BO BRAYA — BUL 51
Model: Bavaria Cruiser 51
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BO BRAYA (BUL 51) is a Bavaria Cruiser 51 designed by Bruce Farr and built by Bavaria. She has been racing since 2024 and has won four races, three of them in a row in 2026. She sails with a smaller sail plan than most Bavaria Cruiser 51s. Against a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51 she is slower upwind in light air, on a beam reach and downwind.
Racing record
Races with at least six boats11
Race starts
4
Wins
73%
Podiums
1
Race Edge
582.3s/mile
Rating 2026
Race Edge by wind strength: how much she delivers beyond her rating, compared with the other boats in her class.
Length
14.96 m
49′ 1″
Beam
4.61 m
Draft
2.19 m
Displacement
14.1 t
Sail area
115 m²
On the podium
Where BO BRAYA finishes when she goes racing.
On the podium
73%
of 11 starts · Bavaria Cruiser 51 fleet: 67%
Wins
36%
Regattas
Every regatta we found with BO BRAYA on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
Aegean Regatta20263111- Aegean Regatta202532351
Shorthanded Regatta2024612
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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
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Not enough data yet: 3 races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 8 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The boats BO BRAYA meets most often on the start line. The bar shows how those meetings ended, on corrected time.
Other competitors (19)
Met too few times for a figure.
EUPLOIA (Contest 33, 5 meetings), VICTORIA II (Sun Odyssey 37.1, 5 meetings), CORRENTE (Sun Odyssey 33.1, 5 meetings), SUTTON BONINGTON (Dufour 3800, 5 meetings), CAPE HORN (Bavaria Match 42, 4 meetings), CALLIANA (Sun Odyssey 34.2, 4 meetings), LZ YACHTING 1991 (Grand Soleil 42 (Carkeek), 2 meetings), PAREA (Salona 40, 2 meetings), KALINA (First 29, 2 meetings), KIARA X (X-41, 2 meetings), HYGEIA (Bavaria 46 (Farr), 2 meetings), DARINA (Apollo 12, 2 meetings), PROXIMA (Conrad 24, 2 meetings), MOWGLI (Sun Fast 32, 2 meetings), ANA BELLA (Cyclades 50.5, 2 meetings), VLADA (Peterson 34, 2 meetings), GIO (Sun Odyssey 40, 2 meetings), LILIA (Hanse 348, 2 meetings), GRAY GALE (Oceanis 45 (Finot-Conq), 2 meetings)
How BO BRAYA compares with a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51
Her main 2026 measurements against the middle of the fleet: one boat per sail number, the latest full-crew configuration with spinnaker, Bavaria Cruiser 51s measured since 2025.
Above the line she is quicker than a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51; below, slower. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 1.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots she gives away time to a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51 on the broad reach.
Speed at every angle
BO BRAYA in blue, a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51 dashed.
BO BRAYA in blue, a typical Bavaria Cruiser 51 dashed; green marks the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Other Bavaria Cruiser 51s racing
Every sister ship with results on TackRegatta, the most recently raced first.
More about the Bavaria Cruiser 51
Speed at every angle, Race Edge, the race record of the whole fleet and how the boats are set up.
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