Making the change
WHEN you are recovering from knee surgery but have to do a boat test, you could not do better than hitch a review ride on the latest Bavaria yacht, the C57.
Under new management the Bavaria range is undertaking a significant change in the market and this yacht is a good indication of not only where they intend to take the marque, but also how well it is going. As the Ensign Yachts Group management team related it to me as I stepped aboard: “forget everything you thought you knew about Bavaria and look at it with fresh eyes.”
Well, that had me engaged straight away.
On paper it is easy to see which way the Bavaria design team wish to go. They have closed the long-standing partnership with Farr yacht design and now work with Maurizio Cossutti and Alessandro Ganz on the hull shape and sail plan, with Leo Curin of Croatia’s Pulse Yachts for the interior design. These may not be names familiar here in Australia, but Cossutti has been successful and popular in the European circuit of Ocean Racing Circuit yacht design.
So is a move to more performance craft the shift Bavaria are taking?
The Bavaria C57 is
