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HABER 660 Sloop

The HABER 660 sloop is a comfortable touring-sailing-yacht which performs equally well on lakes, coastal waters or the open sea.

Despite the modest draught, the yacht is self-rightening thanks to the shape of the hull and the properly selected interior ballast. The HABER 660 is available in the CE category C (coastal waters) or B (outside coastal waters).

The intelligent interior layout ensures comfort unparalleled by other yachts in this class. The high and well-glazed superstructure provides head room of 1.85 m and an exceptional outlook, also when sailing. The HABER 660 offers numerous lockers and cupboards. In the forepeak there is a double berth, in the saloon also double berth, which is created by lowering the table. There is also a spacy galley and a separate head, optionally with shower. A comfortable yacht for two persons, with living space for up to four persons.

HABER 660 sloop has a gaff rigging (Gunter rig type). The mainsail is hoisted by only one halyard, which guarantees easy operation. The mast extends 1.1 m beyond the transom when lowered. This can easily be done by one person.

The basic choice of engine is an outboard engine (4 - 15 hp) mounted on the transom. As an option, we offer inboard Diesel engines from 5 to 16 hp, installed under the cockpit.

TECHNICAL DATA - HABER 660 SLOOP

HABER YACHTS sp. z o.o. 13-300 Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, ul. K. Makuszyńskiego 1, POLSKA

tel.+48 56 472 54 24 tel.+48 56 472 54 04 e-mail: [email protected]

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Haber 620: a trailer sailer like no other

• David Harding
• August 3, 2023

How on earth do you get full standing headroom in a trailer-sailer that really sails? David Harding meets the Haber 620 to find out

The Haber 620 has a hull length of 6.12m/2-ft 1in, and has a draught of 1.35m/4ft 5in with the centreplate down. Credit: David Harding Credit: David Harding

Product Overview

• Well finished
• Enjoyable to sail
• Expensive compared to other similar size boats
• Best suited to single handed sailors

Price as reviewed:

Small trailable yachts come in a range of shapes and styles.

Some are sleek and sporty, like the Seascapes. Others draw on tradition for their inspiration, such as the Cornish Crabbers.

And then there are the rest, now typified by the Polish lakesailers of which we have seen many examples arriving in the UK over the past decade or so.

Of course, these are very broad groupings. Some don’t obviously fit into any of them, such as Swallow Yachts’ BayCruisers .

And now we have another one that slots into no particular category: the Haber (pronounced Harber) 620.

Standing up in the cockpit gives good visibility forward – or you can see through the windows. Credit: David Harding

This dinky little deck-salooncruiser-in-miniature stopped a lot of people in their tracks when she appeared at the 2016 Southampton Boat Show .

Here’s a 20-footer that gives you full standing headroom – and you don’t see many of those.

She has a fully-retractable centreplate that makes for easy trailing and allows her to float on a wet lawn.

What’s more, though she’s clearly a modern design, she incorporates elements of traditional appeal including tan sails and a rig that’s a sort of gunter-gaff hybrid.

There’s something rather engaging about her lines. She doesn’t look remotely bloated.

In fact, she’s one of those boats whose proportions would still work if she were substantially larger. If it weren’t for the outboard, the crew and, perhaps, the rudder, you might mistake her for a 30-footer from a distance.

She’s not conceived as a performance yacht, but the Haber 620 sails surprisingly well. Credit: David Harding

Apart from the fact that she’s different from anything most of us have ever seen, the baby Haber has instant and obvious appeal to a lot of people.

Boats that are easy to trail, launch, rig and recover open up all sorts of possibilities, not to mention potential economies.

The trouble is that, until they reach a size that can make them more of a challenge in the trailing, rigging, launching and recovery departments than some people might want, they’re often lacking in internal space and creature comforts, especially for those who are no longer in their first flush.

And unless you happen to have a pop-top, there’s no way you’ll be able to stand up below decks except possibly under the hatch.

If you want a small trailable cruiser with standing headroom and an all-round view of the outside world, the Haber 620 is your boat.

