Harmony Yachts

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I have chartered a bareboat Harmony yacht in the Med, cant find much info about the brand, anybody got any experience of the boats? I took it in preference to a Bavaria, hope my choice was good!
 
I have chartered a Harmony 42 from Largs and was impressed with the performance (wing keel) - very quick boat and easily handled with no vices. The interior is a bit bland and functional but it was a charter boat.
 
Similar to beneteau's Cyclades range. Basic but sound and reasonably quick. Comfort level of most AWB standards. Fine for Med charter.
 
The only one that I have ever seen was towed into Isle de Groix by a lifeboat.

One month old ... the rudder had fallen off :eek:
 
The cheapest and nastiest of the cheap and nasty boats. OK for a charter but don't buy one. I chartered a nearly new one in the med a few years ago and quite a few things were already falling off or broken. The chap, who had bought a job lot of them, had someone from the factory there for many weeks fixing things. Almost impossible to hoist the main on all of them for some reason.
 
If I am not mistaken, they are built by an Italian company, Poncin.

Google Harmony Yachts, comes up top of the list for me.

Plomong

Poncin are a French company believe. My lad used to be really excited about me buying a boat and naming it after him - if I bought a Poncin Diva 44 I could go around saying "Fred's a Poncin' Diva, you know" :):) Not his real name by the way...
 
The cheapest and nastiest of the cheap and nasty boats. OK for a charter but don't buy one. I chartered a nearly new one in the med a few years ago and quite a few things were already falling off or broken. The chap, who had bought a job lot of them, had someone from the factory there for many weeks fixing things. Almost impossible to hoist the main on all of them for some reason.

Seems a bit harsh. Definitely an AWB but the ones I've seen have been OK, including a few in Charter. The 38 has better performance than I expected (or a better helmsman than me :o:o)
 
Poncin are a French company believe. My lad used to be really excited about me buying a boat and naming it after him - if I bought a Poncin Diva 44 I could go around saying "Fred's a Poncin' Diva, you know" :):) Not his real name by the way...

Yes, you're right -- I was mixing them up with another Italian company . . .

Plomong
 
The cheapest and nastiest of the cheap and nasty boats. OK for a charter but don't buy one. I chartered a nearly new one in the med a few years ago and quite a few things were already falling off or broken. The chap, who had bought a job lot of them, had someone from the factory there for many weeks fixing things. Almost impossible to hoist the main on all of them for some reason.
 

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Strange thing to say. How could you not hoist the mainsail?

We have never had an issue and after 18 years of owning a Harmony 34 nothing has fallen off.
 

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