BIMBA — ESP 8320_C
Model: Bavaria 46
With the same sail number: SWEET SALT · Bavaria 46 · 2025
Updated
BIMBA (ESP 8320_C) is a Bavaria 46 designed by J&J Design and built by Bavaria. She has been racing since 2025 and has won 1 race. She sails with a smaller sail plan and a shallower keel than most Bavaria 46s. Against a typical Bavaria 46 she is slower upwind in light air.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats31
Race starts
1
Win
10%
Podiums
47
Race Edge
Bavaria 46: 44
534.7s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
13.98 m
45′ 10″
Beam
4.42 m
Draft
1.97 m
Displacement
11.8 t
Sail area
112 m²
On the podium
Where BIMBA finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
10%
of 31 starts · Bavaria 46 fleet: 9%
Wins
3%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with BIMBA on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Lliga Creuers2026856779197774- XXX Lliga Social CMPO2026334544
- Lliga Creuers2025989811101067645
- Regata ADos202512
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Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat.
Round the buoys
4%
of these races end on the podium
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 4 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
2 more races without a published distance count in the podium figures, not in this split.
Who she races against
The boats BIMBA meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Show more rivals (9)
Other competitors (12)
Met too few times for a figure.
ENIGMA (Farr 52, 7 meetings), STAM DOS (Centurion 40, 7 meetings), CHRONOS (Bavaria 44, 6 meetings), PEGASO III (Dufour 45, 6 meetings), COKETO 2 (First 31.7, 1 meeting), EMBOLIC - U (Dufour 34, 1 meeting), SAXO (X-302, 1 meeting), TAPON (Platu 25, 1 meeting), TOSTAKI (First Class 8, 1 meeting), BO (Sun Rise 35, 1 meeting), PECAS-X (JOD 35, 1 meeting), ZÉPHYROS (Alpa 42, 1 meeting)
How BIMBA compares with a typical Bavaria 46
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Bavaria 46s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Bavaria 46; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.4 kn either way.
At 10 knots she gives away time to a typical Bavaria 46 on the upwind.
Speed at every angle
BIMBA in blue, a typical Bavaria 46 dashed.
BIMBA in blue, a typical Bavaria 46 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Bavaria 46s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Bavaria 46
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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