Fractional Sloop · Fin w/bulb & Spade Rudder · First built 1994
A 12-meter fractional sloop with a 2.0-meter draft and a 37.8% ballast ratio, built for stability and cruising speed
Designed by J&J Yacht Design.
See her sail
The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.
Footage from Chez Team
Is it for you?
Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.
Her light displacement on a moderate beam gives 25 — a moderate, middle-of-the-road motion.
1.94 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.
178 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.
20.1 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.
38% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.
Light and lively — happiest day-sailing and coastal-hopping in settled weather.
What the fleet has seen
Derived from the videos the fleet has analysed of this model. ▶ marks open the moment aboard.
The Bavaria Yachts 39 is a fractional sloop designed by J&J Yacht Design and built by Bavaria Yachts from 1994 to the present. It has a fin with bulb and spade rudder hull, measures 12.2 meters LOA with a 3.8-meter beam, and displaces 7399 kg. The standard draft is 2.0 meters, but a shallow draft option of 1.6 meters is available.
The living fleet
Where the fleet has filmed this boat.
Seen once across one channel of the fleet.
On the water
Who's been looking
Crews the fleet has filmed weighing this model up — no sale seen, and no asking price.
From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.
The record
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Boats like this, on the water
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The family
The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.
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