2008 Hanse 540e Sold Boat in San Diego, CA 92101 US

$340,000

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builtBuilt in 2008
Year the boat was built
model

540e

Boat model
engine

1 Engine (Yanmar)

Engine type and count
length

54 feet

Overall boat length
fuel

Diesel

Fuel type
material

Fiberglass/Reinforced

Hull material

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Price$340,000$349,000$327,495$315,000$315,000$299,500
LocationSan DiegoPoint Reyes StationSan DiegoAlamedaEmeryvilleMarina Del Rey
Nominal Length54'44'38'45'46'45'
Beam16'-----
Draft9'-----
Engine MakeYanmarYanmarYANMARVolvoVolvoVolvo
Total Engine Power110 hp57 hp40 hp75 hp75 hp75 hp
Days on Market32916816918418596
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Nominal Length
54ft
Length Overall
52.83ft
Length at Waterline
47.92ft
Beam
16.08ft
Max Draft
9.17ft
Displacement
41226lb
Dry Weight
41226lb
Ballast
12804lb
Cruising Speed
7.82kn
Max Speed
10.43kn
Cabins
3
Heads
2
Max Passengers
16
Seating Capacity
12
Fresh Water Tanks
182gal
Fuel Tanks
99gal
Holding Tanks
40gal
Windlass
electric-windlass
Hull Material
fiberglass
Hull Shape
monohull
Engine 1
Engine Make
Yanmar
Total Power
110hp
Engine Hours
475
Engine Type
inboard
Fuel Type
diesel
Engine Year
2008
Drive Type
sail
Propeller Type
3-blade
Propeller Material
bronze
Teak Cockpit
Cockpit Shower
Electric Winch
Teak Sidedecks
Davits
Radar Reflector
Tender
Solar Panel
Cockpit Cushions
Cockpit Table
Swimming Ladder
Walk Around
Touch Screen
Bow Thruster
Electric Bilge Pump
Oven
Manual Bilge Pump
Microwave Oven
Air Conditioning
Electric Head
Heating
Hot Water
Refrigerator
Fresh Water Maker
Battery Charger
Depthsounder
Radar
Log Speedometer
Radar Detector
Wind Speed And Direction
Repeater
Tv Set
Navigation Center
Plotter
Autopilot
Radio
Compass
Gps
Cockpit Speakers
Vhf
Flat Screen Tv
Ais
Bimini Top
Spray Hood
Mainsail Cover
Genoa Cover
Shore Power Inlet
Generator
Inverter
Steering Wheel
Battened Mainsail
Gennaker Cruising Spinnaker
Furling Genoa
Highlighted Features & Equipment


Engine 110hp Yanmar turbo/ with HO Ballmar Alternator 475hours

2022 Renovated cooling system/turbo/starter

2022 Dual Racor Fuel Filters with bypass filterGenset Panda 217 hours

2022 Racor Fuel Filter

2022 11ea 100 amp hour AGM batteries 

2022 2 ea Victron Battery Chargers

2022 SolarArch with Dinghy Davits and Outboard Hoist

2022 3ea 340kw Solar Panels with Victron Solar Controller

2021 Inmar Alumilite Hypalon dinghy with  2022 Tohatsu 20hp (option $6,000)

2022 40gal/hr Water Maker

2022 Standing Rigging replaced

2022 Electric Jib Fuller

2022 All new Through Hull Valves

2022 Bottom Paint

2022 2es New Simrad 12” Evo3 Displays with Remote Auto Pilot Controls

2022 New Mast Head Tri-ColorLight/Anchor/Wind Speed/Direction

2022  New 22” Radar Dome/Mount

2022 Blue/White Spreader Lights

2022 Blue/White Underwater Lights

2022 New Custom Mattresses (All Cabins)

2022 New Dodger, Connelctor, Bimin, Covers. 

2022 New Cockpit Cushions

2022 Replaced Dinghy Garage Hatches/Door Seal

2023 New Shower Sump Pumps

2024 Booster Water Wash down Pumps Anchor and Transom

2024 New 330’ 3/8” Anchor Chain

2024 New Code 5 Spinnaker

2024 New Refrigerator 

2025 Fusion Radio

Boat Features 3 Cabin 3 Head 

Retractable Bow Thruster

Large Sail Locker

Dinghy Garage

Self tacking jib optional use

Full battened Main 

Vertical battened Genoa

The old sail inventory stored offsite. Storm, Spinnaker, Genaker, Jib

Sail Area


I : 70.92 ft

J : 19.58 ft

P : 70.42 ft

E : 21.33 ft

Working Sail Area : 1668.00 sq ft

Additional Description
  • High quality marine plywood, mahogany veneer, satin varnish
  • Option: American cherry, satin varnish
  • White bulkheads
  • Wooden door frames
  • Wood / Sandwich doors
  • Teak styled floor squares in the saloon, individually to be opened
  • the optional pricelist shows an alternative floor to our standard teak