Step aboard and you’ll find she’s surprisingly stable given her weight of just 1.3 tons.

Sit in the cockpit and you’re sheltered by the wheelhouse yet still able to see forward through its windows.

Go below and you can stand up unless you’re over 6ft tall (1.83m).

You’ll find an enclosed heads compartment, a galley opposite a dinette that converts to a double berth, and a generous V-berth in the bow.

This is a 20-footer with a difference – a big difference.

A Haber pedigree

Regular readers of PBO may recall that Habers have featured before.

I met the Haber 800 first, sailing her in Southampton after the boat show in 2009 and then, with Janusz Konkol, her designer and builder, across the IJsselmeer without using an autopilot or touching the tiller.

This self-steering ability is thanks to the clever arrangement of multiple centreplates that’s available with the larger Haber models.

Next I saw the Haber 34 at a couple of Düsseldorf Boat Shows before eventually testing her in Gdansk.

Over the past few years I have probably covered more test miles on Habers than on any other boat.

Minimal space below the boom need not preclude a kicking strap: this is Haber’s solution. Credit: David Harding

I have also spent more hours in technical discussion with Konkol, at boat shows and test locations around Europe, than with any other designer.

I wouldn’t have done this were I in any doubt that the philosophy behind the designs makes a lot of sense or that the boats themselves do what they’re designed to do.

Surprising though it may sound, many of the features that increase safety or comfort offshore serve to enhance the boats’ appeal and practicality for coastal and inshore use too – and vice versa.

No need to hunt for tools to tension the rigging . Credit: David Harding

The obvious question is why any of this is relevant in the context of a 20ft trailer-sailer. It’s relevant because it shows that this is a boat with a pedigree.

We have seen a lot of Polish offerings in the UK in recent years, some of which have been less impressive in design, construction and sailing ability than others.

This might encourage purists or performance sailors to take one look at the Haber 620 and dismiss her. That would be a mistake.

This little boat has been designed and built by someone who knows exactly what he’s doing and for whom sailing ability is a fundamental quality in any boat.

The Haber name has yet to become established in the UK and is probably still unknown to many people other than those enlightened souls who read PBO, but the new baby of the range is more likely than any of her larger siblings to change all that.

Stand up and sail the Haber 620

The first question I wanted to answer was how the Haber 620 sailed.

If she didn’t go, it would be a matter of ‘well, what would you expect from a trailable 20-footer with standing headroom?’

I was, however, confident that she would perform far better than her appearance might lead some people to imagine – though to be fair there’s really nothing to suggest that she shouldn’t sail, once you get over the notion of a deck saloon on a boat of this size.

Freeboard isn’t that great, she carries a decent spread of sail and the hull looks quite sweet.

There’s no enormously wide transom on the Haber 620: Konkol prefers more moderate lines and has made no attempt to squeeze a double berth into the stern.

Ballast is internal for easy raising and lowering of the centreplate but, while many trailer-sailers make do with flat sheets of steel, the Haber’s plate is a profiled glassfibre section.

With its overhanging roof and acrylic side screens, the deck saloon gives a sheltered cockpit. Credit: David Harding

Incorporating just enough weight to ensure negative buoyancy, it gives her a draught of 4ft 5in (1.35m).

To find out whether my suspicions about her performance were correct, I tested the Haber 620 at Walton-on-the-Naze.

This delightful corner of Essex is a long way from anywhere for we South-Coasters, so I arranged to sail the Haber after another job on the East Coast.

The day we chose was a stunning day for exploring the Walton Backwaters: we had gloriously warm autumn sunshine and such a high spring tide that we could almost sail over the top of the marshes.

All we missed was the promised breeze: it struggled to reach 10 knots, and even then only in the occasional gust.

We did such sailing as conditions allowed and I completed everything else I normally do on a boat test, but left still wondering how the boat would perform under pressure.

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At least we sailed straight past a Westerly Griffon upwind, not that her crew appeared to be trying very hard.

I left realising there was no avoiding a second visit.

