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Bavaria 37 |
Brief details |
Builder |
Bavaria Yachtbau GmbH, Giebelstadt, Germany |
The Bavaria 37 is a modern family cruiser with a spacious interior giving either two or three separate sleeping cabins without using the saloon. The design, particularly the twin aft cabin version, was popular with charter companies, but many were also sold into private ownership. The example illustrated is the three cabin version with a conventional battened mainsail and the optional shallow draught (1.35M) keel. She was factory fitted with hull windows to the saloon as an option when new. |
LOA |
37' 11" |
Sail area |
682 sq ft main and genoa |
LWL |
29' 2" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
12' 1" |
Cabins |
2 or 3 plus saloon |
Draught |
4' 5" |
Berths |
5 or 7 |
Displacement |
11,819 lbs |
Engine |
Volvo MD2030 diesel |
Ballast |
3,925 lbs |
BHP |
29 |
Keel type |
Bulbed iron fin keel and spade rudder |
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Bavaria Yachtbau, in southern Germany, have
been building yachts since 1973. Initially they built fairly
expensive yachts, in small numbers, but since the mid 1990s
have been concentrating on volume production of spacious family
cruising boats, that have proved equally popular with private
buyers and charter fleets.
In production from around 1999 until 2003, the Bavaria 37 was designed
by J & J Designs, and offers typical mid-period Bavaria style * in
a size that is now regarded as a good family cruiser. Modern Bavarias offer yachts with an attractive 'woody' interior at very reasonable cost thanks
to a very highly developed mass production 'assembly line'
facility, currently turning out nearly 3,000 boats a year.
* There are at least three entirely different models called the Bavaria 37: this yacht being the first of the same named versions. Designed by J&J Designs in a similar style to other contemporary Bavarias, she has a fairly classic modern hull form with a sugarscoop stern and distinctive blue contrast strips along the lines of the saloon ports, helping to disguise the high topsides and coachroof that give excellent space and headroom below. She has a single wheel in the cockpit, and the interior is finished in lacquered sapele mahogany veneers and solid wood trim. There was a choice of keel draughts, two or three stern cabins, and battened or in-mast mainsails. This yacht has the shallow keel and two aft cabins, with a conventional battened mainsail.
In about 2007 another J&J designed Bavaria 37 was introduced. Externally this model looks very similar, the major difference in the saloon where being the galley was aft rather than midships. These 37s were labelled "Cruiser" series, and started to use lighter joinery finishes in the interior.
From about 2013 onwards a further series of Bavaria 37 Cruisers were produced, with design by Farr. These were beamier aft, with twin wheels, large rectangular hull and coachroof windows, and a drop-down transom instead of the sugarscoop sterns of the earlier J&J designs. Most of these had light interior joinery, as well as much squarer edged joinery detailing - this being significantly cheaper to build. |
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