Boat Overview
The Hallberg-Rassy 41, named Bahati Sana, is a safe and comfortable long-distance cruising yacht featuring a superior layout. She has been in the same family ownership since new and has provided countless holidays and adventures across Europe. The centre-cockpit design and solid construction of Bahati Sana offer a level of protection, comfort, and durability rarely found in modern yachts and never at this price point. The yacht has multiple sail plan options with two headsail furlers and a mizzen. The mizzen mast provides additional sail plan options and helps maintain a steady course, relieving the helm and steering gear. The Hallberg-Rassy 41 is designed to perform well in various conditions.
Bahati Sana is powered by a modern D2-75 engine with a brand new feathering Max prop, delivering power immediately when the shaft is turned.
Accommodation
First-class workmanship in selected mahogany, hand-rubbed and treated to a silk smooth finish. The accommodation consists of:
- GAS LOCKER: Water and gastight stowage for propane bottles, anchor chain below. Accessible from deck and drained overboard.
- FORWARD CABIN: Forepeak with two comfortable berths, 2.05 m (6' 8") long. Infill cushion between berths. Below the berths are stowage areas, accessible through doors. The inside of the hull is lined with mahogany. Shelves at sides. A sliding door separates the forepeak from the passage to the main cabin. A good-sized hanging locker is on the starboard side of the passage.
- HEADS COMPARTMENT: Enclosed toilet compartment with a marine toilet and 10 US gallon stainless steel holding tank. Wash basin in china, sunk into the countertop. Running hot and cold water with telephone type shower. Shower curtain, mirror, and lockers. The floor is dished and drained for showering. The walls are covered with light colour linen texture vinyl.
- MAIN SALOON: Built with fair size sofa berths port and starboard. The port side sofa is L-shaped and 7' long, the starboard sofa straight and 6'8" long. Bookshelves and lockers outboard of the sofas. The inside of the hull above berths is paneled with mahogany slats. The ceiling is lined with somvyl.
- GALLEY: Aft in the main cabin is an L-shaped galley equipped with ENO Deluxe 2-burner stove with oven and grill in gimbals (2024). In-date gas certificate. Large icebox (220 litres), drained and with 12v compressor driven refrigeration unit. Stainless sink with running hot and cold water. Locker for china, drawers, etc. Crockery for 6, numerous glasses, saucepans, and cooking utensils.
- CHART TABLE: On the port side is the navigator's table with chart locker, drawers, electric switch panel with voltmeter and meters for freshwater and fuel. Oilskin locker behind the companionway ladder.
- AFT CABIN: Two berths (1.95m (6' 10") x 0.8m (2' 9")). The inside of the hull is lined with mahogany. Shelves at sides. Headroom 1.90m (6' 8"). Thermostat shower. On the port side is a hanging locker and drawers. Door to main cabin, escape ladder to cockpit.
- AFT HEADS COMPARTMENT: Marine pump action toilet. Wash basin in china, sunk into the countertop. Running hot and cold water with telephone type shower. Shower curtain, mirror, and lockers. The floor is dished and drained for showering. The walls are covered with light colour linen texture vinyl.
Mechanical Systems
Volvo Penta D2-75 75HP four-cylinder marine diesel engine, freshwater cooled, new 2010.
12v electrical system, four batteries (replaced in 2024), one for engine start and three for domestic use.
230v shore power system with cable.
Victron Energy Battery charger 12v/60amp.
Engine start panel in cockpit with tachometer, hours counter, temperature gauge.
3-bladed Max-Prop propeller, new 2024 on stainless steel shaft, cutlass bearing also replaced.
Engine compartment is sound insulated.
Cutlass water lubricated rubber bearing.
Two fuel tanks, total capacity 460 litres.
Manual and electric bilge pumps.
Spars & Sails
Double spreader ketch rig.
Masts and booms in silver anodized alloy.
Deck stepped on the cabin tops directly over strengthened bulkheads.
Furlex headsail furling and reefing system.
New forestay (2022).
SAILS:
- Elvstrom Fully battened mainsail plus lazy jack packing system (2023). Laundered Winter 2023/2024.
- Furling Genoa Alpha Sails, New 2010. Serviced by Elvstrom Winter 2023/24.
- Mizzen Sail by Jackells New 2015.
- Lightweight gennaker/genoa New 2010 and hardly used.
Deck Equipment
PU decks by Eiteteak, New 2014.
Sheet winches - two Lewmar 44, self-tailing.
Halyard winch - Lewmar with rope stopper in cockpit.
Sheet winch - Lewmar for mizzen.
Four 15" mooring cleats.
Two 10" mooring cleats, amidships.
Pulpit, pushpit, and stanchions in stainless steel.
Bowsprit removed and refurbished (2021).
Built-in rubbing strake with bronze profile.
Double guardwires with entry gates port & starboard.
Fixed windscreen with opening centre section.
Sprayhood attached to windscreen.
Portlights in light alloy frames.
Lewmar electric windlass, New 2020.
Two bow rollers.
45lb CQR with 40m 10 mm chain.
One electric bilge pump and one manual Whale bilge pump.
International navigation lights, 4".
Navigation Equipment
Steering compass on binnacle.
Raymarine Hybrid-touch chart plotter at chart table, New 2020.
Raymarine 50 wind instrument.
Raymarine i70 display.
Navman VHF.
Safety Equipment
- Flare pack
- Horseshoe lifebuoy
Owners Comments
Bahati Sana entered our lives when my father first saw her at the 1980 Southampton Boat Show having recently arrived from the yard in Sweden, as one of the last 3 boats built of her type. Little over a year later she was ours, and has been in our family ever since. My father would always catch up with Christoph Rassy at successive boat shows, and he would always ask after the boat.
Her first four seasons with us were spent in North West Scotland where she was cruised extensively before she sailed to the Mediterranean cruising around the Balearics. She came back to the UK in 2013 and has been based on the South Coast ever since. She has constantly benefitted from professional care and upgrades throughout her life, and I have also been determined to continue my late father’s legacy of keeping her in the best possible condition and up to date; I would hope this is evident in the pictures. Certainly, wherever she goes she seems to catch the eye and always gets plenty of compliments. Down below her interior also defies her age, and reflects the meticulous care she has received throughout, especially at the end of every season in preparation for overwintering.
I have long since harboured plans to retire and do the ARC and maybe wander beyond, but sadly this will no longer be possible. As such, she deserves to go to a new home where her new owners can get the best out of her. I will cherish the family memories she has made, the way in which she has looked after us in bad weather, the ease and balance of the ketch rig, and her sea-kindliness and the joy of romping along eating up the miles with the wind on/abaft the beam.