Bavaria has become famous over the years for user-friendly mid-sized sportscruisers with inboard engines and affordable pricing.
From time to time, it has also been known for allowing internal practicality to dominate external form, resulting in conspicuously elevated rooflines and high-sided aesthetics. But when the SR41 arrived on the scene, it did a lot to shift that focus.
With big boat volume, small boat sportiness and luxury boat styling, it occupied the ideal middle ground between Bavaria’s S Class and R Class cruisers. In fact, it did that job so well, it earned itself the prize for ‘Best Sportscruiser Under 50ft’ at our annual Motor Boat of the Year Awards. And even before you step on board, the new SR36 appears to exhibit plenty of that same keenly resolved, cruise-friendly design intelligence.
In addition to a wider beam than the existing S36, the hull sides come up much higher. That creates extra internal volume, while minimising the relative height of the superstructure. And to augment that sleeker appearance, the structure itself uses a hardtop that appears to float on glass, without the clunky intervention of big fibreglass supports. Instead, the
