Hanse 315 vs HR 36

The Baltic "family thirties" filter often puts a Hanse 315 next to a Hallberg-Rassy 36. In the listings both ride as "thirty-something feet," and that is the only line where their lengths match. On the plate the argument is already different: 9.45 m of German aft cockpit against a Swedish centre cockpit in the class around 11 m. Until metres and cockpit are closed, the buyer is comparing the wrong length class, not the two forms in this pair.

In this pair the Hanse 315 is read only as Judel/Vrolijk with an aft cockpit from Greifswald, years 2006-2012, 9.45×3.20 m, about 4.3 t. Print run for this form is not confirmed by yard paper, so a hull count from a listing cannot be checked. Reject titles with 1995, the generation from 2016 near 9.62×3.35 m, and the false deck-saloon badge (as if a walk-through coachroof turned the boat into a deck saloon).

On the HR 36 side only the Frers centre cockpit from Ellös 1989-2003 works, with about 602 hulls. Size: 3.55 m beam and roughly 7.5 t. The step from Mk I (1-256, 1989-1994, hull about 10.87 m) to Mk II (257-602, 1994-2003, about 11.31 m) shows in the transom and aft platform - without hull number, year, and a stern photo the cards do not glue. If Enderlein appears in a write-up of this 36, the plate has not been read yet.

The dispute here is not "who is shorter in feet" but entry into a compact German aft at 9.45 m against a Swedish centre cockpit with recognisable secondary depth around 602. Berth and insurance feel the ~9.5 versus ~11 m class split at once; exit depth from the deal does too.

Once the boat is out of the water, three things are checked the same on both: how old the standing-rigging wire is, whether the deck dips after frost, and whether a folder of winter invoices exists. On the Hanse the main points are the keel-to-hull joint and how the stanchions sit in the deck; at the same time confirm you do not have a 1995 title, a 2016 generation, or a deck-saloon badge. On the HR the list is different: whether screws still hold the teak deck, the state of the metal fittings that join shrouds to the hull, and whether the stern matches the claimed Mk.

Season budget between these length classes is berth, policy, crane with winter storage, deck or teak reserve, wire and engine. The SEK bands below show order of magnitude only, not your marina invoice.

Listing price and what an independent survey will write are not decided on this page. The keel joint on the Hanse, remaining teak on the HR, and wire age become clear after the haul.