One class · one register · every scrap of evidence
Between 1982 and 1997 Hallberg-Rassy built 89 hulls of the Enderlein-designed 49 — its ocean flagship of the decade. Then they scattered: renamed, reflagged, repowered, resold, raced across the Atlantic, parked behind customs fences, one allegedly borrowed by the CIA. No complete record of the class existed anywhere, including — by their own account — outside the yard itself. This site is the attempt: a forensic register of every hull, every identity, every price and every contradiction, built from statutory ship registers, the owners' club, thirty years of broker archives, live AIS, race results and the Wayback Machine. Nothing here is trusted because a listing said so; everything carries its evidence.
Every hull the yard built, in build order. Solid cells are identified boats — colour is the strength of the evidence behind the identification. Dashed cells are the dark fleet: hull numbers no public source has yet tied to a boat. Click anything.
Hull number against build year for every year-anchored hull. This curve did not exist anywhere before this register: it was assembled from register construction records, owners' club statements, and hull numbers found verbatim in old brochure text — and it is clean. Where a broker year disagrees with it, the broker is usually wrong, and the disagreement is on the conflict ledger.
Nine investigations, told straight: the phantom hull that never existed, the 41-metre superyacht that stole a sailboat's identity, the boat that went dark in the Adriatic and reappeared with a new name and a notarised price, two Atlantic crossings fused into one by a careless archive. How each was cracked, and what it proves about boat data in the wild.
The fleet as an asset class: every observed price in constant 2026 euros, an itemised capital bridge from each live boat to a defined ocean-ready standard, and the uncomfortable arithmetic — the market pays for condition, never for invoices. One boat on the board is cheap. It is probably not the one you think.
Every identified boat, one dossier each: names carried, flags flown, engines fitted and worn out, every listing with its engine-hours fingerprint, every notarised sale, every AIS identity — with the evidence grade on every line.
How this register knows what it knows: the fingerprint method that identifies boats by engine hours rather than names, the V/I evidence grammar, the conflict ledger, and a field guide to the seven ways boat data lies.
1 · The class repriced 30–40% down in real terms and nobody noticed. Norway notarises yacht sale prices. Hull 10 sold three times in 2007–2010 at what is €305–335k in today's money; the same class of boat now asks €135–250k and does not clear. Nominal prices hid the slide — hull 41 sold for almost the same kroner in 2011 and 2019, a 27% real decline.
2 · Refit invoices evaporate at the dock. The only fully observed refit-to-exit cycle (hull 63: €330k+ refit 2021–22, notarised €370k sale 2023) implies the market valued the running, repowered donor boat at roughly zero net of the invoices. Every bridge on the economics page inherits that lesson.
3 · The register out-performed its own auditor. The external audit that triggered this rebuild asserted the class was built 1982–1992. The yard's own page says 1982–1997, 89 hulls. Verified, snapshotted, corrected — and a reminder that in this dataset even the corrections need corrections.