Beautiful though the Walton Backwaters are, it would mean another 400 miles and eight hours-plus in the car for a couple of hours on the water and perhaps one modified paragraph.

Such is the lot of a boat tester if you want to find the answers.

This time we had a solid 12-16 knots of wind – enough to keep the boat fully powered up most of the time and marginally over-pressed in the gusts.

We would have needed a few more knots before starting to think about reefing.

It was immediately clear that the little Haber 620 is great fun to sail.

She’s respectably quick – the log recorded mid-to-high 4s on the wind – as well as responsive and well balanced.

What also matters to my mind is that she makes you want to sail her for sailing’s sake.

This might be of little consequence to many of those who will buy her, but if you’re a keen sailor it means you can enjoy yourself without imposing privation on members of your crew who are more interested in their creature comforts.

It can only broaden her appeal.

Some boats just have that fun factor and, believe it or not, the Haber 620 is one of them.

Being fun doesn’t mean being skittish. She’s as well-behaved as you could wish a boat to be.

The helm remains light, thanks to those balanced hull lines that are something of a Haber speciality.

If we bore away in the strongest gusts with the sheets pinned in, the rudder eventually loaded up before the blade lost grip as the gunwale approached the water.

It took some pushing to get her to this point and even then she only issued the mildest of rebukes, rounding up in a thoroughly measured way and stopping well short of head-to-wind.

For a boat with internal ballast, she’s commendably stiff.

The modest freeboard and relatively narrow stern mean that moving from side to side in the cockpit has less effect than it typically has on boats of similar size with towering topsides and enormously broad transoms.

A balanced view

A profiled centreplate does more than just increase upwind performance. For example, she would stall only when at a virtual standstill hard on the wind, then crab for just a few yards before the laminar flow reattached to the foils.

It was like letting in the clutch and off she would go again.

Easier, more predictable manoeuvring under sail is the result.

With a shifty wind in confined waters it was hard to gauge our tacking angle, but it appeared to be around 90°; quite in order for a boat like this.

Off the wind she picked up her skirts and slipped along at 6 knots plus.

Significantly there was no clonking from the centreplate, because Haber custom-fit each one inside its case and adjust the bushes individually.

Second time out we were able to push the Haber 260 harder and find that she remained very well behaved under pressure. Credit: David Harding

On a run, goose-winging was much easier than with a typical modern minimal-overlap headsail.

In terms of ergonomics, the presence of the wheelhouse inevitably has a bearing.

If you want to sit inboard on the cockpit seats, it’s easy to brace your feet across to the opposite side.

Visibility is pretty good on starboard tack because you can see through the windows to port unless you’re heeled to the point where the headsail gets in the way.

On port tack the heads partially obstructs your view to starboard, but in practice we rarely found it a problem.

If you don’t want to sit down and peer around the deck saloon when necessary, you can stand up and see over the top.

Perching on the coamings is another alternative, though gravity pulls you inboard when the boat heels.

My solution was to sit on the windward coaming and duck my head beneath the guardwire.

That way you have a good view forward and of the headsail’s luff, with your chest supported by the outboard side of the guardwire.

It seemed the obvious answer unless you’re tacking every 100 yards, in which case threading and un-threading yourself might be more trouble than it’s worth.

Accommodation options on the Haber 260

Handling is simple. It’s a smallish cockpit – three people would be a comfortable maximum – so nothing is far away.

The mainsheet is taken to a strongpoint on the cockpit sole far enough forward of the tiller for the helmsman to slide easily between the two.

Overlap on the headsail is greater than with a typical modern rig, yet sheeting it in is easy.

A pair of Barton 6 winches handle the sheets, so when tacking you take a couple of turns around them, pull in the slack and then, once the boat is moving on the new tack, luff up briefly to take the weight out of the sail and sheet it home.

The potential issue in this case is that the cleats are abaft the winches, aligned for use by the helmsman, and the coamings aren’t wide enough for them to be fitted elsewhere without a bit of re-jigging.

Great for singlehanding, it’s perhaps less than ideal if the crew wants to play an active role.

