Removing headliner panels
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Topic: Removing headliner panels
Posted By: Lhsrris218
Subject: Removing headliner panels
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 16:38
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Hi. Any tips on how to remove the headliner in the salon area? Thanks
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Posted By: marsella
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 20:18
If you say what you are trying to accomplish, there maybe some better ideas than removing those panels
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Posted By: Lhsrris218
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 20:37
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New boat had a leak into the salon dripping from the headliner. Dealer said it was coming from the windshield - said he fixed it. Now there is brown discoloration where the leak was. Dealer refused to take pictures of the repair and when asked about mold remediation and what was growing up there he refused to answer. Im worried about a mold infestation and want to inspect the area myself.
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Posted By: marsella
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 20:41
| You can likely use endoscope camera, pull out the closest bulb, insert the camera and inspect everything. |
Posted By: Lhsrris218
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 21:04
| Thanks - but if I did need to take them down, are they on clips, how much force etc |
Posted By: Wayne's World
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 21:15
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Lhsrris, Can't answer for the very new models but all the ceiling linings on our 2014 - 575 are held up with industrial Velcro. You need to apply a lot of force to get the "peeling" of the Velcro started but they will come down. I found putting them back up was a challenge and ended up having to use a length of wood and hitting this with a soft hammer to get the industrial Velcro to successfully catch again. As Marsella mentioned you could use a endoscope to look at the connection. You should be able to see the fixing - Velcro. ------------- Wayne W Cruising, currently in the Pacific until the end of 2026. |
Posted By: marsella
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 21:37
| Live would be much easier with velcro but I heard Hanse stopped using it, they are glueing everything these days |
Posted By: Wayne's World
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 21:52
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Standard velcro, self adhesive type will often peel away in high temperature areas but on our boat the industrial Velcro is glued and then stapled and over 12 year we have not had a problem. I have seen on other boats a clip system used where you use a sucker to pull a corner at a time down. I think gluing would be a major step backwards if that is what they are doing now. ------------- Wayne W Cruising, currently in the Pacific until the end of 2026. |
Posted By: marsella
Date Posted: 13 November 2025 at 22:00
| Yes that is what my Hanse rep explained when I asked them how to remove the headliner. To be exact, this is Hanse 458, 2020 |
Posted By: Lhsrris218
Date Posted: 18 November 2025 at 12:04
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So - confirmed. On a 2024 hanse 460 the headliner is glued on. Looking throught the light socket, there is a fiberglass space and the panels are upholstered and glued to the underside of the fiberglass. Still.not sure how water is getting into the area - the dealer revealed the windshield but it doesn't seem to penetrate the deck structure. Does anyone know what lies beneath this removable panel on deck?
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Posted By: 32mike
Date Posted: 18 November 2025 at 13:22
That should be the hatch garage. It’s just a cover for the companionway sliding hatch when it is slid forward. Not sure about the 460, but on the 458, it is held on by several screws and it is a very long piece that has legs that cover the sides of the hatch when it is closed. Underneath it and the hatch itself is just more fiberglass of the coach roof.
  ------------- Mike S/V Dulces Sueños 458 #087 Tampa, FL |
Posted By: marsella
Date Posted: 18 November 2025 at 14:34
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The water goes in via the area around the deck hatches. 458 has 4, 460 is likely similar. The fiberglass hull is not rigid and moving all the time. Additional stress comes if you keep the boat on a boatyard, the lift straps are doing this. From what I learned by reading many posts the hatches are embedded into the hull with some sealant like polyurethane based sika flex. Its somewhat flexible but not sufficient to absorb the micromovements that produce the cracks in the sealant. Also the hatches aluminum frames are covered with some powder which does not stick well to aluminum and this produces additional cracks. There is ton of discussion here about it and how to fix it. Many remove the hatches and rebed them, some buy new hatches, some fight with Lewmar, which manufactures those hatches. When I got those leaks when the boat was 3 yo, I got boatlife sealant and went over the perimeter of each hatch with it and sealed them. So far so good, no leaks. The marine sealants are polyurethane based, mix of polyurethane and silicon, and silicon based. Boatlife makes all three. Silicon is the softest, polyurethane is the hardest. I went with the mix of polyurethane and silicon, forgot how it was branded by Boatlife but its easy to figure out. I decided if this one will crack and leaks return, I would go with Boatlife silicon, but so far so good.
Pretty easy to do, btw, I sealed all hatches on my boat. Take a masking tape, surround the perimeter of the hatch, apply sealant, remove masking tape  |