Hans Groop

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Hans Groop (born 1932) is a Finnish yacht designer based in Helsinki.{{cite web |url=http://www.h-40.se/beskrivning/hans-groop |title=H-40 » Hans Groop |accessdate=27 June 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811132720/http://www.h-40.se/beskrivning/hans-groop |archivedate=11 August 2010 }}

Groop was born in Vaasa. He has designed more than a hundred yachts and motorboats, the most famous being the H-boat, one of the most popular yacht classes in the world. Groop has been a lifelong member of the Helsingfors Segelsällskap, a leading yacht club for smaller keelboats in the Nordics. The club initiated the H-boat in 1967 to replace the popular but by then outmoded Hai.

Some of his other designs are the H-35, H-40, H-star, H-323, Targa 42, Targa 96, Finnsailor 34 and 29, Degerö 33, Joe 17, Joe 34, Netta, IS 400, Artina 29 and Artina 33 as well as a lot of one-off boats.[https://sailboatdata.com/designer/groop-hans?paginate=200&page=1 SailboatData.com – sailboat designs of Hans Groop by year] Groop has also designed boats of the 5.5 Metre class.{{cite web | url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/lång/hans-groop | title=Hans Groop | work=Nationalencyklopedin }}