BAVARIA C46

Summary

Best Suited For

• Liveaboard

  From the published figures: LOA 14.5 m · 5 cabins · fresh water 490 L

Tags are derived from certified class, length, sail area, accommodation and tankage using the criteria described on the Sources page; an editor may add or remove one.

Sailing Ratios

Classic yacht-design ratios worked out from the builder's published figures, each shown against the bands designers read it by.

Most builders publish a light displacement. The ratios were defined on a loaded boat, so every boat here reads a little lighter than a surveyor's figure would — all alike, which keeps them comparable.

Tanks

What the builder publishes about how fast, how strong and how much the boat carries.

Dimensions

LOA

47.6 ft (14.5 m)

Hull length

45.8 ft (13.95 m)

LWL

43.7 ft (13.32 m)

Beam

15.4 ft (4.7 m)

Draft (min)

5.7 ft (1.75 m)

Draft (max)

7.5 ft (2.3 m)

Air draft

72.3 ft (22.05 m)

Displacement

28,065 lb (12,730 kg)

Ballast

—

Cabins

3–5

Heads

—

Berths

—

Sail Plan

Main sail

710 ft² (66 m²)

Jib

—

Genoa

—

Sail area

1,227 ft² (114 m²)

Downwind sail area

—

Rig type

—

Engine and Tanks

Engine

57–80 hp (Volvo Penta)

Engine count

1

Engine manufacturer

Volvo Penta

Propulsion type

saildrive

Fuel capacity

58 gal (220 L)

Fresh water capacity

129 gal (490 L)

Black water capacity

—

Construction

Mast material

—

Hull material

GRP

Deck material

—

Keel type

—

Rudder type

—

Steering wheels

—

Films of this model from the builder's official YouTube channel (BAVARIA YACHTS). They are the builder's own; the figures above are the reference.

Videos whose title names the BAVARIA C46, from the channel the builder's site links; last checked 9/30/2026. Playing one loads YouTube's player, which may set cookies.

About Bavaria Yachts

Volume production

German builder of sailing yachts and motorboats, founded 1978 and based at its shipyard in Giebelstadt near Würzburg.

Until 1978 the site at Giebelstadt near Würzburg held a factory making PVC windows. Winfried Hermann, a sailor himself, saw in that factory and its workforce the makings of a yard, and founded it on a simple idea: build yachts industrially so they could be offered at prices that put a new boat within many more people's reach. The first motorboats followed in 2001 and succeeded as quickly as the sailing yachts had, on the same combination of quality and price. By 2010 the yard judged that buyers wanted more again -- not only speed and safety under sail but the fittings and finish of a modern holiday home -- and the yacht it builds today is a far more complex thing to make than one of 1978. Giebelstadt still builds every Bavaria from first laminate to final polish: 200,000 square metres holding four production lines of 125 metres each, two halls for hulls and decks, and a joinery where the whole interior is made, with about 700 people producing more than 600 sailing yachts and motorboats a year.

The Bavaria Yachts Range

Every model Bavaria Yachts publishes, by length — where this one sits in the range.

1. BAVARIA C5754.7 ft
2. BAVARIA C5050.6 ft
3. BAVARIA C46· this model47.6 ft
4. BAVARIA Cruiser 4645.6 ft
5. BAVARIA C4240.7 ft
6. BAVARIA C3837.1 ft
7. BAVARIA Cruiser 3737.1 ft
8. BAVARIA Cruiser 3432.8 ft

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