Also helping single-handing is the boat’s balance. On our test boat, however, a biff to the rudder had made the bearings a bit stiff so it was hard to determine to what extent her course-keeping ability was a function of her design and how much was down to friction.

That was a shame, because the yard goes to great lengths to achieve smooth, slop-free movement in the whole rudder assembly.

Good balance and the ability to keep going where you point them are characteristics of Habers as a breed, so I suspect the 620 would be easy to trim to sail herself.

The balance on the rudder blade is both good and adjustable, while the absence of play adds to the positive feel.

Gaff or gunter?

Konkol describes his rig as ‘Huari gaff’. It’s a sort of high-peak, high-aspect-ratio gaff with just one halyard .

It keeps the mast short for easy raising and lowering and avoids the need for spreaders.

Hoisting and lowering the mainsail under way is easy enough, even if the position of the clutch low down on the mast means that it’s quickest and simplest to hoist directly from the halyard’s exit sheave and then pull the slack through the clutch before using the winch if necessary.

Hardware is good and well positioned, and the stainless steel work is made in Haber’s factory.

One omission in the rigging department is a means of adjusting the clew outhaul under way.

A built-in mast lowering system is designed to make the job easy. Credit: David Harding

Of interest to more owners will be an anchor roller, which is to be fitted to future boats sold in the UK.

Provision for the rode will also be needed. Less critical, if rather unsightly, is the way dirt becomes trapped inboard of the thoroughly practical plastic rubbing strake along the flange forming the hull-to-deck joint.

Ten minutes with a toothbrush will clean it up, but it’s still a grime-trap.

Back in the cockpit, we find full-depth lockers to port and starboard. A separate lid gives access to the starboard locker’s aft end where a stainless steel fuel tank can be built in for the outboard if you don’t have an engine with an integral tank, as most 4-6hp models will.

Our test boat had 9.9hp on the bracket; overkill on a massive scale.

An alternative arrangement is to have twin rudders, with an outboard well in the cockpit.

Returning to the stowage, it was good to see plenty of it – more than on many larger boats, in fact. A useful addition would be a cubby locker in the coaming.

There looked to be space to fit one to starboard, even if you couldn’t expect it to come as standard: ready-accessible stowage for small items in the cockpit is always needed.

Accommodation on the Haber 620

As described earlier, the interior offers far more than you would expect of a 20-footer.

It’s roomy, light, airy, and neatly finished in Polish oak. A full interior moulding forms the basis of the layout.

The interior is what really sets the Haber apart – room to stand, sit, eat, sleep and cook, and there’s an enclosed heads compartment too. Credit: David Harding

Overhead is a moulded headliner that still allows access to the fastenings for the deck fittings. That’s an important detail.

Other details include provision of a half-height hanging locker to port abaft the dinette. Stowage is under the berths and beneath the cockpit sole, where there’s room for a fair amount of gear (but not an inboard engine).

Additions in the galley, where you have a comfortable perch on the centreplate case, can include a freshwater tank and tap.

Verdict on the Haber 620

By rights, the Haber 620 should sell like hot cakes.

She’s more expensive than some offerings of similar size, but that’s inevitable given the way she’s built and fitted out.

For example, the laminates are hand-laid and the hull spends four days in the mould before being kept at a temperature no lower than 18°C for 30 days to encourage full curing.

Few builders go to such lengths.

Issues of quality aside, the Haber can’t be compared with other boats on a length-forlength basis because she’s so different.

I’ve tested a more conventional trailersailer of similar size that was a fraction of the price but nowhere near as well finished or enjoyable to sail.

It’s hard to think of another boat that offers what the Haber offers.

Trail and sail where you like, add a cabin heater and keep going right through the winter with your warm conservatory on the water.

This might be one of the most fun, versatile and generally likeable little boats you’ll ever meet.

Basic price starts from £33,000.

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This pocket cruiser has the little-ship look

From the profile it appears to me that the boat has a flat bottom. There is a small centerboard that reduces the draft from 4 feet 5 inches to 1 foot. It looks like the rudder blade kicks up.  The L/B is 2.45. Using a DWL of 17 feet, the D/L would be 240, and that seems about right. There is not much ballast, only 616 pounds for a B/D of 23%. 

