BAVARIA SPORT 360

t first glance, the Bavaria Sport 360 looked like no more than a ‘stripes and A cushions’ tart-up of the outgoing Bavaria Sport 35 when it launched in 2014. However, closer inspection revealed that the revamp was far more detailed than a few cosmetic changes, and one of them was almost invisible right up until the moment you spotted it, at which point it became glaringly obvious – all of the internal woodwork had been rotated 90 degrees. The grain, which had been vertical, was now horizontal. The reasoning was that vertical grain is more associated with cheaper sailing boats – expensive motor boats have a horizontal grain. And that level of attention to detail echoes through the entire boat – it’s as though Bavaria asked its Sport 35 owners for a list of required improvements and then implemented them.

So the general arrangement of