BACK TO THE WATER
May 01, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS BY SARAH ELL
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO BY
CHRIS CAMERON
The Bavaria was certainly eye-catching in the marina: it was a bit of a surprise to pull up to the finger outside owner Peter Boddie’s apartment at Gulf Harbour and see something which looked like a mini superyacht, with sleek lines, a low-profile cabintop and a strip of through-hull windows. At 13.6m long, there’s plenty packed into her 4.49m beam.
As with many owners who had ordered new boats to arrive in time for summer 2021-22, the boat arrived in the country just as Auckland’s extended lockdown began mid-August, so Boddie had to spend months admiring it from a distance before getting aboard. This new boat is a
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