Accessories

Hi everyone

When I bought my 312 I did not opt for a fridge, but now I am fitting a charger it could be a useful item to have. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice on this? What type do Hanse fit? Where is it positioned? Is there a better solution?

Also I want to fit gauges to the diesel, water and holding tanks so I can tell how full they are. Has anyone done this? Any recommendations? I have been looking at the Vetus gauges.

Any help you can give would be gratefully received

Regards

Alan

Hi Thomas

Thanks for that. If you want to combine the fuel and water gauge Vetus supply a double gauge - see http://www.vetus.com which is purpose made.

I was also thinking of putting a gauge in the holding tank as if that gets full it overflows from the vent onto the side decks    -  not nice!! Sterling (who make the battery chargers) do a pneumatic tank gauge which sounds interesting. All that needs to be placed in the tank is a small tube. This sounds useful as there is no access hatch into the holding tank. Also there is no corrosion problem. You can find details of this gauge on http://www.sterling-power.com/index-l.htm.

My hull number is 312/222. I ordered the boat in November 2003 and took delivery in April this year. Mine has a lifting keel as she is kept at Christchurch on an alongside berth up the river and sits on the bottom at low water.

Kind Regards

Alan

I have all same problems.

My solution is keep cool box as is and buy portable fridge for keeping important items cool, this year I used cheap cool box ; but it drank the battery, next year I shall have proper portable fridge,and save grief on fitting insulating and noisey cooler fan, the box will be on deck when I am sleaping.

I modified fridge electric for 12 volt suply, that is heavy blue and red flex under sink near  pump and three star on fuse panel.

Fuel guage is to be old land rover sender mounted in removable panel on top of tank, this is stainless and will give to local engineer to drill, not a do in the boat job, this I shall connect to cheapest guage I can find, as when motor sailng the guage will always be hit and miss.

As I am plumber by trade the thought of going anywhere near sh*t tank at off time is strickly not on, sugest you do like the rest of us and keep emtying in the quite.

I cannot believe ther is a guage on earth the can handle the contents with out  a problem and then do you want to fix the problem.

Hello Alan!

If you use Isoterm ASU SP you have a cooler that is quiet because it does not use a fan. This is because the cooling media is cooled by the seawater and not by the air. This way it is also very effektive, a lot more than air cooling of the condensor. This is highly needed in Hanses fridge bedcause of the poor isolation ( just about 20mm between the two layers of thin composites)

Kind Regards

Mats

Hanse 371/204

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for that. You say that the ventilation holes were already cut on your boat. Where exactly are they as we don't appear to have them on our boat? Also, did you put additional insulation around the box?

We met you at Hamble soon after your boat was delivered. You were fitting a rope cutter to your saildrive at the time. We spoke to you as we were awaiting delivery of our 312 two weeks later. Has your rope cutter been a success? The reason I ask is that last August we became tangled in some underwater fishing gear off the French coast just south of the Alderney Race which left us anchored by the stern to the sea bed in a strong tide. We had to be rescued by a French lifeboat with a diver on board which cost us 1100 euros (fortunately we got most of it back from our insurance company!). We were sailing at the time so a cutter probably would have been no help in this instance but we have picked up discarded fishing tackle around our prop on numerous occasions in the past, and conditions sometimes make it unsafe to swim under the boat to deal with it.

Kind Regards

Alan