Bavaria
Bavaria 30 Cruiser
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The advert says Bavaria 30. The broker archive Yachtsnet writes that this yard does it that way: the thirty is in fact 31 feet long. Yachting Monthly on 8 August 2024 puts 9.45 m in the box and, right there, 31 feet 0 inches. The designer in the same box is J&J, not the yard's drawing office. Practical Boat Owner names those letters: the brothers Jernej and Japec Jakopin. Farr in that article starts in 2010. That is another chapter, not this hull.
This page is for someone reading a Bavaria 30 Cruiser advert who has not yet decided which of the three keels is on the hull. The years 2005-2007 on the live chips agree with the magazine, the archive, and the card file. The chips hold a length of about 9.5 m, close to 9.45-9.47 m. We do not put the beams 3.04 m and 3.22 m from the live page here: the card file has 3.28 m, the magazine 3.29 m. The band of 1,500-2,000 hulls, a "yard's own design", about 4,000 kg as one number, a Yanmar 3YM30 as standard, and a score of 7.3 out of 10 are the template. The English badge about decks of the 1980s and 1990s does not belong to this series.
At a glance
Quick facts
- Production
- 2005-2007
- LOA
- 9.47 m
- Beam
- 3.28 m
- Model
- Bavaria 30 Cruiser
Key takeaways
- Best for: affordable Scandinavian beginner cruiser with wide production
- Common issue: stanchion base leaks on 1980s - 90s production decks
- Typical price: entry Bavaria band - condition and VAT beat badge
Technical data
- Length overall (LOA)
- 9.47 m
- Beam
- 3.28 m
- L/B
- 2.89
- LWL
- 8.25 m
- Hull
- grp
- Designer
- J&J Design
- Production years
- 2005-2007
Calculations and ratios
Brochure numbers need matching units. Open a FairHelm formula page for the classical form, rule of thumb, and limits before you compare listings.
Design history
There are three keels by name. Practical Boat Owner: a deep fin with a bulb, a shallow fin with a bulb, and a rarer tandem. Tandem here means two short fins one behind the other, not one deep keel. Yachting Monthly, on a 2006 boat named Romah, measures the tandem at 1.40 m and the deep fin at 1.95 m. The rudder, the author writes, is one depth with any keel. Yachtsnet in the header gives other feet: deep 6 feet 1 inch or shallow 4 feet 7 inches, and calls the tandem draught unknown. sailboatdata prints only 1.40 m. We do not pick one draught. This is not the pair of cast-iron keels on the First 31.7.
The length in the card file is 9.47 m, that is 31.08 feet. Weight 4,191 kg against 4,400 kg. Ballast about 1,007 kg in the card file and 1,100 kg in the magazine. Yachtsnet writes 9,240 pounds of displacement, the same 4,191 kg, and ballast of 2,200 pounds. Sail area 48.6 m² in the magazine and 37.16 m² on the card. The second looks like the triangles without the big genoa. We do not take one number.
Typical problems
Around 2007-2008, Yachtsnet writes, the 31 Cruiser replaced the thirty. That is another boat. Earlier still, in 1999, there was a Bavaria 31 by the same J&J, with different overhangs. We do not write its page here. There is no hull count in the open sources. The engine on the Yachtsnet sheet is a Volvo Penta D1-20 of 18 hp, and the sheet may describe one boat, not the whole series. In the rig the archive sees a choice: mainsail furling into the mast, or ordinary reefs. Before a deposit, the same stakes as on the live checklist: moisture at the forestay, saildrive service, keel bolts, without a kronor table that has no source and without a charter Yanmar as a rule of the series.
On the boat Romah a rudder-stock bolt did not hold the blade, and the rudder once went down. That is one hull, not a rule of the series.
Annual ownership costs
The price band of 38,000 to 52,000 pounds sits in the box of August 2024. That is their band, not our price list.
Calculators for this boat
Indicative figure for weekend use. The country supplies berth and winter. The insurance line stays the Swedish planning band - not a Danish, German, or Dutch premium. Maintenance stays Swedish too. Not a marina quote.
- Netherlands (annual contract)€3,700 - €6,312
- Sweden (planning bands)€4,950 - €8,550
- Denmark (two harbours, season)€3,771 - €6,191
Antifouling
Litres need waterline length and draft. This page only has length overall and beam, so litres are not calculated here.
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Pre-purchase survey checklist
Before the advert it is worth asking which of the three keels is on the hull, and not reading "30" as 9.00 m. We do not take the designer from the live page, where he is called the yard's own: in these texts it is J&J. A neighbouring comparison on the site already exists: Hallberg-Rassy HR 38, for the fork of prestige and cockpit, not for pasting Bavaria 30 figures.
Expert verdict
FairHelm rating: 7.3/10: Affordable German entry with wide production; survey stanchion leaks and rigging age on 1980s - 90s decks.
Vadim Nareyko, FairHelm Editorial, Last reviewed: 2026-07-12