Harry Hallberg

Harry Hallberg (* 1914 ; † 1997 ) was a Swedish shipbuilder and owner of Harry Hallberg's shipbuilding industry , which became Hallberg-Rassy through a takeover in 1972 .

Life

At the age of 14, the young Harry Hallberg constructed his first boat and began building his own shipyard in 1943 in Kungsviken , which is located on the island of Orust, west of Sweden . The first series-built ships after a few improvised one- offs were named Folkeboot and Kungskryssaren . In 1963 Hallberg was one of the first yacht builders to follow the trend towards hulls made of wood with an outer shell made of glass fiber reinforced plastic ; this technology was first used in the P-28 drawn by Harry Hallberg himself , which he sold 550 times, mainly in Sweden and North America.

In the mid-1960s, Harry Hallberg expanded in Ellös to the south, also on Orust, and sold the old shipyard building to Christoph Rassy , who in 1972 also took over Harry Hallberg's shipyard industry and renamed it Hallberg-Rassy .

Web links

• sailboatdata.com: Harry Hallberg (English)