In my anchor locker, there is a plywood floor halfway along the bottom to prevent mooring lines from sinking too deeply. After more than 10 years, the floor had become very waterlogged and rotted due to cracks in the topcoat. and rotted away. Holes were appearing. The hardwood support slats glued to the hull had […]
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A few points of attention for the fuel tanks and the fuel for the winter. With the current addition of bio-Fame to diesel, at least 7%, it is better not to fill the tanks during the winter period. The diesel with this addition will separate after about two months, the bio-Fame part will sink to […]
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It sometimes happens that the temperature sensor in the log gives an incorrect value. Perhaps not the most important piece of information on board, but we like it when all instruments give correct values. In our case, the gauge had been indicating a temperature of over 50 ˚C for a while. You could almost make […]
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As most of you know, I like to sail in the winter. And because I do like winter sailing, but not the cold in the morning and evening, I like to use my hot air heating. And it effortlessly heats up my HR36 ‘Kendu’. So it was a big disappointment when recently the heater started […]
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Frank from HR36 MkII ‘Vertigo’ has mapped out a nice job. A job that more owners might want to do because of the craquelé that sometimes occurs and hatches and portholes. In the photo report Frank shows step by step how he did it, with a fantastic result! On many boats from the beginning of […]
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After a nightly summer storm at anchor in Schelphoek we had a lot of trouble lifting the anchor. During the storm there was 50 meters of chain out, with a snubber line of 10 meters. During gusts of wind up to 58 knots our anchor was stuck. Through the VHF we heard emergency calls from […]
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subsituted for On the Hallberg-Rassy models 31 to 43 HR on deck and cabin supplies two different fans: The round stainless steel ones, usually on the foredeck and/or the aft cabin and the dorade boxes. The latter are available in 2 sizes. A small format with a tube diameter of […]
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During our voyages at sea we found out that our HR 48 Indian Summer had some slack in the bracket of the attachment of the downstand to the boom. The Seaquest also a HR 48 had noticed this during their Altantic crossing as well. Also, the bolts can rattle out so that the whole bracket […]
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You do not have to be involved with a refit of your own HR to find this site interesting. It is not a problem if you have a different HR than a 312 MK I …. This site is really interesting for the do-it-yourselfers amongst us. On sea4see.org you can follow the total refit of HR312 […]
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If you own an already older Hallberg-Rassy, then you will probably recognize this: missing plugs in your teak deck that make screw heads visible. Does not look beautiful at all and risk for a potential leakage. Fortunately, these beauty flaws are easy to repair. Everyone is able to do so, provided you use the right […]
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Eén van je ergste nachtmerries; je vaart op een brug af en je slaat rustig achteruit waarna de boot harder vooruit gaat….
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