About

It started with “La Vela”

In 2008 Lars Hendriksen became the owner of a Hallberg-Rassy 342 and christened her “La Vela”. He was smitten with the boat – and quickly missed something: a place to meet other Hallberg-Rassy owners, share knowledge, swap stories and learn from their experience.

That search for a crew became HR-Club. What began as one owner’s project is today a worldwide community of skippers, crews and people still dreaming of their first HR.

What the club is

A home for the boats and the people who sail them. As a member you can:

  • Register your boat and tell her story, with photos, video, engine, sails and equipment
  • Keep a ship’s log of upgrades, maintenance and voyages
  • Find sister ships, their owners and their home ports around the world
  • Look up every model in the catalogue
  • Put your HR up for sale on the boat market, among buyers who already know what she is
  • Join as a “hangaround” if you don’t own an HR yet

Membership is free.

Where the club is run from

HR-Club is run from Værftet (“The Yard”), a transformed old boatyard in Køge, south of Copenhagen, where boats were once built and repaired. Today it is an office community for some twenty freelancers – and the home port of a small team of three who develop and look after the site.

Værftet – the old boatyard in Køge where HR-Club is run from.

Part of a bigger fleet

HR-Club is the flagship of Boat-Clubs.net, a family of online communities for owners of other boat brands. For quick answers to any boat question, the same team built BoatBuddy.ai, an AI assistant that knows boats.

Every boat added, every photo shared and every connection made between sailors proves the idea from 2008 right: the best part of owning a Hallberg-Rassy is the people you meet along the way.