39 Cruiser Keel Depth

[jdy66]

I am looking at a Bav 39 cruiser which has a builder's certificate stating the keel depth to be 2.25m, but then all of the rest of the documents refer to 1.85m... including a tonnage survey.

I am wondering why the discrepancy... Did the builders cert just state the max draft possible?? I would have thought these figures wereexact for the specific boat.

I can see I might have to get under the boat to measure this using the method yngmar suggested in another post.

Any observations/thoughts most welcome.

Cheers

Jon

[sy_Anniina]

I find it hard to believe that a Bavaria 39 would have 2.25m draft. Our B40 2001 vintage has the deep lead keel option 2.1m and I believe the standard cast iron keel was around 1.9m

2.25 starts to sound like Match series draft

BR

Tommi
s/y Anniina

[jdy66]

I find it hard to believe that a Bavaria 39 would have 2.25m draft. Our B40 2001 vintage has the deep lead keel option 2.1m and I believe the standard cast iron keel was around 1.9m

2.25 starts to sound like Match series draft

BR

Tommi
s/y Anniina

Yeah I thought that was odd... Then I found this (different boat) https://www.boat24.com/en/sailingboats/bavaria/bavaria-39-cruiser/detail/662090/ and in the advert in several places it goes on about the 2.25 keel so it doesn't seem like an auto fill typo etc... deep keel for the size. I previously thought the 39 cruisers only came with 1.85 or 2.05 options...

[jdy66]

Just to close the loop on this in case it is useful to others...

Bavaria was contacted and replied within 24h to say that the measurements on the builder certificate don't necessarily relate to the actual draft of the vessel.

They confirmed that although the builders certificate said 2.25 the actual keel depth was 1.85 as per other documents.

[sunshine]

The tonnage on my builders cert for a Bav30 is also a fantasy figure.