Hallberg-Rassy 57

Latest generation Hallberg-Rassy 57 from 2023, configured specifically for circumnavigation duties and benefitting from one of the most complete cruising inventories we have seen. A very special yacht, now available for immediate delivery.

FURTHER BROKER’S COMMENTS:

Delivered new in her present owner in June 2023, SALTAIR is hull No.14 of the latest-generation Hallberg-Rassy 57 design from German Frers. Configured and customised specifically for a planned circumnavigation, SALTAIR benefits from in excess of Euro 800,000 in factory and optional fitment equipment.

After taking delivery at the Hallberg-Rassy factory in the summer of 2023, her owners enjoyed the summer cruising within European waters before crossing the Atlantic with the ARC and spending the winter of 2023/24 in the Caribbean before cruising in US waters during the later part of 2024. 2025 saw final preparations made for the circumnavigation and participation in the World ARC 2025, taking SALTAIR southwards, through the Panama Canal, Galapagos, Marqueses, French Polynesia, Fiji, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand, Reunion, South Africa (Cape Town), Brazil , and finally back to the Caribbean in the Spring of 2026.

Exceptionally well-equipped for serious bluewater cruising, SALTAIR also carries a comprehensive inventory of spare parts and tools. Her specification highlights include:-
• 3-cabin, 2-heads interior layout with European oak interior joinery
• Teak laid side decks and cockpit
• Standard draft 2.43m lead keel with twin rudders
• Volvo Penta D4-175 engine with shaft drive, Gori 3-bladed propeller
• Sleipner retractable variable speed bow and stern thrusters
• 220vAC 50Hz/60Hz global shore power system – providing domestic 220vAC 50Hz supply via inverters, allowing the vessel to operate fully regardless of 50Hz or 60Hz shorepower input
• Onan 17.5kw diesel generator
• Upgraded large Mastervolt Lithium battery package with 60kWh of battery storage
• 2x Mastervolt 4kw inverters
• Solar panel arrays with MPPT charge controller
• Spectra Newport 1000c 24vDC 155lph reverse-osmosis watermaker with Z-Ion system
• SEA.AI Optical and thermal imaging-based collision avoidance system, integrated with Raymarine system
• Raymarine instrument package with Axiom plotters at both helm pedestals, companionway chart table area and lower chart table
• Raymarine Quantum Q24C doppler radar
• Raymarine p70 autopilot with two independent drive systems for redundancy - dual linear drives and Whitlock rotary drive, each with its own drive controller.
• Raymarine AIS700 Class-B AIS transponder
• Icom IC-M803 SSB with insulated backstay antenna
• Iridium GO satellite communications
• YB tracker
• Starlink
• Miele electric galley with induction and combination oven/microwave
• Isotherm water-cooled fridges and freezers
• Extended refrigeration plus icemaker
• Preparation for dishwasher
• 7kgs washing machine/dryer
• Dometic 50/60Hz reverse-cycle air-conditioning system
• Dual Webasto EVO 40 diesel heating systems
• Heated towel rails in bathrooms
• 24vDC ventilation fans
• 50” TV in saloon on lift
• Fusion entertainment system
• Selden rig with full-push button hydraulic in-mast furling and hydraulic outhaul
• Selden electric furling genoa and hydraulic furling staysail
• Reckmann hydraulic Code Zero furler
• Hydraulic main and genoa halyard tensioners
• Carbon spinnaker pole
• Elvstrom Sails Hydranet Radial mainsail, genoa and staysail – September 2025
• Elvstrom Sails furling Bluewater Runner twin furling downwind sail and Code 0
• Upgraded Lewmar electric winch package
• Electric opening bathing platform with aft stowage garage
• Simpson 300kgs electric davits with Highfield 3.60m tender and Tohatsu 20hp outboard
• Nardi Diving Hookah Extreme 230V Compressor

Having now completed their circumnavigation, the time has come to move on to land-based projects, so SALTAIR is offered for sale in full cruising commission and further benefits from recent upgraded sails and replaced standing rigging, resetting the clock on the rig and ensuring that SALTAIR is 100% ready to go around the world again without need of downtime and refit.

NOTE: SALTAIR is US-registered and US taxes paid. She is EU CE-Certified and carries 220vAC 50Hz electrics with an additional 220vAC 50Hz and 110vAC 60Hz global shore power system to ensure she can operate without limitation within the US, European waters and worldwide.

OWNER’S COMMENTS:

We have been racing sailboats for most of our adult life while at the same time, taking every opportunity to cruise in interesting destinations. We started seriously discussing a family circumnavigation with our middle-school age son during COVID and we quickly honed in on Hallberg-Rassy due to their sea-kindly and safe center cockpit designs and their reputation for build quality and timely delivery. We selected the HR57 because of its exceptional passage-making capabilities as well as its massive deck storage, which gave us ample room for multiple downwind sails plus kayaks, SUPs and wing foiling gear. We also appreciated its highly responsive steering feel, which was important to us given our yacht racing background.

