LOCATED IN BEAUTIFUL SAINT MARTIN/SINT MAARTEN, WAITING TO MAKE SOME MORE SAILING DREAMS COME TRUE

The Bavaria 44 is a no-nonsense sailing vessel known for its reliability and seaworthiness. This yacht strikes a nice balance between performance and comfort, making it an ideal choice for weekending or longer journeys.

Key Features:

• Year: 2003
• Model: Bavaria 44
• Length: 44 feet
• Spacious and well-designed interior layout
• Comfortable accommodations for extended stays
• Equipped with essential navigation and safety equipment
• Ample storage space for provisions and gear
• Slab Reefing main (on a Selden track system) and roller furling genoa for reliability at sea.  

The nicely-appointed interior offers generous headroom and ample natural light. There's a real sense of space to this vessel.  This 3-cabin layout features a well-appointed salon with comfortable furnishings, a fully equipped galley, and comfortable sleeping cabins.  The owners cabin forward has a large semi-walkaround berth, plenty of storage, and a large ensuite head.  Two guest cabins aft offer additional large berths and share the main cabin/day head.

This Bavaria 44 has been well maintained, by long-term owners. Whether you're seeking a boat to visit the islands of the Eastern Caribbean or dreaming of even further adventures, this yacht will make a great platform to pursue your dreams.

MAIN SALON AND GALLEY:

This Bavaria has a very clean interior and layout, giving a warm and homely feel.

• Saloon with open galley on port
• Varnished table and comfortable seating with soft microfiber cushion covers (+spare fabric) with storage underneath
• 2 fans in saloon
• Navigation station on starboard aft
• Stainless double sink in galley
• “Eno” 3-burner stainless steel stove with oven
• 2 x propane aluminum US style tanks in 2 dedicated lockers, under aft cockpit seating
• Full set of pots, pans, crockery, cutlery, knives, glasses and many extras
• 1 FM/AM radio & CD player. Interior & cockpit speakers

MASTER/FORWARD STATEROOM:

• Forward double cabin
• With head on starboard
• Hanging closet on port

GUEST CABIN:

• 2 aft double cabins
• One shared head on port
• Towels and linens for all cabins

COCKPIT:

• Roomy cockpit with foldable central table
• Synthetic Teak seat finish
• (2018) Sunbrella dodger and bimini
• (2018) Sunbrella cushions
• Shower
• BBQ on aft port rail
• O/B Forespar Nova Lift

Slab-reefing fully-battened Mainsail on a Selden track system for bulletproof mainsail handling.  Large Genoa is handled with a beefy Furlex furler that makes reefing for furling the genoa a breeze.

Conventional rig, easily trimmable backstay with Furlex furler on the forestay.

• Selden anodized aluminum mast
• 1 spinnaker pole
• 1 x 19 8mm stainless steel wire to swaged studs, to open bronze bodied turnbuckles---RENEWED IN NOVEMBER 2020
• Primaries – 2 x Harken ST48 two speed manual self-tailing winches
• Roof – 2 x Harken ST40 2 speed manual self-tailing winches
• Extra – 2 x Harken ST40 2 speed manual self-tailing winches
• “Furlex 300S” furler for genoa
• 4 strand braided line on pulley to boom vang
• (2009) Quantum Fully battened Mainsail and furling genoa
• (2018) Sunbrella bimini, dodger and cockpit cushions
• 7 Lewmar aluminum framed deck hatches
• 12 Lewmar aluminum framed portlights

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS:

• House Batteries: 4 x ACDelco 12 volts AGM batteries @ 90 Ah each
• Engine Battery: 1 x Exide maintenance free 12V battery, size 24, 90 Ah
• Stowage & Ventilation: under saloon seating.
• Circuit protection: Isolation switches
• Power distribution: 12V labeled circuit breaker panels
• Volt & Ammeters: Bavaria OEM
• Charging systems: 
  • Single alternator 40A
  • Solar panel 50 watts --not attached
  • Solar controller SSO 25 Sunsaver duo
• Inverter: 12V/110V “X power Xantrex”
• Morning Star Remote Battery meter
• Link battery monitor / Heart interface
• Refrigeration: 1 “Danfoss” air cooled compressor model BD35F to an evaporator plate in one ice box in galley

A/C SYSTEM: 

• 220-volt Shore power: Yes
• A/C sockets Yes, 110 outlets
• Battery charger:          Yes

NAVIGATION AND ELECTRONICS:

