Boating New Zealand – April 2018

44 Boating New Zealand

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$426,000 incl GST

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanse Yachts

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INFORMATION

CONTACT

Dominic Lowe

Team Windcraft New Zealand

http://www.teamwindcraft.com

Hanse 418

loa 12.40m

hull length 11.99m

lwl 11.40m

beam 4.17m

draft 1.74m shallow

2.10m L keel, medium

displacement 10.10t shallow

keel, 9.8t L-keel, medium

engine Yanmar 39hp

(57hp option)

mast length 19.8m

working sail area 87m^2

gennaker 120m^2

SPECIFICATIONS

Easy for

short-handed sailing

Glorious

headroom!

User-friendly

cockpit

HIGHLIGHTS

RACE FINISH

In the light air we continued our beat towards

Waiheke, and with a jostle near the fnish line we

made our only bad call and missed a wind shift. Still –

ffth out of 15 similar-sized yachts in our class is very

satisfying considering it was Independence’s second

sail and the crew’s frst race.

Heading into Owhanake Bay we anchored among

the feet. A few seconds later the boarding platform

was down and Campbell was happily doing bombs of

the transom.

Even though we had a maximum of 10 knots of

wind, the yacht’s excellent performance was easily

evident – she moves nicely through the water with

minimal wake. On her frst sail, says Harley, with

15 knots apparent wind just forward of the beam,

Independence clocked along with 9 knots on the dial.

Te 418 is a quality production yacht that

easily meets the family’s easy-to-sail-short-handed

criteria. She’s a well-appointed, fast cruiser with

fexible accommodation. She’s also the result of

designers listening to customer feedback and making

improvements in a number of areas, from layout,

through standard of detailing, to fnish. Tere are

some excellent new touches – like USB power outlets

on the LED light fttings.

Hanse’s design philosophy, says Windcraft’s

Dominic Lowe, is to bring the luxury and standard of

fnish of its larger vessels right the way through the

range to the smallest boats. I think it’s succeeding.

Independence is a yacht the family will easily grow

into – discovering much about her charms in the

process – and no doubt about themselves. BNZ