We were thoughtful as to our bluewater passage making plans when we designed the boat. We opted for a split berth in the forward cabin that would easily accommodate either two single crew or a couple. Our son’s cabin has a bunk setup with a double berth at the bottom and a single above, providing him options for sleepovers and ample space to store toys. And in the main salon, we opted for a port-side settee to provide the option of another sea berth and we added a high back to the dining table bench to provide an additional handhold for those walking forward in a seaway. From a safety perspective, we spared no expense, adding dual redundant autopilots, additional high volume pumps, and additional electronics (Sea.AI collision avoidance, active radar reflector, YB Tracking).

SALTAIR has been an amazing platform from which to explore the world! We moved into Saltair in June 2023 at the Hallberg-Rassy yard in Sweden and have been living aboard since. Our travels took us down the Skattegat, across the North Sea, through the English Channel and down the Atlantic Coast of Europe to the Canary Islands. From there we crossed the Atlantic with the ARC ‘2023 to begin a winter of cruising the Caribbean. We spent the summer of 2024 in New England, cruising as far north as Maine before returning to the Annapolis area in the fall. In December we left for the Caribbean and in January 2025 we began our circumnavigation with the World ARC, transiting the Panama Canal in February and then crossing the Pacific, the Indian and the South Atlantic oceans and visiting countless fascinating places along the way. Some of our favorite stops were in the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Fiji and Namibia.

Hallberg-Rassy has trademarked the term “push button sailing” and we’ve become huge believers of this concept since taking ownership! Each of our sails, including whichever downwind sail is hoisted (Blue Water Runner or Code 0), is on a powered furler controlled by push-buttons on the binnacle. We can reef or stow any sail simply by easing a sheet and pushing a button, or in the case of the main, pushing two buttons. Deployment is just as simple, allowing us to run single-person watches under most conditions when offshore.

SALTAIR has proven herself to be a capable sailor over a wide range of conditions. Much of our sailing has been downwind in tradewinds, for which we use only our Blue Water Runner tradewind sail poled out on the windward side (no mainsail). This sail allows us a range of true wind angles between 150 - 180 degrees and a wind range of approximately 10 - 23 knots. At higher windspeeds we sail with a reefed genoa on the pole with or without a reefed main. In reaching or beating conditions we’ll sail with the main and one of the Code 0, the BWR doubled over, genoa or cutter, depending on the wind speed. SALTAIR is a capable light air performer and she generally can sail to within a knot of the windspeed when the wind is forward of the beam. SALTAIR’s centre cockpit design makes her extremely sea kindly in all conditions and we’ve logged many 200+ nautical mile days. SALTAIR was delivered new with laminate sails (main, genoa, cutter) but they were showing signs of early delamination so last fall (September 2025) we replaced those with a new set of Elvstrom Hydranet Radial sails.

Hallberg-Rassy went over the top when working with Mastervolt to design our onboard power system. With our solar array and our 400 amps (at 24V) of charging capacity, we typically only run our generator for an hour every second day when offshore under normal circumstances. We have maintained our engine and generator based upon the manufacturer’s recommended service schedule, and the work has almost exclusively been performed by professional technicians.

We will be wrapping up our circumnavigation in April and will be returning to land life shortly after, as our son starts high school in the fall. We have reluctantly decided to find a new owner for SALTAIR. SALTAIR is equipped with a full compliment of tools, spares and housewares and she’s in move-in condition, ready for her next circumnavigation!

MANUFACTURER’S COMMENTS:

The Hallberg-Rassy 57 delivers the best of the Hallberg-Rassy concept combined with the latest in design and development from Frers. Both living space, storage, performance and handling are clearly improved compared to the previous generation. She gives you fast, effortless and comfortable sailing at a new level.

The sail plan is modern. The head sail furler is a push button operated under-deck fitted Furlex TD. Cap shrouds and lowers are divided with separated chainplates. That gives easy passage on deck, a good set up for sheeting the head sail and to create a wide steady support for the mast. A powerful hydraulic backstay tensioner comes as standard. There is even a possibility to get a self-tacking arrangement. She is a real mile eater. According to Frers speed diagram, a loaded Hallberg-Rassy 57 will log 8.75 knots in a 90 degree true wind angle with only 10 knots true wind.

The whole yacht is set up for effortless sailing. We call it Push Button Sailing. There are means to handle this big yacht with minimum crew, such as hydraulic in-mast furling, optional hydraulic main outhaul, powered jib furler, powered winches, hydraulic backstay tensioner, optional hydraulic push button adjustment of the main and jib halyards, bow thruster, optional stern thruster with docking function, push button operated bathing platform and an optional retractable gangway.

