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I have spent a little time on a 37 foot Hanse, including crawling round in the lockers installing a set of cleats and backing blocks in preparation for Hurricane Isabelle. What I saw looked to be very high quality workmanship. The laminate looked great, uniformly saturated and with uniformly narrow interstitual resin lines. The boats do have some creative thinking that may or may not appeal to everyone but they seem to be well thought through.
I like their modern hull and foils coupled with their more traditional visual character. Performance is quite reasonable but not at the level of the boats intended to be more race oriented such as the Beneteau First 36.7 or 40.7. (By the way the Bene 405 is a very different boat than the others being kicked around and is not one that I am fond of.) Their rating on the Chesapeake seems like a real gift, but I have not tried to race the Hanse yet.
I found the winches up to the task, (remember these are fractional rigs and so sheet loads are much smaller). I don't like the specifiocs of the cabin top mounted mainsheet, which restricts sail shaping or the ability to make quick adjustements. I'd probably order one with the traveller in the cockpit but that may just be me. The mainsail is not overly large (frankly quite small when compared to my 38 foot, 5000 lb lighter, fractional rigged boat), which makes the boat easy to handle but as a result, you will want a genoa for a predomently light air venue.
Jeff
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