Hans Christian Yachts

Hans Christian is a brand of heavilybuilt cruising sailboats.
My name is John Gascoigne (74) of Brentwood, CA. I was reading your history page of the Hans Christian looking for information on John Edwards (original designer of the Hans Christian). John was my Jr. High School Electronics teacher in Los Angeles in 1959. He was an innovator and motivator. I still remember his can-do attitude. Years later after my university time, I became his student teacher in his electric shop. At that time, he would let me teach the students while he went to a separate room in his shop. There he began designing his dream Yacht, later to be called the Hans Christian. At the end of the school year, he decided to take a leave of absence from teaching. He make me promise that if his new yacht project didn't work out, that I would give him his old position back as shop teacher. He went north to Washington state to meet with his naval architects to refine his design. I never heard from him again. I heard stories of him having the largest yacht building yard in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
History.
Most designs are credited to Robert H. Perry, Harwood Ives, Scott Sprague and Tommy Chen. Boat production began in the early 1970s.
In the mid 1980s Hans Christian Yachts commissioned the designing of a new series of boats based on a more modern hull design with the goal of the "ultimate cruising sailboat." The end result was the Christina series with the 52 and 48 models designed by Doug Peterson and Scott Sprague designing 40 and 43 versions. Construction was done in Taiwan at Horng Bin Marine Yacht boat yard and in the early 1990s the molds and construction were moved to Thailand.
Hans Christian today.
In November 2004 production of the traditional range of Hans Christian Yachts was transferred from Andersen Yachts Ltd to Pantawee Marine Co., Ltd.
In February 2017 Pantawee Marine Co., Ltd officially discontinued building the traditional range of Hans Christian sailing yachts including the 33T, 38MkII, 41T, 48T and Christina 43' to make way for production of other types of craft including catamarans under new management.