Care to share your Hans Christian Video?

[sv_duchess]

I wish there were more videos of HCs on YouTube, or maybe I'm just not finding them. Care to post a video link here? Here's mine,
http://youtu.be/_nKJhI1vTEM. I shot it over the Labor Day weekend. Thanks!

[lonesome_boatman]

Hi great video. Duchess is really letting steaming along. A question, I noticed in the first part of the Video that the whisker stays have some slack in them. On Respite there is no slack in the whisker stays or the Bobstay at all. Maybe I have some tensioned up too much. I will have to get some Video up of Respite sailing as well.

[bramfam]

SV_duchess, I'll be doing a passage soon in Dragonquest and hope to capture some video then.

[numberfool]

[hollos02]

Here's a short video of our maiden voyage on Fair Isle. It was a weeks voyage up through the Markermeer ands Ijslemeer in Holland and the a 36 hour crossing of the North sea to Ipswich in Suffolk England. We had good sailing weather and were very pleased with how Fair Isle performed.

https://vimeo.com/219532078

Steve
Han Christian 48T

[numberfool]

Steve,

Fantastic video and boat. Love the hard dodger.

Any details on the boat? Looks like a newer build.

Thanks

Wayne

S/V Straban
HC 43T

[hollos02]

Hi Wayne, thanks for the complements. In fact that's one of the things it seems you really need to get used to as a Hans Christian owner, every port we go into there's a succession of people wanting to come and talk about the boat, and many shouts of 'she's beautiful' across the harbour (I tell my wife they're talking about her!)
People coming over in new ports is actually brilliant as you don't have to go searching for people to get local information, in fact one guy in the marina we just left went away and worked out a whole voyage plan for me to make the best of the tides and get our 2meter draft through the passages between the off shore sand banks that make transiting down the East coast a bit tricky here.

As regards the boat, she's a standard version c2001 out of the yard, but came into what was then the European dealer in Holland as she was destined for a German owner. They did the final fit out, rigging etc. And also built the hard dodger. We call it a dog house, it's actually quite large, gives you half the cockpit completely protected, forward of the wheel. Personally I think it's one of the best things about the boat, it makes life very comfortable, even on this trip on a resnably warm summer passage there were many times we hit the auto helm button just because it was nicer to sit in the comfort of the dog house rather tan get blown about at the helm!

Also I don't quite know how you manage the main sail without it, we have the nice easy stack system that most people favour these days, but even that requires a bit of sail sorting and zipping up into the bag, all of which is easy done by standing on the dog house roof. As you can see from the pics. I've also put a solar panel up there, one of the flexible ones you can stand on. It gets some shading from the boom, but still performs well and doesn't get in the way and clutter the place up the way some rail mounted ones can.

Steve

Fair Isle
Hans Christian 48t

[soul balladeer]

Here is our video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nlgqHXGTfI&t=32s

[clonjers]

You are going to get a speeding ticket.

[soul balladeer]

She was stretching her legs. Lots of fun.

[andyv94]

Great videos by everybody!!

https://youtu.be/SW5VrOhJ3n8

[olywadan]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOv1ChrjRG7/

It's short it gets the job done. Might require Instagram? Any other boats on instagram?

[andyv94]

I'm on Instagram under andyv94 and sv_gitana

[numberfool]

Some of our young crew started an instagram account for our boat.
Account name is LifeInAPirateShip

https://instagram.com/p/BJ1C5urDo2k/

[bramfam]