Sailing Around the World on My PRODUCTION YACHT - My honest review of my BAVARIA 55 Cruiser
December 26, 2024 by Sailing with Thomas | Language: EN Play Time: 00:33:50 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Sailing around the world on a mass-production yacht Bavaria 55 Cruiser in my seventh season. This is my honest review and experience with all the challenges regarding failing products and building quality. How is my real-life experience versus repeated misinformation, rumors, and parrots repeating BS from small sailors? Why do I love wide cockpits and will this destroy the secondhand market for old-school-designed yachts? Catamarans can be expensive but a modern production yacht with a wide body and huge cockpit can be a good compromise. I am busting some myths and even explaining how it’s possible to build a Bavaria 55 Cruiser for a third of what high-end competitors are selling for. Is it still worth it and is it value for money? Or is this not a safe yacht on which to circumnavigate the world? I believe this video will surprise many as based on my experience things are not always what people like to believe. Sailors with old yachts are spreading misinformation not only about brands but even design qualities. In this video, I hope to broaden your perspective on what to look for and how to understand not only Bavaria but mass production yachts in general.
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I’m a sailor with a YouTube channel and not a YouTuber. Sailing around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser mostly solo, making videos whenever we have time for it.
Comfortable at sea with 4 decades of sailing experience and hundreds of thousands of miles behind me.
Even though this is season 7 on YouTube I did not make that many videos in the beginning, and obviously not from my entire sailing life. Before full-time sailing 6 years ago, I sailed several seasons in the Mediterranean, and obviously also in Scandinavia. I had my first sailboat at age 7 and have been sailing and racing ever since. I also have more than 10 years of experience as a captain in search and rescue at sea in Norway.
Sailing around the world on a mass-production yacht Bavaria 55 Cruiser in my seventh season. This is my honest review and experience with all the challenges regarding failing products and building quality. How is my real-life experience versus repeated misinformation, rumors, and parrots repeating BS from small sailors? Why do I love wide cockpits and will this destroy the secondhand market for old-school-designed yachts? Catamarans can be expensive but a modern production yacht with a wide body and huge cockpit can be a good compromise. I am busting some myths and even explaining how it's possible to build a Bavaria 55 Cruiser for a third of what high-end competitors are selling for. Is it still worth it and is it value for money? Or is this not a safe yacht on which to circumnavigate the world? I believe this video will surprise many as based on my experience things are not always what people like to believe. Sailors with old yachts are spreading misinformation not only about brands but even design qualities. In this video, I hope to broaden your perspective on what to look for and how to understand not only Bavaria but mass production yachts in general.
Thank you so much for tagging along, and for the patron's support in making this video possible.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sailingwiththomas
You can even tip me https://sailingwiththomascom.wpcomstaging.com/how-to-support-and-share-your-love/
Please also check out my brand new channel @PracticalThomas where the full version with more details is shared every time I have some practical topics in my videos https://youtu.be/DoamO6EUeAI
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING AND SUBSCRIBING!
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ABOUT THIS CHANNEL:
I'm a sailor with a YouTube channel and not a YouTuber. Sailing around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser mostly solo, making videos whenever we have time for it.
Comfortable at sea with 4 decades of sailing experience and hundreds of thousands of miles behind me.
Even though this is season 7 on YouTube I did not make that many videos in the beginning, and obviously not from my entire sailing life. Before full-time sailing 6 years ago, I sailed several seasons in the Mediterranean, and obviously also in Scandinavia. I had my first sailboat at age 7 and have been sailing and racing ever since. I also have more than 10 years of experience as a captain in search and rescue at sea in Norway.
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Sailing solo around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser - S/Y Be Free. Most of the time sailing single handed and occasionally with friends and other guests. Dreaming of crossing the Pacific singlehanded. Most of my life has been in the small coastal town Tønsberg, 95 km south of Oslo. With the national park at our doorsteps, and the Oslo fjord and Skagerak sea outside the windows, it was almost mandatory to own a boat. I´m almost raised in a sailboat and had my first by the age of 7. Not only did we spend 3 weeks every summer, and every weekend of my childhood, on the lean (Sailing) But my parents owned a boat factory, where they manufactured sailboats and smaller motorboats. So I think its fair to say I've been into sailing my whole life. MY LAST JOB Full time working for the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue, and almost 10 years as voluntary and skipper for the Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue. ONE LIFE SAIL IT WISELY www.sailingwiththomas.com
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