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Originally Posted by Ray Jones
I am contemplating buying a new Bavaria. Seen lots of reviews but most are biased as written by a magazine for the manufacturer.
Does anyone know of any cons or indeed pros?
I live in the UK and intend to do only coastal cruising.
Any help greatly appreciated |
I had a Bavaria 33 , 2009 model. Ours was an excellent
boat, very comfortable, sailed fairly well (closest we could get to the
Wind was about 41 degrees).
We sail the
Baltic, so somewhat the same
weather as you get. Only reason we
sold it was to get something bigger to do a
circumnavigation in. If we were only going to sail the
Baltic, we would have kept it. Ours was a 2
cabin version.
We sail in almost all kinds of
weather and never felt nervous in it despite being out in 35/40
Knot Winds.
Only negative I can tell you about was that when we were going hard upwind, she had a tendency to turn up into the
Wind regardless of our
steering. We had a good size genua, so it really just means you need to start thinking about reefing at 18-20 knots.
If you buy one, get the big
engine, the Little
engine is just a bit undersized
good luck - pm me if you want to know more
carsten
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