Wind Dancer

Hanse 455 "Wind Dancer"

Wind Dancer layout
  • Year: 2015
  • LOA: 45' 7"
  • Beam: 14' 4"
  • Draft: 7' 4"
  • Keel: Fin keel with bulb
  • Displacement: 25,570 lbs
  • 3 staterooms plus 2 heads. Master stateroom (forward) features an island queen berth, and en suite head with electric Jabsco toilet, and separate en suite shower room. Two equally-sized guest staterooms aft, each with a queen-sized berth, hanging locker and shelf storage. Guest head (aft) offers electric Jabsco toilet and separate stall shower.
  • Starboard settee converts to a double berth
  • Sleeps up to 8; ideal for 6
  • Espar diesel forced air cabin heater (x2)
  • Leather upholstery
  • LED interior lighting
  • Seated nav station
  • Cockpit and companionway courtesy lights
  • Screens and blinds for hatches, blinds for ports
  • Fusion stereo with Bluetooth audio link, docking station and cockpit remote
  • Salon and cockpit speakers
  • Flat screen TV with Bluray DVD player
  • New (2024): Starlink internet connectivity
  • 55HP Volvo diesel engine with saildrive and 3-blade MaxProp feathering prop
  • Retractable bow thruster
  • Cruising speed: 8 knots
  • House battery bank: 3 x 160 aH AGM batteries (new in 2020)
  • Start battery: 1 x 90 aH AGM (new in 2020)
  • Thruster battery: 1 x 90 aH AGM (new in 2020)
  • Shorepower (30 amp)
  • Victron battery monitor
  • Victron Multiplus 2000 watt inverter/charger
  • 110v and 12v outlets throughout boat
  • LED navigation and anchor lights
  • Eno gimbaled 3-burner propane stove with oven
  • Isotherm refrigerator with top and front access
  • Separate freezer drawer
  • Microwave
  • Double SS sink
  • Hot/cold pressure water
  • Quartz black countertops
  • Propane BBQ mounted on stern rail
  • B&G Zeus 3 chart plotter display at starboard helm
  • B&G Zeus 2 chart plotter display at port helm
  • B&G 4G broadband radar
  • AIS (send and receive)
  • B&G Triton 2 multifunction repeater at each helm
  • B&G Autopilot
  • Wind speed and depth transducers
  • B&G VHF with wireless remote
  • Compass
  • Elvstrom FCL Cruising Laminate full-batten mainsail with 2 reefs, lazy bag and lazy jacks
  • Elvstrom FCL Cruising Laminate self-tacking furling jib
  • North Sails asymmetric spinnaker with top-down furler (available by advance request with approved spinnaker resume)
  • Rigid boom vang
  • Electric primary winches
  • Large sail locker in forepeak
  • Primary anchor: 44lb Delta anchor with 200' chain and 100' rope rode
  • Secondary anchor
  • Electric windlass with remote
  • New (2022): Dodger and bimini
  • Full enclosure available by advance request
  • Cockpit and helm seat cushions
  • Folding cockpit table
  • Fold down transom with swim ladder
  • Hot/cold pressure cockpit shower
  • 9' 5" AB aluminum-bottom RIB dinghy
  • 9.9 HP Honda outboard
  • Stern dinghy davit
  • Water: 118 gallons
  • Fuel: 58 gallons
  • Holding: 29 gallons
    2024 Rates:
  • Summer: $6750
  • Spring/Fall: $6075
  • Early Spring/Late Fall: $5400

Special Opportunities

Courses & Stateroom Bookings Spring & Summer Guided Flotillas Fall Guided Flotillas
Stateroom Bookings 10-Day Sunshine Coast 7-Day Independence Celebration 7-Day San Juans & Saanich
Women-Only LNC 31-Day Broughton Islands 7-Day Women-only San Juan Islands 14-Day Desolation Sound
Advanced Learn-n-Cruise 7-Day Victoria & the Gulf Islands 7-Day San Juan Islands 10-Day End of Season Hoorah