Delivery of boats in Greifswald April 2011

Was in Greifswald to the acquisition of our Hanse 325 on Friday 8 April. Had agreed takeover at 0800 with Fjord Sailing. We arrived at 0740 and were greeted by two smiling early birds from Fjord Sailing was already in place by boat. We went through the boat after being informed of a couple of things that they had not had time before we came. besides that they were informed, we found no errors or omissions. what they had been informed were mostly arranged during the day. it blew dogs and cats in Greifswald on Friday so it was no walk out on the water that day. But Saturday we awoke to glorious sunshine and that fit with the wind for a trial voyage (12-18 knots) Boat, sails and weather was absolutely perfect. Everything worked as it should and myself were happy enough. After all the negative one has been able to read about delivery and poor quality one was the more naturally a bit skeptical prior to arrival, but this was totally unfounded. So big thanks to Dag and Raymond from Fjord Sailing and their hired German serviceman Tom did more than expected and made ​​the acquisition a very positive experience. After all the negative one has been able to read about delivery and poor quality one was the more naturally a bit skeptical prior to arrival, but this was thoroughly ashamed

Janni, congratulations to your new boat! I'm sure that you will be very happy with it. The seavalve solution is definetly one stupid solution!! Is it not possible to saw a hole and make a lid to it as it is on the other boats for various things? I assume that the handle for the valve have to be shortened but it would still be easiet to access.

Edited by MarcoC - 04 July 2011 at 10:55

Hi Charles,
the seacock is the one to supply the heads, flushing water for the toilet.
It is lockated directly in front of the the door to the heads, at the side of the charttable.
My guess is that they took the hull from the actual 325 production with related seacocks and that they have put the 320 floorplan / interiour on top, so that the hatch for the seavalve is missing.

Janni

We have finally received the boat with a hatch to access the seacock. All claims have been handled before we left Greifswald about a week after the handover.
We have sailed the boat from Greifswald to Eckernförde in fantastic weather, blue sky all over for the whole week.

Up to now, we only found minor issues with the boat.
We had a heavy rainshower last Sunday and found water ingress at the aft of the boat in the aft cabin. We opened the inspection hatch and found that the water comes from the throttle handle.
Today we claimed with our dealer Nordlicht, who has been working ok so far.
Another issue is the heating, where the exhaust pipe is openly mounted in the big locker.
From our point of view, dangerous, as any item moving on the pipe can be put to fire....

We did not find any issue with the windows yet, they seem to be watertight. There is no water visible at the bilge, at none of the inspection hatches.
Also after some heavy rolling and pitching, everything is still dry.
I will let you know any news.
Janni

In general, we are quite satisfied with the boat.
We have a couple of minor issues, which are being sorted out by our Hanse Dealer, Nordlicht. We had a small hole in the Gelcoat, which has been repaired by the Nordlicht technian just last week. He also sealed the motor panel with some Sika.
With which material did you seal the handle?
Do you have some pictures?
Janni