The boat

Our sailboat is a Bavaria38Ocean. She is 11.50m long, 4 meters wide. Draft is 2m.She was built by Bavaria Yachts in Germany in 1998. We are the 2nd owner and bought her in april 2011.

She has a good layout below and a good center cockpit.

She is a purpose built "bluewater" sail yacht suitable for a couple like us. She has a large aft cabin with entrace to toilet/shower rooms. A good size galley, navtable and a saloon with an L sofa on port side - and a straight sofa on starboard. A large table easy seats 6-8 persons.

She is a slooped/fraction rigged boat. Furled main and genoa sails - and an azymetric spinnaker. When wind fails the is propelled by a Volvo Penta MD22L (55HP) and a saildrive propeller.

The boat has diesel tank for 225L (+80L extra diesel on deck jerry cans.)

Water tanks for 400L freshwater and a sewage tank of 100L.

House batteries 280 Amp/hrs. A radio battery of 100Amp./hrs and a start battery of 110 Amp/hrs.

We have installed a 520W solar panels and a 350W wind generator. In addition we can rig an extra 100W solar panel on the bimini - on long calm days.

Navigation is done using OpenCPN and a B&G chartplotter with Navionics charts.

Both are interfaced with a Navico 3G radar mounted on the starbord aft end.

We also have a Class A AIS transponder to be able to see and bee seen by other vessels.

Our comms system is VHF. In adition we have MF/HF/DSC radio with E-mail capability. HF antenna is an 8m long fibreglass whip on the aft port side. We have a InReach satellite tracker, a GPS EPIRB and an Iridium SatPhone.

A new 4 person liferaft and a 3m RIB will help us float if Ocean Viking desides to become a submarine ;)

We have replaced all running rig and a new standing rig. We have also bought a new main sail.
We have also fitted a Hydrovane Wind vane selfsteering rudder. An expensive - but neccessary investment.