Opposite the galley is the head with separate stall shower, which to me, is a must-have. Drawer refrigeration is a nice touch that is more and more prevalent on sailboats everywhere.
415 BREEZE WAY UPGRADE
The galley (long or short version) could use the upgrade to the three-burner stove and microwave oven. The aft cabins are of decent size but have sparse stowage. The standard, and my favorite, is a two-cabin, one-head version with the enormous stowage compartment accessible via the cockpit or interior doors. The owners gets to decide what combination of all the above will suit their needs best. The aft section offers two cabins or one with a starboard-side workroom and/or lazarette. The middle section holds the saloon, main head and changeable galley. The master stateroom is in the forward section, with or without an optional head. The choices go beyond the usual menu of interior fabrics and wood tints to complete layout and configuration differences because the boat is modular. The Hanse 415 is a production boat but it offers dozens of customization options.
Multiple interior options mean you can semi-customize the 415 to include a work station, settees, and many different interior layouts. Jefa steering from Denmark is standard and makes the wheels light and responsive, so you can pretend you’re racing with one finger on the wheel and a beverage in the other hand. The rock star black carbon wheels really add a serious look to the cockpit and will make anyone feel like a racer.
It will be a target for those who lose their footing when the boat heels and then grab for the first thing they see. I don’t, however, care for the placement of the charplotter on top of the aft end of the folding cockpit table.
415 BREEZE WAY FULL
The entire setup is ideal for sailing short-handed and even if you have a boat full of people, there’s no need to disturb the social area in the cockpit because all controls (lines, gauges, engine levers, etc.) are aft and out of the way. Electric winches are an option for push-button sailing. A set of stoppers on either side frees these winches to be used for the optional gennaker if needed. The halyard winches are farther aft on the cockpit coaming near the primaries and are within reach of the helmsman, which makes sense. Instead, the space under the optional dodger is reserved for cubbies designed to hold sunglasses, cellphones, tubes of sunscreen and the like. The fractional rig is deck-stepped and has mid-boom sheeting which is not ideal, but does keep the cockpit clutter-free. Up top, the 415 is driven by a self-tacking jib which is ideal when sailing shorthanded, and a standard main which you can tame with either lazy jacks and a StackPack, or in-mast furling. The standard keel is T-shaped and draws 6’ 9” but for skinny water you can opt for the L-shaped shoal keel that saves 1’ 2” in draft. But for racing, there’s still plenty of room for crew to attend to winches without feeling cramped. The cockpit segregates the social area forward from the control hub aft. Flush hatches and few toe-stubbers means quick progress can be made from the anchor locker forward, all the way aft to the manually-operated drop-down transom that forms a terrific swim platform. Because the shrouds are attached well outboard the decks are wide and clear, moving around aboard is easy. The complete lack of drama in sail management and tacking made this reviewer want take her out on a windier day, even completely singlehanded. We took the 415 out on a calm day in California and had unexpected amounts of fun even on a wind-challenged day. The German styling is as apparent in the look of the Hanse 415, just as the engineering is apparent in the way this boat handles when single-handed sailing.
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