Upholstery

  • According to Hanse colour selection

Forward cabin

  • Version B1 Owner cabin with island berth, extensive hanging lockers and drawers including a head and shower unit in owners state room
  • Options according to Hanse Individual Cabin Concept

Main Saloon

  • Version C 1
  • Large saloon table
  • Lockers
  • L-shaped sofa on portside
  • 2 retractable and ergonomic chairs
  • Options according to Hanse Individual Cabin Concept

Navigation area

  • Seat with storage
  • Locker above chart table for instruments and books
  • Space to mount electronics
  • 110 V / 230 V / 12 V outlet
  • Storage in the chart table
  • Chart light

Aft cabin

  • Version D1
  • 2 double aft cabins with locker space
  • Each cabin with individual head and shower

Interior Concepts

  • Different layouts, according to Hanse Individual Cabin Concept

Head / Shower

  • Toilet and shower in forward cabin with electrical toilet
  • Toilet and shower in the aft cabin with manual toilet
  • CoreanTM solid surface black quartz with sink
  • Electrical drain pump
  • Mirror
  • Locker & shelves
  • Opening hatch
Additional Description
  • 12V / 24 V and 110 V 

Batteries

  • Main battery switches
  • Engine battery 12 V / 80 Ah
  • Service/winch battery bank:12 V / 310 Ah batteries

Battery charger / Shore power

  • Battery charger 12 V / 50 A
  • Isolator switch
  • 2 x 110 V / 230 V shore supply protected with differential breaker and distribution system

Electric switch panel 110 V 

  • 2 differential breakers
  • Control gauges
  • Voltmeter

Electric switch panel 12 V

  • Switches for all onboard electrics
  • Voltmeter and battery control
  • Water / Fuel gauges

12 V Electric equipment

  • Electrical anchor windlass
  • Electrical winch, 54 AEST
  • Pumps
  • Navigation lights
  • Interior lights
  • Refrigerator
  • Freezer frontloading

Outlets 110 V 

  • at chart table twin outlet
  • in fwd. cabin one each
  • in aft. cabin one each
  • in galley twin outlet
  • in saloon twin outlet
  • in heads one each

Outlets 12 V

  • at chart table
  • at helm station

Interior lighting

  • Overhead lighting in cabins, saloon, galley and heads
  • Lighting in engine compartment
  • Reading lights in saloon and cabins
  • Night light on companion way
  • Indirect lighting
  • Storage room aft
Additional Description
  • Solid surface, CoreanTM black quartz with integrated double sink
  • 3-burner LPG stove with oven, gimbled
  • Gas system and self draining LPG bottle storage in cockpit
  • Microwave
  • Extra large fridge of approx. 130 l, top and front loader with light
  • Freezer, front loader, capacity approx. 80l
  • Lockers and drawers
  • Trash can
Additional Description
  • Yanmar 4JH4HTBE, 81 KW / 110 HP, diesel engine
  • Stainless steel shaft
  • 3 bladed propeller
  • 1 alternator 12 V / 80 Amp
  • Fuel tank, capacity approx. 375 l
  • Fuel infill on deck
  • Fuel filter / Water separator
  • Engine room sound insulated and illuminated with room for generator above engine
Additional Description
  • Hull built with prepreg fibreglass fabrics in epoxy, vacuum cured with CorecellTM foam, postcured
  • White hull with blue double water lines
  • Options for different hull colours according to Hanse colour selection
  • Opening transom
  • Dinghy storage in the aft compartment
  • GRP strongback
  • Hull windows
Additional Description
  • Deck white
  • Hand laid sandwich construction, thermal and sound insulated

