Hanse 510
Hanse · Berret/Racoupeau · 2025
Updated
The Hanse 510 is a 15.19 m displacement racing yacht designed by Berret/Racoupeau and built by Hanse, first launched in 2025. It races in Class A.
Length
15.19 m
49′ 10″
Beam
4.91 m
Draft
2.52 m
Displacement
21.0 t
Sail area
113 m²
On the podium
Where a Hanse 510 finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
28%
of 18 starts by 1 boat
Wins
11%
Read from 18 starts by 1 boat between 2025, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Hanse 510 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
ORC European Championship 2025 / 43rd Copa del Rey MAPFRE2025
151 Miglia - Trofeo Cetilar2025- 70a Regata dei Tre Golfi2025
- Campionato Invernale del Ponente2025
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
33%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
—
Not enough data yet: 3 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Hanse 510 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
M 34 (7 meetings), Elan 31 (Humphreys) (7 meetings), Corby 25 (7 meetings), Mescal 31 (7 meetings), Grand Soleil 34 (Skyron) (7 meetings), Bavaria 230 (7 meetings), Corsa 915 (7 meetings), J/122 (2 meetings), Swan 42 (2 meetings), Farr 40 (2 meetings), Este 39 (2 meetings), Elan 310 (2 meetings), Italia 11.98 (1 meeting), Dufour 34 (1 meeting), Bavaria 36 (1 meeting), J/40 (1 meeting), IMX 45 (1 meeting)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Hanse 510 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
6.03
40°
Beam reach
9.69
90°
Broad reach
10.04
135°
Downwind VMG
8.45
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
This one is at home going to windward. Windward-leeward courses give it more of what it is good at than a coastal race does.
Where it gains
Its best ground is on a reach in a working breeze, where it goes better than its measurements say it should, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short off the wind in a strong breeze, giving away time it never gets back. That is a displacement hull working to its designed speed.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.8 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Hanse 510
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.50 | 4.94 | 5.64 | 6.03 |
| 52° | 5.46 | 7.38 | 8.25 | 8.68 |
| 60° | 5.82 | 7.70 | 8.54 | 8.97 |
| 75° | 6.08 | 7.95 | 8.82 | 9.34 |
| 90° | 6.23 | 8.25 | 9.12 | 9.69 |
| 110° | 5.95 | 8.23 | 9.27 | 10.29 |
| 120° | 5.70 | 8.06 | 9.18 | 10.34 |
| 135° | 5.04 | 7.43 | 8.85 | 10.04 |
| 150° | 4.22 | 6.51 | 8.09 | 9.30 |
| Run VMG | 3.66 | 5.63 | 7.01 | 8.45 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Nearly all carry a folding propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 1020 kg.
Rigging
Hanse 510 rig and sail dimensions
A Hanse 510 carries 19.56 m of mainsail hoist on a 5.87 m boom, a forestay 19.77 m above the deck and a 6.73 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 2 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails