Bavaria Holiday 36
Bavaria · J&J Design · 1998
Updated
The Bavaria Holiday 36 is a 11.18 m displacement racing yacht designed by J&J Design and built by Bavaria, first launched in 1998. It races in Class C.
Length
11.18 m
36′ 8″
Beam
3.70 m
Draft
1.78 m
Displacement
5.4 t
Sail area
62 m²
On the podium
Where a Bavaria Holiday 36 finishes when she goes racing.
0
Wins
0
Seconds
1
Thirds
7
Starts
Not enough races yet for a percentage — these are the counts so far. We keep collecting results, so this will fill in.
Read from 7 starts by 2 boats between 2022 and 2026, counting races with six boats or more.
Recent regattas
The latest events where a Bavaria Holiday 36 was on the start line, named as the organisers publish them.
AHEPA Cup Perama2026- Νικος Γκρανιας 20262025
- Memorial Koumiotis2024
- :Nikolaos Koumiotis 2022"2022
Raced one we are missing?
Report a regattaRound the buoys, or offshore
A short windward-leeward and a night at sea ask different things of a boat. Here is how this one does in each.
Round the buoys
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Not enough data yet: no races of 10 NM or less carry a published distance.
Offshore & coastal
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Not enough data yet: 5 races over 10 NM carry a published distance.
Who she races against
The designs a Bavaria Holiday 36 actually lines up with, most often first. The bar shows how those meetings ended.
Also met, too few times for a figure:
Discovery 300 (6 meetings), Hanse 315 (5 meetings), Feeling 109 (5 meetings), Sun Odyssey 40 (4 meetings), Melody (4 meetings), Gin Fizz (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 39 (Jézéquel) (3 meetings), Oceanis 38.1 (3 meetings), Sun Odyssey 33 (Andrieu) (3 meetings), Bavaria 40 (3 meetings), Grand Soleil 34 (Finot) (3 meetings), First 35 (Berret) (3 meetings), Dufour 390 (2 meetings), Nek 26 (2 meetings), Canados 37 (2 meetings), X-332 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 45 (2 meetings), First 44.7 (2 meetings), Nereis 30 (2 meetings), Dehler 30 OD (2 meetings), Dehler 38 (Stadt) (2 meetings), Gib Sea 402 (2 meetings), Maxi 95 (2 meetings), Elan 410 (2 meetings), Ecume De Mer (2 meetings), First 32 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 34.2 (2 meetings), North Wind 435 (2 meetings), First 45 (Farr) (2 meetings), Sun Fast 40 (2 meetings), Elan 40 (2 meetings), Triton 48 (2 meetings), Sigma 33 (2 meetings), Elan 45 (2 meetings), First 38 (2 meetings), Sun Odyssey 469 (2 meetings), Atlantic 31 (6 meetings), Bavaria 31 (2 meetings)
Some of the boats it races against
How the Bavaria Holiday 36 has fared against each of them, boat against boat on corrected time. Ordered by how often the two meet, not by who wins.
Speed at every angle
The shape of this design's speed, drawn from the measured fleet. Pick a wind and watch it stretch.
Upwind VMG
4.60
42°
Beam reach
8.02
90°
Broad reach
8.68
135°
Downwind VMG
7.37
170°
Speed in knots at 20 knots of true wind. Green marks the angles that pay: the closest useful beat and the deepest run worth sailing.
Where it wins and where it pays
Every boat is judged against its own measurements — length, weight, sail area. The quicker those say it should be, the more it has to deliver just to break even. Going fast is not enough: it has to go faster than its own numbers promised.
The stronger it blows, the better this design looks. Give it a fresh day and long legs and it delivers more than it promised; in a drifter it is working uphill.
Where it gains
Its best ground is across the wind in a working breeze, where it outruns what it looks like on paper, and by a margin worth having.
Where it pays
It falls short to windward in the light stuff, giving away time it never gets back.
Above the line it delivers more than promised and gains on the fleet. Below, it falls short. Move the wind: plenty of boats sit on one side in the light and the other when it blows.
Full width is 0.6 kn either way.
At 10 knots this design makes back more than its rating asks on the beam reach.
How fast is a Bavaria Holiday 36
Boat speed in knots, by true wind angle and wind strength.
| Angle | 6 kn | 10 kn | 14 kn | 20 kn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beat VMG | 3.01 | 4.23 | 4.65 | 4.60 |
| 52° | 4.65 | 6.28 | 6.84 | 6.88 |
| 60° | 4.95 | 6.55 | 7.10 | 7.20 |
| 75° | 5.17 | 6.76 | 7.37 | 7.63 |
| 90° | 5.07 | 6.82 | 7.45 | 8.02 |
| 110° | 5.05 | 6.94 | 7.75 | 8.60 |
| 120° | 4.84 | 6.82 | 7.71 | 8.79 |
| 135° | 4.28 | 6.36 | 7.46 | 8.68 |
| 150° | 3.65 | 5.70 | 7.08 | 8.20 |
| Run VMG | 3.16 | 4.96 | 6.21 | 7.37 |
How they are set up
The range each sail spans across the fleet.
Most run a fixed propeller. A bowsprit is standard across the fleet. Crew weight is declared around 350 kg.
Rigging
Bavaria Holiday 36 rig and sail dimensions
A Bavaria Holiday 36 carries 13.27 m of mainsail hoist on a 4.10 m boom, a forestay 12.72 m above the deck and a 4.27 m bowsprit. Typical figures across the 3 boats measured under the current VPP, with the range each one spans.
Rig
Sails
The spinnaker spreads widest of all — 58 to 77 m² depending on bowsprit and set-up. Before ordering a sail, read the figure on your own measurement record rather than the typical one for the design.