Hallberg-Rassy 38

Design

Designer

Olle Enderlein

Summary

Best Suited For

• Short-Handed

  From the published figures: hull length 11.57 m · upwind 60.5 m²

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

—

Hull length

38 ft (11.57 m)

LWL

31.2 ft (9.5 m)

Beam

11.4 ft (3.48 m)

Draft (min)

5.7 ft (1.75 m)

Draft (max)

5.7 ft (1.75 m)

Air draft

45.9 ft (14 m)

Displacement

18,739 lb (8,500 kg)

Ballast

8,157 lb (3,700 kg)

Cabins

2

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

651 ft² (60.5 m²)

Genoa

827 ft² (76.8 m²)

Sail area

651 ft² (60.5 m²)

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

55 hp (Volvo Penta)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Volvo Penta

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

92 gal (350 L)

Fresh water capacity

106 gal (400 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

solid fiberglass

Deck material

—

Keel type

Incapsulated iron in deep bilge

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Number of cylinders

4

Headroom saloon

1.85 m

Transport height without windscreen

3.71 m

Sail area basis

sail area with jib as printed; with genoa 76.8 m2

Layouts & Drawings

2 drawings from the builder's page: general arrangement, sail plan, profile.

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  Hr38 sail plan449 7 — Hallberg-Rassy

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  Hr38 sail plan — Hallberg-Rassy

Brochure

About Hallberg-Rassy

Premium production

Swedish builder of bluewater cruising sailboats, based in Ellös and formed in 1972, when the Rassy yard took over that of Harry Hallberg (founded in 1943), and still 100% family-owned.

Hallberg-Rassy began as two yards. Harry Hallberg opened his own wooden-boat yard at Kungsviken on the island of Orust in 1943, built the Folkboat and the Kungskryssaren in series, and in 1963 was among the first to build sailing boats in GRP in series -- his P-28, most of its first hundred sold to the USA, was the yard's early export success. Christoph Rassy arrived from Bavaria in 1960, bought the old Hallberg yard at Kungsviken when Hallberg moved to Ellös in the mid-1960s, and in 1966 launched the Rasmus 35, a pioneering long-distance cruiser with a centre cockpit behind a windshield -- the arrangement the yard has kept ever since. When Harry Hallberg retired in 1972 the Rassy yard bought the Ellös premises and the two names merged into Hallberg-Rassy; the first new design under that name, the Monsun 31, became the bestseller with 904 built by 1982. Germán Frers has drawn every model since 1988. The yard is still in Ellös and still family-owned.

The Hallberg-Rassy Range

Every model Hallberg-Rassy publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. Hallberg-Rassy 39 Mk IIDiscontinued40.1 ft
2. Hallberg-Rassy 37039.8 ft
3. Hallberg-Rassy 39 Mk IDiscontinued38.9 ft
4. Hallberg-Rassy 382Discontinued38.1 ft
5. Hallberg-Rassy 38· this modelDiscontinued38 ft
6. Hallberg-Rassy 372Discontinued37.2 ft
7. Hallberg-Rassy 37Discontinued37.1 ft
8. Hallberg-Rassy 34035.9 ft
9. Hallberg-Rassy 36Discontinued35.7 ft

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