Yachting Monthly
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The sea kindly Hallberg-Rassy 352
- Duncan Kent
- January 15, 2021
Hallberg-Rassy is known for its sea-kindly and solid boats. Duncan Kent examines the nuances of the popular Hallberg-Rassy 352
A low, streamline coachroof makes stepping up to the mast safe and simple, although handrails are below knee level. Credit: David Harding
Product Overview
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In her time, the Hallberg-Rassy 352 went a great deal towards affirming the Swedish yard’s reputation for solidly-built cruising yachts.
In addition to having a comfortable interior and practical layout for liveaboards, she was one of the first to incorporate a corridor into a huge aft cabin, removing the need to enter through the cockpit.
Early versions of the 800-plus Hallberg-Rassy 352s launched had poor headroom, especially in the corridor to the aft cabin, but over the following 14 years of production the deck was twice raised to alleviate this problem.
Her hull was hand laid using generous amounts of fibre and resin, and glassed-in longitudinal stringers were incorporated for strength and stiffness.
A taller mast with twin spreaders was offered for owners wanting more sail power. Credit: David Harding
Bulkheads and much of the furniture were also bonded to the hull and deckhead to further improve the rigidity of the structure.
They have a long, encapsulated fin keel containing three tons of cast iron ballast with a cutaway forward to aid tacking and manoeuvring at close quarters.
They also sport a full-depth skeg to support the rudder.
Many 352s were ordered with teak decks, which was the icing on the cake and really enhanced her classic looks.
They do, however, take some upkeep and can look scruffy if left to deteriorate.
Furthermore, renewing them is a mortgage job, unless you happen to be cruising in Taiwan or similar, where both teak and labour are cheap.
Her sidedecks are wide, easy to negotiate and continue right around the boat.
The 352 is reefed at the mast. Credit: Rick Buettner
The Hallberg-Rassy 352 has a low, streamline coachroof, which makes stepping up to the mast safe and simple, but puts the handrails below knee level.
She also has plenty of clear foredeck space for working on gear, headsails, spinnaker handling or setting out the ground tackle.
There is a single bow roller and an above-deck windlass but the anchor chain is fed into a deep, deck-accessible chain locker.
Her cockpit is compact but snug and secure thanks to her fixed windscreen and high coamings.
Stowage is in two half-depth seat lockers and a lazarette aft with a rather small hatch.
Rig, sails & engine
The Hallberg-Rassy 352 had a traditional, but very stout masthead rig with a full complement of oversized standing rigging.
Early models had a relatively conservative sailplan but those who wanted a little more sail power could opt for a taller mast with twin spreaders, though at the expense of having to reef a little earlier in a blow.
She is easy to single-hand with the primary sail controls within easy reach of the wheel.
A clear foredeck means there is plenty of space for working on gear and sails. Credit: David Harding
However, as standard, reefing is done at the mast, unless upgraded.
In some ways this works better as it keeps the small cockpit from being overwhelmed with string and, should you have them, a pair of granny bars at the mast are really useful for stowing spare lines.
She came with a 30hp, freshwater-cooled, three-cylinder Volvo diesel (either the MD21B or post-1985 the 2003T), which had plenty of power to fight a foul tide.
Manoeuvring into tight spots, however, isn’t her strongest suit and requires practice as her long keel, big, barn door-style rudder and copious prop walk conspire to make it interesting, to say the least!
Below decks
When you descend into the 352’s interior on a cold, drizzly day it feels like you’ve entered a log cabin with a big stove crackling away in the corner.
Hardwoods abound, along with matching grained veneers, all of which were so well varnished from day one that many have remained in top condition with just a light routine polish.
The layout is straightforward and somewhat dated, but it’s a practical layout that works well at sea.
There’s a proper seagoing, U-shaped galley immediately to starboard, enabling the watch to brew up without disturbing those sleeping.
The practical layout below deck works well when under way. Credit: Hallberg-Rassy
It’s not huge but stowage is plentiful, mostly in easily accessible lockers, and there’s room for a full-size cooker with oven and grill.
Opposite is a pukka nav station with a forward-facing, Admiralty-sized chart table, a dedicated nav seat and ample space for instruments and chart storage, although early models did lack bookshelves.
The corridor to the aft cabin starts behind the nav area and, in all models requires ducking down to avoid banging your head.
In the corridor itself are a couple of large clothes lockers to supplement the stowage aft.
The aft cabin is roomy and has twin berths, although one is larger than the other and makes a reasonable double.
There’s plenty of room around the large, drop-leaf saloon table to feed six in comfort and the settees, being long and straight, make excellent sea berths with the option of pilot berths above created by the hinged seatbacks and lee cloths.