Deck Equipment

  • Teak on side decks
  • Teak on seats and cockpit floor
  • Teak partly on coach roof
  • Partial moulded non-skid surface on the coach roof
  • Engine control at helm station stb
  • 6 retractable mooring cleats
  • Self-draining anchor locker with electrical windlass under deck
  • Flush retractable anchor davit with anchor roller and spring lifting assistance for storage inside the locker
  • Stainless steel cockpit table with acrylic glass and chart plotter bracket
  • Foredeck sail storage
  • Hot & cold shower on aft deck
  • Self-draining cockpit
  • Halyard storage boxes in the cockpit
  • Storage for gas bottle, selfdraining
  • Stainless steel swim ladder
  • Hinged swimming platform
  • Genoa tracks with pin stop cars
  • Selftacking jib track, fully integrated in the foredeck
  • Mainsheet on coach roof
  • 2 x 6 sheave deck organizers
  • 12 deck jammers
  • Padeyes for gennaker
  • 7 hatches
  • 2 Flush hatches on the coach roof
  • Opening portholes in cockpit
  • Stainless steel pushpit with navigation light and ensign shaft socket
  • Stainless steel split pulpit with navigation lights
  • Stainless steel stanchions tapered
  • Rail gates on both sides
  • 4 winches in cockpit: 1 electrical all purpose winch 54 AEST on starboard halyard position, 1 primary winch 54 AST, 2 secondary winches 46 AST
Additional Description

Navigation lights

  • Navigation lights on pulpit and pushpit
  • Steaming light
  • Anchor light

Navigation instruments

  • Compass illuminated
  • Speedometer and depth sounder on a combi display at each helm
Rig and Sails
  • 2 spreader silver anodised mast, tapered
  • Boom with 2 reefing lines
  • Cockpit light integrated in boom
  • Furling system for jib
  • Main halyard
  • Jib halyard
  • Main sheet
  • Jib sheet
  • Rod kicker
  • Maindrop system with Lazy Jacks, colour: light-grey
  • Backstay adjuster
Keel
  • Standard composite iron / lead keel
  • Performance draft: 2.80 m / 9´2½
  • Stainless steel keel bolts
Plumbing System /Fresh Water

Tank

  • Fresh water tanks, capacity approx. 690 l
  • Water infill on deck

Hot water

  • 40 l water heater, running from engine and immersion heater 110 V / 230 V
Disclaimer

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

Price History

DateEventPrice
10/16/25Initial price$340,000

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Overview from around the web 2008 Hanse 540e

The 2008 Hanse 540e is highly praised by customers for its spacious and modern design, impressive performance under sail, and comfortable living accommodations

Owners often highlight its innovative deck layout, which offers excellent handling and ease of movement for the crew. The interior is noted for its bright, airy atmosphere, quality craftsmanship, and ample storage space, making it ideal for extended cruising. Many appreciate the boat’s balance of speed and stability, as well as its reliable systems and well-thought-out features. Overall, the Hanse 540e is regarded as a versatile and enjoyable sailing yacht that combines comfort with strong sailing capabilities.

The Biggest Pros and Cons

The 2008 Hanse 540e is a popular sailing yacht known for its blend of performance, comfort, and innovative design. Here are some of the key pros and cons of this model:

Pros

Spacious Interior: The 540e offers a roomy and well-thought-out interior layout, providing comfortable living spaces for extended cruising.

Modern Design: With sleek lines and a contemporary aesthetic, the Hanse 540e stands out both in the marina and on the water.

Performance-Oriented: Designed with performance in mind, it features a powerful sail plan and responsive handling, making it enjoyable to sail.

Easy Handling: Equipped with modern sailing systems, including efficient winches and controls, it is manageable by a small crew or even single-handed sailors.

Good Build Quality: Constructed with quality materials and craftsmanship, ensuring durability and reliability.

Ample Storage: Plenty of storage space below deck for gear and provisions, ideal for long voyages.

Customization Options: Various interior and equipment configurations allow owners to tailor the yacht to their preferences.

Cons

Draft Considerations: With a relatively deep draft, the 540e may be less suitable for shallow waters or certain cruising grounds.

Maintenance Costs: As with many performance cruisers, upkeep and maintenance can be on the higher side, especially as the boat ages.

Limited Cockpit Seating: While comfortable, the cockpit seating may be less spacious compared to some other yachts in its class.

Complex Systems: The advanced sailing and onboard systems might require a learning curve for less experienced sailors.

Price Point: Depending on the market and condition, the initial investment can be significant compared to other boats with similar size.

Made For

The 2008 Hanse 540e is designed for experienced sailors and cruising enthusiasts who value a combination of performance, comfort, and modern design. It's ideal for those seeking a spacious and well-appointed yacht suitable for extended voyages, family adventures, or coastal cruising. With its sleek lines and advanced sailing features, the Hanse 540e caters to sailors who appreciate both speed and luxury on the water.

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