Hans Christian - Is This The Best Cruising Boat - Ep 171 - Lady K Sailing

HC 38T(traditional) Telstar owner here. The Telstar is a Harwood Ives design. It has a cut away forefoot and a skeg hung rudder rather than the keel hung rudder. Boat is 28,700 lbs empty. My Telstar is the last one built in 1989. I love my huge butterfly hatch. It sails really well. One downside of the boats coming out of those yards in the day is the hull osmosis blistering. I'm currently in the yard in La Paz, Mexico having it addressed.

Great videos...well researched and presented! Have you considered doing a piece on Mirage yachts? Bob Perry and Dick Steffan are a great source of information, and nice folks. I have a Mirage 33 and Bob has been a great help to me over the years.

Valiant 40 ,.

No room inside

What is the market value of a Hans Christian 33? I am thinking about retiring early and purchasing a live aboard for cruising.

Their common problem is that they are slow. Quite slow.

i would absolutely die for an episode specifically about the Hans Christian 33! Great vid!

Is a 64 jeanneau good bluewater sailboat? Does it track well on water?

Hans down, a beautiful sailing boat.......

Funny you show a Bristol channel cutter in the opening. Everything else is a glorified Westsail 😎

My favorite boat ever, too much teak to maintain it would drive me crazy 😂

Didn't realize this was mostly a video with some guy talking.

Good video.

Nice if you like canoes not so much if you don't want a canoe as a sailboat

So love the history you share.

My dream boat.

Oh hey Sazerac is in my marina!

Very cool video.

The 33t is my dream boat❤❤

I came to hear about the 33, 38t/38mk ii/43 etc. Now I'm waiting with my popcorn for that episode.

Great stuff, I have the mini-HC,,,,A, 37 Tayana Pilot house. Imho many of the things mentioned also apply to the 37 Tayana, good and bad. Of course, Iam blinded by love for my boat. Appreciate all your work to put out really informative content, I meet people who have the cruising bug, and ask which boat to get to sail the world, I tell them a Catalina 27 30, or similar. go have fun learn, live aboard, that boat will teach you everything a larger cruising boat will, at a fraction of the cost. After a while, and you will know when, sell the boat, and get your dream boat. Just my 2 cents, again thanks. Cheers, Pops fl.

Thank you for this. As a 6'6" tall guy, how's the headroom in the HC line of 38-45 foot boats? I'm having a difficult time figuring out where I can stand and where I can't on some of the sailboats. I understand the arguments about this being a concern. But, after enough time on various sailboats and spending time in the galley or hustling up and down the helm to forward cabin I grow tired of always being hunched over. Does HC have 6'8" plus of clearance? Do you recall?

Just fuckin get on with the video......... all these balloons think they;re Hollywood stars ffs,

Can you make a video on the Hans Christian 33?

I think as a sailor with a few years studying sail boats I have always believed that the use of plywood is NOT a great idea in sandwich construction ! After a few years they ALL TURN CHEESY , unless a very strict standard of maintenance is followed !

Give-and-take with every boat more I I learn about the old boats the more I want to sell my bleach bottle boat!

No full keel poor handing pig that come in 10,000 pounds over design specs and are fitted out with inferior, cheap, and dangerous gear should be recommended to modern sailors. Fin keel boats in fact far outperform boats like this in all conditions. Just cause its not a full long keel does not make a boat like this better than anything else with a fin keel. The last 150 years of marine science has improved what can be done by a lot.r. I would like to see a boat like this try to sail up Lake Huron into a North Easter generating 27 to 28 foot seas like we had in the 1979 Single Handed Pt. Huron to Mack, on a lee shore where you could not heave to. Oh, I did when I sailed in it. Modern fin keelers did well, and full keel things of this genre, not so much. I do not mind you expressing your opinions, but suggesting as you so often do that reasonable built modern designs cannot arrive safely and that a pig of a sailor will not is as irresponsible as suggesting all of us should sail replicas of the Spray because Slocum documented a circumnavigation to stay safe. What ever did happen to Joshua? Funny, no one suggests that piece of shit boat of his could have been lost and even he could not prevent it.

Hi i love the lines of the Hans Christian but the prices are out of my league, can you recommend something of similar design and displacement.

Nicely done! 🤙🤙

Doesn't get any better than this.......My "dream boat"....

Not if you know anything about yacht construction- sorry their plumbing. electrical. stainless and fiberglass layup where questionable, many have osmosis. Etc etc

Great video and insights.

I would love to see your review of the Hans Christian 33, 38, 41, 43 and 48. Those are beautiful boats, but of course, like all boats, they have their pros and cons.

Hello, very interesting and informative channel, but I wanted to ask, do you know what the hull of the Hans Christian 38 boat is made of, is there a balsa sandwich there?

was looking to buy one of the mentioned boats - Tayana - Union - Hans Christian -Cheoy Lee -but found a great deal on DownEaster 38 which some argue is comparable to a Westsail , would love to hear your review on Downeaster !

hey??? what on Gods good earth is wrong with liquid cocaine?

My dad has a Baba 30. I takes more than a quick look to tell the difference between all those designed boats. All very similar….all very rugged…all sail better than they really should.

I was on my buddies Union 36. It was agonizingly slow, but comfy.

The worse sailboats to maintain. The poorer woodwork ever seen. Too slow for cruising, too heavy.

As a kid in the 70’s I fell in love with the Hand Christian.

Very nice episode.

I visited the Hans Christian yard last week in Thailand.
Of course the yard had the drop the HC line back in 2015 ( the last 41t was shipped out then) they built amazing catamarans now. (personally it not my thing but it keeps the yard working)

Great video. Re comments from many about speed, I would accept they are certainly not the fastest. However, have just sailed my 41T from Cape Verde to Grenada solo. Sailed conservatively, was very comfortable and took 18 days.

Hey

Can you please do a video on the chinook 34 1956ish to like 1972 I have one and there isn't much online about them. I have haul #8
Thanks 😊

Beautiful boats

Have a look at the Alajuela 38 please.

How about young sun and the baba boats. Also Taiwan build wirh a rain forrest of teak. Do they also are part of this saga? Boats to fall in love with, right?

Looking forward to the HC 33 video!

Wish o could have one ❤