Boat models · Bayfield
Bayfield 32 Bayfield 30/32
Sailboat, coastal cruiser · built 1973- · designed by Ted Gozzard
Key figures
Comfort24.8moderate
Capsize screen1.98passes for offshore
SA/D15.3undercanvassed
D/L341heavy
Ballast ratio0.42stiff
Hull speed6.5kt
- Built
- 1973-
- Designer
- Ted Gozzard
- Builder
- Bayfield Boat Yard Ltd. (CAN)
- Rig
- Cutter
- Keel
- Long keel
- Length
- 32.0 ft
- Beam / draft
- 10.5 ft · 3.8 ft
- Displacement
- 9,600 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on sailboatdata.com.
Reputation
Classcoastal cruiseras owners use it
Forumsmixedfans and detractors
Salty clipper-bow looks and cutter rig, but slow, short waterline and mostly lake-sailed
- Coastal cruising
- ordinary · comfortable, easy cutter for Great Lakes cruising
- Offshore passages
- mixed · looks bluewater, but light build and small waterline
- Liveaboard
- ordinary · cozy, but bowsprit and overhangs eat interior
- Loved
- traditional clipper bow and trailboards · easy to handle cutter rig · solid-feeling, simple systems · affordable salty look
- Gripes
- slow and poor pointing · short waterline for LOA · weather helm when pressed · dated, dark interior
- Survey for
- deck core rot at fittings and stanchions · bowsprit and bobstay fitting condition · leaking chainplates and portlights · keel bolt and hull-to-deck joint leaks
- Cross-shopped
- Bayfield 29 · Cape Dory 30 · Alberg 30 · Tanzer 31
Thin discussion; from sailboatdata.com, cruisersforum.com, sailnet.com
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