Great News! Five new Dehler models, the 29, 32, 35, 45 and 60 are set to make their UK debut during the summer of 2010 with the first yachts arrived in June at the Dehler UK waterfront office at Hamble Point Marina.

The full range is in production at the Dehler Yachts factory near Dusseldorf, which has a pedigree history of superior build quality. Dehler enjoys an enviably strong position as part of the Hanse portfolio of prestige yacht brands which include Moody and Fjord. As Germany’s second largest production boat builder, Hanse is completely committed to underpinning the sales and support of this new generation of Dehler yachts.

Dehler UK is headed by Andy Hind, who has over 30 years expertise of sales, support and winning races in the fast cruiser racer yacht sector. He plans to bring Dehler back into the forefront of the UK’s most popular performance yachts.
The force behind the UK operation is Inspiration Marine which already market the Hanse brand in the UK. Andy comments “With the formidable backing of Hanse coupled with the innovation and quality on offer from Dehler, this is a range that will deserve the success that we expect and hope for”. He adds “We are confident of both top results on the race course, and many hours of cruising pleasure that our owners can rely upon given the quality and strength of Dehler’s designs.”

Dehler UK will be showing a number of the new yachts including the 32 and the 45 at September’s Southampton Boat Show.

Dehler has been a builder of fast, secure award-winning sailing yachts for more than 40 years and as part of their goal of constant improvement their R&D department is still developing pioneering innovations in sailing. The name stands for safety, speed, absolute quality and high resale-value. The convincing performance of Dehler yachts on the race course is truly remarkable, as witnessed by their numerous regatta victories all over the world. We are now able to obtain parts for Dehler yachts email us with your requirements.

Andy Hind based at Hanse at Hamble Point is the new Dehler representative tel 02380 455741.

Spare Parts Dehler Owners will continue with the supply of spare parts for yachts produced until last year with Andy taking care of parts for all new boats delivered from now on.

2010 East Coast Rally We habve around ten owners interested in the rally planned for w/e 4/5 September at Suffolk Yacht harbour. if you have not already expressed an interest please email me.

Cruising in SE Asia - see Dehler Links for details of Charlie and Bettys' cruise in Asia

North Sails email us for details of a special offer on North sails for later Dehler yachts

2008 Jester Azores Challenge
Congratulations to Roger Fitzgerald who finished third in his Dehler 29 Ella Trout III after 'a very boisterous passage'

Manuals - Dehler 38CWS manual
Does anyone have a copy of a 38CWS manual in English? Please email us if you can help.

Dehler rudders
We are now becoming able to supply new rudders for many Dehler yachts at a very competitive price. We can also supply rudder bearings for later Dehlers in addition to those for earlier yachts

2008 Regatta
A hardy group of Dehler sailors put up a good show at the Poole Regatta in May. Martin Pearson's Dehler 33 Ruthless was a class winner and Garry Willard on Giddy Gazelle and Brian Thompson and Ivor Graham on Deity dominated much of the Dehler activity. Chris Hughes and his crew on Riverdance from Plymouth also did very well. Jaap Metzlar and a very competent looking crew came over from the Netherlands and appeared to be potential winners but sadly had to leave us and return home after the first day - its to be hoped that they will be able to join us again next year.

We were joined on Spirit of Peponi by Alice and Roberto from Milan. They are able sailors and we hope that they can join us again in the future. They had good tales of sailing their Dehler 34 in the warmer climes of the Ligurian Sea. On the first day we were helped greatly byTony Bertram of Dolphin Sails who joined us to ensure that our new sails were setting correctly - which they were!

2007 Regatta images
Tony Rowe has painstakingly assembled images from the regatta together with images from the prizegiving and these are now posted on the Gallery pages

Dehler 34 masts available
Repaired masts and spreaders 2003 Dehler 34s are available on the Isle of Wight - email for details

Dolphin Sails

We are very pleased to say that Dolphin Sails are contributing to the cost of running our site - several Dehler owners have emailed to say how happy they are with the performance of their Dolphin sails. Tony Bertram who is extremely knowledgable concerning sails is their South Coast representative - email us if you would like to talk to him.

Comments

Kim needs a new control panel (panel over the chart table) for her Dehler 35CWS please email if you have any suggestions for this as we have been unable to find the original replacement.

Robert Greig is the new owners of a Dehler 38CWS he would like to make contact with other 38CWS owners. Please email and we will pass on your details to him.

Robin Kane has a 1997 Dehler 28 cruising model and is desperately looking for a manual. If anyone has a copy and would like to share it please email.

If you have found a supplier for a particular item or made a significant modification to your Dehler yacht please let us know and we will post it on the site

Bernard Fuller would be pleased to receive any advice for tuning the rig on a Dehler 31 Please email if you can help (see forum).

There are a number of queries posted on the forum from the backstay mounting on a Dehler 22 to comments concerning rudder overhaul on a Dehler 41. If you can help please email

Danilo in Italy (see forum) is looking to make contact with other Dehler 34 owners.

Pierpaulo Monti in Italy has a 2004 D36SQ and is looking for owners of similar yachts to share thoughts and suggestions with (see forum)

Lawrence Freemen is looking for help (see forum) on replacing the furling jib on a Dehler 43 - can anyone help?

Robert Meyer is looking for help in understanding the rudder assembly on his Dehler 34 Optima (see forum).

Peter van Leeuwen in Lanzarote is bringing a Dehler 38 back to her former glory and would like to contact other owners of this model (see forum).

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Gavin Ashworth
www.dehlerowners.co.uk

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