Hallberg-Rassy 53

Design

Designer

Germán Frers

Naval architect

Germán Frers

Summary

Best Suited For

• Bluewater Cruising

  From the published figures: CE Category A · hull length 16.44 m · fresh water 1020 L

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: hull length 16.44 m · 3 cabins · fresh water 1020 L

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

53.9 ft (16.44 m)

LWL

43.8 ft (13.35 m)

Beam

15.2 ft (4.64 m)

Draft (min)

6.5 ft (1.99 m)

Draft (max)

7.5 ft (2.29 m)

Air draft

73.5 ft (22.4 m)

Displacement

50,706 lb (23,000 kg)

Ballast

19,842 lb (9,000 kg)

Cabins

3

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

—

Jib

1,410 ft² (131 m²)

Genoa

1,593 ft² (148 m²)

Sail area

1,410 ft² (131 m²)

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

110–145 hp (Volvo Penta)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Volvo Penta

Propulsion type

—

Fuel capacity

225 gal (850 L)

Fresh water capacity

269 gal (1,020 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

—

Deck material

—

Keel type

Bulbed lead keel on deep bilge

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Builder's Own Figures

Headroom saloon

2.04 m

J

6.1 m

I

20.8 m

E

6.3 m

P

18.4 m

Sail area basis

sail area with jib as printed; with genoa 148 m2

Layouts & Drawings

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

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  Hallberg rassy53 sail plan — Hallberg-Rassy

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  Hallberg rassy53 side viewinterior — 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 62Discontinued61.9 ft
2. Hallberg-Rassy 5760.5 ft
3. Hallberg-Rassy 54Discontinued54.9 ft
4. Hallberg-Rassy 55Discontinued54.7 ft
5. Hallberg-Rassy 53· this modelDiscontinued53.9 ft
6. Hallberg-Rassy 5053.6 ft
7. Hallberg-Rassy 48 Mk IDiscontinued49.2 ft
8. Hallberg-Rassy 48 Mk IIDiscontinued49.2 ft
9. Hallberg-Rassy 49Discontinued49.1 ft

By the Same Designers

Boats this boat's designers also drew, for other builders too. Credits are grouped only where the names clearly agree, however each builder spelled them; an unclear one is left out.

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