I've not seen them, but had a look
at the website just now. As with most current generation boats, I really bounced right off the design. The exterior as well as the interior, even if the dark mahogany look is available again (good), it just looks like the cheap plastic veneered MDF furniture I had in my bedroom when I was a kid
They're probably well built, and there are some good features (surprisingly few new ones in the last 17 years though!), but they're clearly aimed at a market that doesn't include me. I hate just about everything there, the twin wheels, the flop-down transom, the vertical bow with far protruding anchor roller, the galley with nowhere to brace, the lack of a navigation table (and the crippled version is facing the wrong way), and the forward owner's cabin with separate loo (if you ever spent some "quality" time fixing a marine toilet, you certainly wouldn't want to maintain two of them).
Speaking of well built, the website tries to talk up the new vacuum infusion process. The reason boat builders are having to switch to this is new regulation that's making hand-laminated polyester increasingly illegal due to potential health hazards for the workers. Last I checked, the vacuum infusion process was tricky and failure prone, although hopefully it has matured somewhat since.
Luckily around 2000 Bavaria designed and built a boat that appealed to me, but none of the current line-up even remotely do.
Amongst fibreglass boats I know about, the German Sirius 35/40DS is probably my favorite at the moment, although easily twice the price of a new C45, so not a fair comparison. But just
have a look at the details there