The accommodation plan is as simple as you would expect on a boat less than 21 feet LOA. There is an enclosed head aft and small but functional galley forward of the head. There is a dinette for two to port. The double V-berth looks quite large. 

This is an unusual rig.  It’s a gaff rig with a single halyard for the main. Most gaff rigs have two halyards, one for the jaws end called the throat halyard and the other for the outboard end of the gaff called the peak halyard. Raising the main requires both halyards to work together to get the gaff. But this single halyard system simplifies that. I’ve done a single-halyard gaff before and it works fine. Shape control is maintained with a unique slider system on the mast, a flexible gaff and an adjustable loop on the main halyard. 

Interestingly, this rig uses a normal triangular main for heavy air. It’s like taking a really deep reef. The reading material claims one man can lower the mast in 10 minutes. I have a nice photo of the boat under sail in a good breeze and some chop. Too bad the two other guys are sit ting all the way aft in the cockpit at the bow, no doubt helped by the chop, is pointing skyward. “Come on guys, move forward. Trim that little hooker out.”

LOA 21’4”; Beam 8’2”; Draft 1’2” (board up) 4’1” (board down); Sail area 213 sq. ft.; Displ. 2,866 lbs.; Ballast 661 lbs.; Sail area 213 sq. ft.; L/B 2.45; D/L 240; Auxiliary 4-hp outboard.

Our best estimate of the sailaway price: $30,000

Haber Yachts

13-300 Nowe Miasto Lubawskie

ul. K. Makuszyńskiego 1, Poland

+48 (0) 56 472 54 04

www.haber-yachts.com

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Haber Yachts

• 13-300 Nowe Miasto Lubawskie ul. K. Makuszyńskiego 1 Haber Yachts sp. z o.o.

the company History

at first glance portfolio Konkola Janusz (Janusz Konkol) , Polish designer, ideologist and founder of Haber Yachts, marvel at the diversity of his ideas and interests.

it All started in 1991 when 50 kilometers from gdańsk in place Novo Miasto Lubawskie was founded shipyard. The first boat was launched in 1993. For 15 years, the financial stability of the company was maintained by the supply motor boats to the us market through a partner company Roth Bilt Boats . This allowed to develop several areas of production based on original design solutions. By the standards of the industry, the shipyard is small, for Haber Yachts employs about 50 people.

Manufacturing

Despite its small size, the company has almost closed cycle of production of composite and wooden hulls, metal products and elements of the mast.

At the shipyard used technology of manual lamination of hulls and of laying gelcoat with computer control of temperature and time regimes. Before launching all buildings are tested for air tightness and the quality of the connection layers in a special tank.

the Lineup Haber is quite wide. The company produces motor and sailing boats up to 10 m of laminated fiberglass and wood. The line includes motor boats semi-displacement and planing boats >with a closed interior, with the Central console, and also >runabout. Sailing yacht with classic sloops and tenders with closed cabins ranging from lake trailer models to offshore motoseller category seaworthiness A.

Haber Boats have unique patented technology. Most interesting know-how 4-sortova balance system for sailing yachts. Dynamically changing the position of the centre of lateral resistance, it is possible to stabilize the boat at a given rate, reducing the resistance of the rudder thread. The design allows you to keep the boat at a predetermined rate by adjusting the immersion level of Vertov depending on the angle to the wind and roll, without the use of autopilot. Models that use this principle are largely self-governing, allowing to perform all the maneuvers alone and in all weather conditions.

Chertami also have some semi-displacement boats, which improves seaworthiness, while maintaining the possibility of movement in shallow water.

Another feature of sailing ships Haber is the use of advanced gateleg weapons, allowing you to control the sails the simple elements of the rigging and also easy to install and remove the mast.

also Interesting interior solutions of closed salons as sailing and motor boats. Even in a small trailer models, the layout of the wheelhouse allows you to place all the modules needed for a long cruise.

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