The heads are forward of the saloon and are a reasonable size with room to shower with the door closed.
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With the saloon door also shut the heads are, for all intents and purposes, en suite to the forecabin, which itself is comfortable with a good-sized vee-berth and bags of stowage in lockers and on the deep shelves.
The Hallberg-Rassy 352 was progressively improved over its years in build, so the later models have nicer galleys, more headroom, louvred locker doors and bigger hatches and skylights.
The same improvements continued on deck too, with more cleats and stowage, plus in-mast reefing and cutter rig options.
A few were even built with a hardtop but not with the normal deck.
Instead they sported a deeper cockpit to create space under the hardtop at the expense of losing the below-deck corridor to the aft cabin, leaving it accessible via the cockpit only.
Duncan Kent is a technical writer for marine publications and websites
I’d class the performance of the Hallberg-Rassy 352 as steady, undramatic and thoroughly sea-kindly.
She’s no racer, especially the early shorter mast model, but is a dogged mile-muncher.
Her generous displacement helps keep average passage times up by her refusal to be knocked off a wave and her full (but not long) keel results in little leeway and superb directional stability.
Furthermore, the deeply vee’d forefoot eliminates any slamming and lends a gentle, soporific rocking motion when beating to windward.
Being a centre-cockpit yacht, visibility under the large genoa is nil.
For this reason, many carry a high-cut, high-aspect Solent jib for busy waters, only resorting to the large overlapping genoa offshore.
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Review of Hallberg-Rassy 352
Basic specs..
The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.
The interior is like many other boats made of mahogany. Mahogany belongs to the hardwood species, known for being water-repellent and resistant to decay. It has an attractive wood grain and holds wood polish and varnish well. The boat is equipped with 6 berths, a galley, 300.0 liter fresh water capacity and toilet facility.
The boat has more than one rig. One option is a masthead rig. The advantage of a masthead rig is its simplicity and the fact that a given sail area - compared with a fractional rig - can be carried lower and thus with less heeling moment.
The Hallberg-Rassy 352 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel.
Hallberg-Rassy 352 can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.68 - 1.78 meter (5.51 - 5.81 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.
The boat is typically equipped with an inboard Volvo Penta MD22 diesel engine
The transmission is a shaft drive. A shaft drive will in the long run require less maintenance than other types of drive e.g. a sail drive.
The fuel tank has a capacity of 240.0 liters (63 US gallons, 52 imperial gallons).
Sailing characteristics
This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.
What is Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed?
The theoretical maximal speed of a displacement boat of this length is 7.2 knots. The term "Theoretical Maximum Hull Speed" is widely used even though a boat can sail faster. The term shall be interpreted as above the theoretical speed a great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed.
The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Hallberg-Rassy 352 is about 198 kg/cm, alternatively 1113 lbs/inch. Meaning: if you load 198 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 1113 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.
Sailing statistics
This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.
What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?
What is a Ballast Ratio?
What is Relative Speed Performance?
Maintenance
When buying anti-fouling bottom paint, it's nice to know how much to buy. The surface of the wet bottom is about 33m 2 (355 ft 2 ). Based on this, your favourite maritime shop can tell you the quantity you need.
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If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
| Mainsail halyard | 33.2 m | (109.1 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Jib/genoa halyard | 33.2 m | (109.1 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Spinnaker halyard | 33.2 m | (109.1 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Jib sheet | 10.6 m | (34.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 10.6 m | (34.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 26.4 m | (86.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 23.3 m | (76.3 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Cunningham | 4.2 m | (13.8 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Kickingstrap | 8.4 m | (27.6 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Clew-outhaul | 8.4 m | (27.6 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Usage | Length | Diameter | ||
| Mainsail halyard | 30.8 m | (101.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Jib/genoa halyard | 30.8 m | (101.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Spinnaker halyard | 30.8 m | (101.0 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Jib sheet | 10.6 m | (34.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Genoa sheet | 10.6 m | (34.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Mainsheet | 26.4 m | (86.7 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Spinnaker sheet | 23.3 m | (76.3 feet) | 14 mm | (0.55 inch) |
| Cunningham | 4.2 m | (13.8 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Kickingstrap | 8.4 m | (27.6 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
| Clew-outhaul | 8.4 m | (27.6 feet) | 12 mm | (1/2 inch) |
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Hallberg-Rassy 352
Hallberg-Rassy 352 is a 34 ′ 8 ″ / 10.6 m monohull sailboat designed by Olle Enderlein and built by Hallberg-Rassy between 1978 and 1991.
Rig and Sails
Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.
The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.
Classic hull speed formula:
Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL
Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL
Sail Area / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.
SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3
- SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
- D : Displacement in pounds.
Ballast / Displacement Ratio
A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.
Ballast / Displacement * 100
Displacement / Length Ratio
A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.
D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
- LWL: Waterline length in feet
Comfort Ratio
This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.
Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )
- D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
- LOA: Length overall in feet
- Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet
Capsize Screening Formula
This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.
CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)
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LENGTH: Traditionally, LOA (length over all) equaled hull length. Today, many builders use LOA to include rail overhangs, bowsprits, etc. and LOD (length on deck) for hull length. That said, LOA may still mean LOD if the builder is being honest and using accepted industry standards developed by groups like the ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council).
802 BOATS IN FOURTEEN YEARS. 802 hulls of the Hallberg-Rassy 352 were built between 1978 -1991. The 352 was from start a substantial sales success. This was the first time a designer had managed to combine, in a 35 foot boat, a walk through to the aft-cabin with spectacularly elegant lines. Hallberg-Rassy 352 offered large-boat characteristics ...
LENGTH: Traditionally, LOA (length over all) equaled hull length. Today, many builders use LOA to include rail overhangs, bowsprits, etc. and LOD (length on deck) for hull length. That said, LOA may still mean LOD if the builder is being honest and using accepted industry standards developed by groups like the ABYC (American Boat and Yacht Council).
Named after 2 buiders: Harry Hallberg and Christoph Rassy who were never partners and were actually competitors until Hallberg's retirement in 1972 when Rassy brought the two operations together. Harry Hallberg, (1914-1997) began his boat building career at the age of 14. In the early 1940's he opened his own yard at Kungsviken on the island of Orust in Sweden. The first boat to be built ...
The 352 is reefed at the mast. Credit: Rick Buettner. The Hallberg-Rassy 352 has a low, streamline coachroof, which makes stepping up to the mast safe and simple, but puts the handrails below knee level. She also has plenty of clear foredeck space for working on gear, headsails, spinnaker handling or setting out the ground tackle.
The Hallberg-Rassy 352 is equipped with a fin keel. The fin keel is the most common keel and provides splendid manoeuvrability. The downside is that it has less directional stability than a long keel. Hallberg-Rassy 352 can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.68 - 1.78 meter (5.51 - 5.81 ft) dependent on the load.
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The Hallberg-Rassy 352 is a 34'7" (10.54m) cruising sailboat designed by Christoph Rassy (Germany) and Olle Enderlein (Sweden). She was built between 1978 and 1991 by Hallberg-Rassy (Sweden) with 802 hulls completed. Hallberg-Rassy 352's main features. Model. Hallberg-Rassy 352. Hull type. Monohull.
The Hallberg rassy 352 is a 34.75ft masthead sloop designed by Christoph Rassy / Olle Enderlein and built in fiberglass by Hallberg Rassy between 1978 and 1991. ... The data on this page has been derived from different sources but a significant part is attributed to sailboatdata.com. We thank them for their encouragements and friendly ...
Hallberg-Rassy 352. Number of hulls built. 802. Rudder. Single rudder on skeg. Sailboat builder. Hallberg-Rassy. Sailboat designer. Christoph RassyOlle Enderlein. Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
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Hallberg-Rassy 352: Brief Notes: Builder: Hallberg-Rassy Varvs AB, Sweden: Length OA: 34' 9" Sail Area: 549 sq ft : The Halberg-Rassy 352 is a very well regarded offshore and ocean cruising yacht, with centre cockpit, a comfortable interior with walk through access to the aft cabin, and good sailing ability.
Engine and shaft carefully aligned and rubber suspended, shaft bearing. Cutlass water lubricated rubber bearing. "Wet" exhaustline in rubber with water lock and efective rubber silencer. Two built in fuel tanks 150 + 90 l (tot. app. 63 US gallons) with separate pump for draining eventual water or sludge. Water tank 300 litres (app. 86 US ...
Hallberg-Rassy 352 Parts : Beam Width: 3.38 Meters / (11 feet and 1 inch) Detailed Specifications. Hull Type and Design: Undefined : Gas Tank Size: 58.12 gal / (220 liters) Features And Equipments. Engine And Mechanical Specs. 21.0 hp: Deck Hardware. Anchor: true: Hallberg-Rassy 352. More 352 models.
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Built by Hallberg-Rassy and designed by Olle Enderlein, the boat was first built in 1978. It has a hull type of Fin with rudder on skeg and LOA is 10.59. Its sail area/displacement ratio 16.01. Its auxiliary power tank, manufactured by Volvo Penta, runs on Diesel. HALLBERG-RASSY 352 has retained its value as a result of superior building, a ...
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