Dick Bolk Joins Hall Team as Managing Director at BV

Broadly experienced in engineering, manufacturing and operations, Hall is pleased to announce the appointment of Dick Bolk as Managing Director at Hall BV in Breskens, NL. "I am very excited to join the Hall team," he said, "I look forward to maintaining and improving the wonderful high-quality products we manufacture." Mr. Bolk lives in Sint Maartensdijk, Holland with his wife Caroline. They have five children and share a passion for sailing.

Hall Yachts Shine at Superyacht Cup in Palma

Hall-rigged Baltic 108 WinWin claimed overall victory at the 2016 Superyacht cup in Palma, in what Captain Clive Walker referred to as a "win-win situation." Walker and his team had previously won the 2010 Superyacht Cup in another Hall-rigged yacht, Jongert 29m Scorpione dei Mari.

Hall BV’s Sven Coster, Pieter Brinkman and Andre Vermeulen were part of the 20-person crew on board Tempus Fugit (pictured above) as the Humphreys designed 90 classic sloop sailed to a Class C victory and second overall.



Oyster 885 Firebird, also a Humphreys design, earned second place in Class C at only her second regatta. Heartbeat, a Hoek 78 Truly Classic, scored third as Hall-rigged yachts swept the Class C podium.

Tripp 62 Launches with Hall Spars

Phil Garland, David Moffet and Lars Svenstrup of the Hall US service team (pictured below) were all hands on deck at New England Boatworks last week for the launch of Tripp 62 café racer Chessie Racing. The yacht is equipped with a high modulus carbon racing mast built at the Hall US facility in Bristol, RI, and Oceanfurl Boom manufactured at Hall NZ in Auckland. The vessel will be based in southern New England for the summer, starting off at the Ida Lewis Distance Race out of Newport, RI, before heading to Fisher Island, Florida for the winter racing circuit.

 

Hall NZ Team at Sydney International Boat Show

Garry Hassall, Dave Ridley and Ron Jacobs from the team at Hall New Zealand will be on hand at the Sydney International Boat Show - Cockle Bay Marina in Darling Harbour and Sydney Exhibition Centre at Glebe Island, Sydney, Australia. The show takes place from 28 July through 1 August.

Hall World Service Now Hiring

SERVICE TECHNICIAN

Hall, Inc. is seeking an experienced Service Technician for its Bristol, RI, USA location. Responsibilities include:

• Field requests for billable service & warranty repairs
• Perform repairs on masts, booms, poles, rigging & vangs wherever possible
• Perform rig and rigging inspections, to include: visual inspections of mast & rigging
• Rig and dress spars in-house and in the field
• Provide documentation of warranty issues so they can be addressed by engineering and/or production on future rigs
• Assist with assembly of vangs, pole ends, spinnaker poles and booms in final assembly when requited by the Production Manager

Please send CV to i.bowen@hallspars.com  

Hall Consistency the Key in Sydney-Hobart

The 2015 Sydney-Hobart race was a good test for Hall products, both new and "seasoned."

Comanche  © Rolex/Daniel Forster

Line Honours went to owners Jim Clark & Kristy Hinze-Clark and skipper Ken Read, as 100-foot supermaxi Comanche crossed the mark in 2 days, 8 hours, 58 minutes and 30 seconds, despite having suffered significant damage from a submerged object en-route to the finish. Hall supplied two key assemblies for Comanche, both having to be 100% reliable in this especially tough race. First was Comanche's monolithic keel ram box. Due to its enormous size and stringent strength requirements, Hall was commissioned to build the keel ram box and cure it in their aerospace-grade autoclave. For the same reasons, Hall was tapped to build the yacht's ultra-strong bowsprit, on which its highly-loaded reaching headsails depend.

Balance  © Rolex/Stefano Gattini

Overall victory at Sydney-Hobart went to TP52 Balance, equipped with a 2004 Hall carbon rig. With this Hobart proving to be one of the roughest on record, the conditions proved a severe test for the "old" rig. Despite its many years of service, the rig came through with flying colors at the top of the podium - a clear testament to Hall's consistency and quality. Hall Spars & Rigging has over 35 years of experience building and maintaining the world's most innovative and high-performance rigs. With three complete manufacturing centers on three continents, Hall pioneered the combination of autoclave curing and Seamless carbon construction.

Special Delivery to Nautor's Swan

Just in time for the holidays, Hall BV in Breskens has shipped over 100m of mast tubes to Nautor's Swan - one for the Swan 68 and another for the Swan 115. Stay tuned for updates!