The Bavaria Yachts booth at the Miami International Boat Show was always busy, it seemed, and the star of the show there was the Bavaria Virtess 420 Fly, now in the U.S. after having been named European Boat of the Year a while ago. And, with its combination of German engineering and Italian interior design, it was easy to see why.
Powered by two 435-hp Volvo diesels with Volvo’s IPS fingertip joystick control, the Bavaria 420 tops out at about 33 knots, and its 18-degrees of deadrise at the transom mean she can perform even in heavy seas. Overall, the Bavaria 420 is a well-balanced, well-engineered and well-built cruiser with three staterooms and two heads so you can go cruising with the whole family or two other couples without feeling cramped.
One neat engineering feat: The cockpit furniture slides on rails, so you can rearrange it to put everything on the sides, if you want to enlarge the cockpit for fishing, say, or put it back to a traditional seating for dining and entertaining. And you can use a remote to lower the large teak swim platform hydraulically for water sports. Large glass sliding doors lead from the cockpit to the salon, which has windows all around. The galley is up, to port, opposite the helm. The dinette table raises and lowers at the touch of a button.
The master stateroom forward has an oversized island berth and a full head with separate shower. The two guest staterooms aft, on either side, have twin single berths that convert to doubles with filler cushions. The guest head also has a large shower. Headroom in the cabins is a full 6’5”. The flybridge has a double helm seat, a wetbar, a six-person dinette with a teak table, and a starboard-side seat that converts to a sunpad.
Specs.: LOA: 44’6”; Beam: 13’8”; Draft: 3’8”; Disp.: 25,133 lbs.; Fuel: 317 gals.; Water: 108 gals. Power: 2×435-hp Volvo IPS 600s. Price, fully equipped, delivered in Florida: $672,000.
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