Impressions of boat

From a construction standpoint I’ve found Hanse to be towards the higher end of the mass produced market with generally good hulls and decks, nice molding and finishing quality and perhaps slightly more laminated in stiffening (bulkheads / webs) certainly than some of the French manufacturers I looked at when buying my boat. That may or may not still apply given the “0” series is a French design - but easily determined by poking around under the sole or behind lockers. As I keep saying all the fit out equipment is largely the same for all manufactures from oyster and Hallberg Rassy through to jeanneau - Selden masts, Lewmar deck gear, Elvstrom sails. Even HR are now using cast iron in the keel of their 370

That said, I would try your hardest to get Hanse to fit anodised rather than white powder coated hatch frames. This is known area of failure and I’m staggered they still use them given anodised is the same price. I’m still fixing leaks 7 years in despite having a very good dealer and of course there are a lot of hatches so if you can make this change it will pay dividends over the life of the boat. 

We've owned a Hanse 510 in a 3-cabin version since last year and are very happy with the yacht overall.

The size of the cockpit, the spaciousness below deck, and the dinghy garage are particularly appealing to us. The sailing performance, especially in the 15-20 knot range, is truly enjoyable.

The yacht's build quality is excellent. We initially had a few issues with the VHF radio due to a broken cable, but we were able to repair it.

When ordering, we recommend adding the Code 0 and the matching dinghy (from AER Marine) at the same time – then you'll enjoy the yacht right from the start!

Areas of complaint: terrible brass thuhulls (hopefully they use tru design now, I replaced all of mine) crappy tanks, and I really don’t like their bilges, bulge water routing, no good “low point”, undersized bilge pump, no pump in the sail locker , and how they let water into the ribbed box sections. No cleaning in there possible, and yucky stuff always ends up in bilges. Bilge is the worst part of the boat. 

Oh, factory DD1 autopilot good quality but undersized and failed repeatedly. I replaced with the DD2, which was not trivial. I would talk to them about an upgrade if they still specify the DD1. See my thread about it. https://www.myhanse.com/my-505-dd2-autopilot-upgrade_topic12431_page1.html

Other than that very pleased, lots more good than bad.