• “Raymarine i70” Autopilot display at wheel station with rotary drive on rudder quadrant
• RayMarine Smart Pilot X30
• “ST60+ Raymarine Depth+Speed” at wheel station
• “Raymarine ST60” Wind
• Raytheon RAY 45 VHF
• 2 x “Plastimo Olympic 135”
• Nav ligths: Anchor light, steaming light, and side lights
• 1 Sony 426 FM/AM radio & CD player. Interior & cockpit speakers

STEERING SYSTEM:

• Streamlined semi-balanced rudder with self-adjusting pendulum bearings
• Dual wheel steering with 7 x 19 wire on quadrant
• Galvanized steel emergency tiller
• Rudder post seals are O-ring
• Single lever engine control to starboard

ENGINE and GEARBOX:                                   

• Volvo Penta D2-55 (59hp)
• Hours: Estimated at 3,500 hours
• Fresh water cooled, through a heat exchanger
• Wet exhaust – mixing elbow to SS waterlock, through looped reinforced exhaust hosing to a stainless-steel skin fitting.
• Naturally ventilated
• Gearbox: Volvo sail drive 120SD
• Single alternator 12V
• Volvo primary filter
• “Flexifold” three bladed folding bronze propeller
• Manual fuel shut-off
• Volvo engine panel
• Engine controls thru Morse cables

TANKS (ALL):

• 2 polyethylene water tanks: under aft port bunk (210 liters) and under forward master cabin bunk (250 liters)
• Diesel polyethylene tank under aft starboard bunk (210 liters)
• 2 holding tanks (one per toilet) aft estimated 80 liters
• Forward holding tank 40 liters (forward tank disconnected)
• 2 Jabsco piston type manual marine head pumps
• Seacocks are bronze valves
• Hot water: Bavaria OEM 220V heater under port aft bunk –water heated via engines’ heat exchanger & A/C 220V

PRESSURIZED WATER SYSTEM:

• Dual “Shurflo” 12V diaphragm type pressure pump with accumulator tank “Shurflo”

BILGE PUMPS:

• Electric: Submersible 12V “Rule” 2000 GPH bilge pump
• Manual: ‘Henderson MKV’ pump in the cockpit

PIPING & HOSE CLAMPS:

• Diesel: Approved fuel hose
• Propane:  Copper hose and flexible propane linked together
• Fresh water:  flexible piping, single clamped

SHOWERS & BATH:

• 3 showers: 1 in each head, 1 in the cockpit
• Drainage via 2 x “Jabsco” 12V diaphragm pump

EQUIPMENT:   

• 8 Type 2 PFD
• 1 throwable life buoys
• Double stainless steel wire lifelines through stainless steel stanchions
• Rigid stainless-steel tubing on the aft side of hull
• 2 X 2KG ABC fire extinguisher

CATHODIC PROTECTION:

• Zinc anode on the SD leg and keel

LIGHTENING PROTECTION SYSTEMS:

• A grounding wire is connected to a keel bolt in front bilge

GROUND TACKLE:

• “Delta” type primary anchor, estimated at 20kg
• Chain/rode:  Approximately 200 ft x 10 mm chain
• “Danforth” aluminum secondary anchor 8 kg with approx. 20 meters of chain and nylon rode
• “LOFRANS Tigres” 1200W electrical horizontal windlass 12V

TENDER:

• (2020) “Carib MVPL10” semi rigid inflatable dinghy, 10ft.
• FRP hull, Hypalon tubes, HIN CND-L0012J819 
• (2014) “Tohatsu” 9.8HP Outboard engine, 2 stroke, s/n 008747AE

Forespar Nova Lift installed on starboard stern balcon

• Fibrous Reinforced plastic - solid laminate hull built
• White gelcoat
• Transverse stringer gives rigidity strength to the hull, Plywood bulkheads are bonded into recesses to the hull with fiberglass tabbing
• Decking: Molded Fibrous Reinforced Plastic
• Molded FRP with inner core superstructure
• The deck is chemically bonded and fastened, with stainless self-tapping screws, between an internally flanged hull and aluminum toe rail
• Rub rail: SS insert facing outboard on teak toe rail
• Bulkheads: Cherry faced marine plywood
• Ceilings: PVC covered panels and FRP
• Cast iron keel
• Hardened steel keel bolts
• Reinforced fiberglass spade rudder with foam core and a fiberglass stock
• Stainless steel stem fitting with dual bow rollers
• Reverse transom with a step through access, and a hinged stainless-steel swim ladder.
• 2 stainless steel poles available for 1 solar panel
• Bronze type seacocks thru-hulls and valves               

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.