The all-lead keel has a heavy bulb with low centre of gravity and weighs 9.9 tons. The keel is bolted onto a deep bilge, for strength and comfort. The hull has an integral rubrail.

The rudder arrangement, like the successful Hallberg-Rassy 44 and 340, has twin rudder blades. This provides an easily controlled boat during all sailing conditions, especially in rough weather. Each rudder has dual self-adjusting rudder bearings that provide an easy to steer rudder construction in all conditions. Because of the reduced rudder surface, compared to a single rudder solution, the rudder loads will also decrease which will increase the safety factor.

As tradition says, the cockpit of a Hallberg-Rassy is very well sheltered. The cockpit length is a generous 2.90m. For the first time on a center cockpit Hallberg-Rassy, the boat is built with twin wheels. The design gives an easy passage through the cockpit and the possibility for a big and sturdy fixed cockpit table. The width and the volume of the boat makes it possible. The pedestal heads each have enough space for a good size modern chart plotter. The deep cockpit gives excellent protection. The helmsman position is slightly elevated, to offer both excellent view for the helmsman and good headroom below in the aft cabin and aft head.

The deck is clean and uncluttered. Forward of the mast the deck is flush. All deck hatches are flush mounted. There is a sun deck integrated into the aft cabin roof. The anchor winch is hidden below deck level. The jib furler is located under deck. Because of a design trick, there is no need for any garage for the sliding hatch. Instead, the curvature of the outer coach roof and the inner ceiling are different, allowing enough space for the sliding hatch to disappear. There are in total eight sturdy mooring cleats on the top of the teak toe rail, of which the spring cleats are double on each side.

There is an integral bowsprit that is laminated as part of the hull and deck, not put on afterwards. The design is so beautiful that it could almost be called art. The bowsprit also serves several practical purposes:
• Ideal and efficient tack point for a light wind sail
• Ideal for carrying an anchor for the electric windlass
• Ideal for a bow ladder, making it easy to get onboard the bow from a low dock

The huge bathing platform folds out at the push of a button. When closed, this gives a clean and good-looking transom. This arrangement also allows for more deck locker space than with a traditional built in bathing platform.

The deck locker space is enormous on the Hallberg-Rassy 57. There is a huge deck locker cabin in front of the v cabin, an anchor locker with further space in front of that, a cockpit locker, a big aft deck locker and two further side aft deck lockers. All in all there is a huge 10 000 liters deck storage available.

The interior offers a spacious accommodation. The forward cabin and the starboard cabin are very big for the yacht size with lots of storage, elbow space and big generous bed sizes. The v cabin is so comfortable that it is big enough as a second owner’s cabin. It goes without saying that the whole interior is bright and inviting. The whole interior has a one level sole area, comfortable and safe both out at sea and in a marina. There is a dedicated wet locker directly in the entrance area. The aft cabin is wide, airy and with a comfort worthy a king. The seagoing galley has huge work top areas.

There is a large door and a walk-in engine room. It is carefully sound insulated and perforated aluminium plates cover the insulation. In here the technical equipment is found: low RPM Volvo Penta D4-175, 175 HP main engine, a 17.5 kW low RPM generator with soundshield, heater, pumps, filters, pressure equalizer for the fresh water system, AquaDrive flexible coupling for the engine shaft and a high pressure pump for the watermaker, just to mention a few. Everything easy to maintain, all well sound insulated.

The Hallberg-Rassy 57 has been nominated to the honourable title European Yacht of the Year 2019 in the category "Luxury cruiser". That means that the Hallberg-Rassy 57 has been ranked as one of the most interesting and promising newcomers of its class. The nominees for European Yacht of the Year award are selected by journalists from twelve leading European yachting magazines. Nominated yachts need to be thoroughly tested and evaluated in a lot of different criterias.

PRESS REVIEW:

The 57 is arguably the best-looking Hallberg-Rassy to date. Seen afloat, its long Frers lines are bewitching. Look closer and you’ll notice how the Rassy hallmarks, such as fixed windscreen and blue stripes, meld with a modern, powerful hull shape that features a wide transom, straight stem and twin rudders. The resultant sailing qualities are superb, particularly for a centre cockpit design.

It’s the type of boat that you just want to keep sailing offshore. Having cleared the rocky islets off Orust and made it into open water, sailing at 8-8.5 knots upwind in a Force 4, I just wanted to carry on heading to Denmark (despite knowing a front was approaching).

Twin wheels help provide better views forward as well as access through the deep, long, protected cockpit. Down below is a spacious oak (or mahogany) interior on one level, with plenty of natural light – which is appreciated particularly in the saloon and sumptuous aft cabin.

Yachting World – EYOTY 2019 Summary