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by Oana April 19, 2021
Our Boat

Cloudy Bay is a Hallberg-Rassy 54 launched in Sweden in 2008. She is hull 21, out of 44 built. The design is by Germán Frers. Hallberg-Rassy 54 is a dedicated blue-water cruiser, built to stand against the worst weather conditions, but also to live in.

Why we love her? 

She is one of the finest built cruising sailboats in the world! The center cockpit is comfortable, feels very safe and sheltered. The woodwork is exceptional, making the teak interior very elegant. We liked the layout with a master aft cabin, and a very generous guests cabin in front of the mast with a double berth. The walk-in engine room is a real man’s-cave, any sailor’s dream. The floor is in one level throughout the boat, which provides easy movement throughout the boat even in choppy seas.
To begin with, we felt very much overwhelmed with the size of the boat and the rig. But now, we feel in control over such an impressive yacht. And we know she will take us anywhere, in any weather. That’s a nice feeling of security.

Why named her Cloudy Bay? Derek, the previous owner, named her after the famous New Zealander wine. We liked the name, and kept it as such.

Hallberg-Rassy 54 basic stats: 
Hull length                  16.74 m   54’ 11’’
Waterline at rest          14.30 m   46’ 11’’
Beam                            4.70 m    15’ 5’’
Draught                        2.30 m     7’ 6 1/2’’*
Displacement               26.3 t      58 000 lbs
Lead keel                      9.75 t      21 500 lbs
Sail area with genoa    175.5 m²  1 890 ft2
Engine Volvo Penta      180HP
Mast over water            24.50 m     80’ 5’’

The full specifications are here.

Interior walk-through video here.

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11 comments

Glen April 20, 2021 - 7:29 am

s/v Cloudy Bay is registered in Gibraltar, UK.

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Andrej Marinic May 3, 2021 - 3:35 pm

Just out of curiosity, why Gibraltar?

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Glen May 4, 2021 - 6:47 pm

Tax reasons, Andrej. The boat had not had EU VAT paid when new, so it had to be registered outside EU VAT zone, which Gibraltar is. (So are the Spanish Canary Islands too, by the way, but we didn’t want to be based there given our first 2 years were cruising the Med.)

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Tony May 10, 2021 - 3:10 am

Wife I Love your videos and your sense of humor, the only sailing channel where the wife doesn’t show azzz in a dental floss to the world, hard to find people like you guys these days, keep up the good work.

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David Pearson October 17, 2021 - 9:54 am

Hi,
Firstly, great YouTube site, which makes for addictive viewing in the off-season!
I have just watched the Parasailor video and noticed Cloudy Bays bowsprit. Please can you help me? I am looking to fit a bowsprit to my Beneteau 42cc., but my challenges are the closeness of the anchor locker to the bow, and high gunwales.
However, Cloudy Bay’s bowsprit appears to have met those challenges. Please can you advise the manufacture or did you have the bowsprit manufactured? If the latter, please can you advise the dimensions (diameter, length, and distance between the two fixing points, plus the distance from the second fixing point to the forward end.
Your answers will be a big help in solving my problem.
Kind regards
David

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Glen November 16, 2021 - 11:16 am

David, we had it made in Almerimar, Spain by Arcglow. Its made from an old 50mm propshaft and bent to follow our stainless steel stem fitting. It is 1.5m long and fixed at the inboard end and mid point.
Sorry for the late reply

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Chip Norton December 2, 2021 - 8:51 pm

Hey Glen- great updates and glad to see you back in the water. You may have covered this is past updates- do you use a cellular booster on board for local connections when not offshore?

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Glen December 4, 2021 - 3:31 pm

Hi Chip,
No, we dont have a cellular booster. we find our phones connect just fine, even sometimes 10-15 miles off shore. We do have a WiFi booster though, which is super good. We can get WiFi signals at anchor that our phones cannot even see.

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René Lykkeberg January 4, 2022 - 11:20 am

Glen , you are a great craftsman !!! and paitiend to.

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Shawn Bootsma February 4, 2022 - 9:35 pm

Glen and Oana,
Thank you so much for sharing a part of your work and adventures! I concur with so many others: Your craftsmanship, humor, humility, and sense of adventure are precisely what makes your channel superior to all others! You both are a wonderful inspiration!

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Paul Athens March 24, 2022 - 6:53 pm

Glen, I really enjoy your YouTube channel and have ambitions of making many of the same passages aboard my Moody 425. Aside from your adventures themselves, one stand-out is the cockpit enclosure which fits beneath your bimini. I’m in the process of designing something similar and have many screen grabs from your channel of the design. I am hoping you might be able to share some more details, particularly the fastening system aft, as well as how the strataglass window panels fir from the inside..

Many thanks!

Paul Athens
S/V Hellbound NYC, USA

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