Thread: Yachts

Originally Posted by Jamo

(PS Win lotto and it's a Hallberg-Rassy!)

While in the Percy’s mid year - we met a US couple sailing the world in a Hallberg-Rassy 53, what a boat – fitout and finish far superior to any private boat I’ve seen. What are they worth - me think I might need more than one Lotto!!!

They had sailed from Chile across to Fiji via Pitcairn, French Polynesia, Cook Is, & Tonga. Then from Fiji to Brisbane (for servicing) via New Cal. Unbelievable stories and experiences to be told. We last saw them in Whitsundays heading for Indo and eventually Thialand. What an adventure.

Hi Ramo, My experiance of the SS 34 is they area great boat built well and have a pretty sea kindly manner, don't mean to affend the guy with the martzcraft but they are a pig with the wind behind the beam, they do have more room but if crossing oceans you are better of being comfortable by a better motion. Dad my brother and I we sailed from Port Stephens to the Kepple Islands in a Pahi 31 wharram cat that dad built was a great trip. On that trip we meet a couple with a SS34 it was called Lion Heart, it was the boat that Jesse Martin bought a couple of years later. I was bought up on mono's but then dad built the cat and have loved cruising multi's ever since, I sailed up and down the east coast afew times now on different size cats and sailed to NZ on a 37ft proa, we stopped at Lord Howe took us 24hrs from Scarbough harbour near Brisbane we waited for 2 days for the next system to come and took of we made it into the Bay of Islands in NZ but there was a 45ft mono who got the s*#t knocked out of them because they didn't beat the weather change and they didn't stop to enjoy Lord Howe. Some people don't feel safe in multi's or just don't like the idea of them but from my experiance they are great mind you they can be expansive just like those crap french boats like you said compromized for accomadation. shouldn't go wrong with an SS though have you looked at any Cole designs (peter cole) they are pretty good as well.

W e found this one in Penrose State Forest