In January 2009, the BAVARIA Yachtbau GmbH announced BMW Group DesignworksUSA as their new blueprint associate and commissioned the global blueprint consultancy and subsidiary of the BMW Group to support the Giebelstadt boat architect in the realignment of its product portfolio. DesignworksUSA operates in a multitude of industries both for the parent company'southward three brands also equally for external customers.

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Together with BAVARIA the consultancy had presented their debut joint project, the Deep Blue 46, at the BOOT Düsseldorf. With this boat the two partners achieved a precision landing. It was recently awarded the bays "Boat of the Yr" at the Republic of croatia Gunkhole Show. The 2nd collaboration of this Bavarian connexion is just virtually to be presented to the public. In April, the Cruiser 55, the biggest BAVARIA yacht to date, will be shown for the very showtime time at the Saló Nàutic Internacional de Palma on Majorca.

For the development of this milestone in the history of BAVARIA, the shipyard pinned its hopes on an extremely electrifying combination of affiliates. While Farr Yacht Pattern managed the boat structure, the Munich studio of BMW Group DesignworksUSA was responsible for the overall outside design and styling concept. With the effect, the experts at the versatile design consultancy are effortlessly demonstrating that they primary the art of sensitive evolution equally well every bit the techniques of creative revolution. The design concept of the Cruiser 55 is a discreet enhancement of the existing Cruiser line, marking the beginning of a new era in BAVARIA design – an era characterised by a conspicuously divers blueprint vocabulary, by innovative impetus and a combination of maximum functionality and premium design.

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Eye-catching simplicity: the exterior pattern of the Cruiser 55.

The silhouette of the Cruiser 55 was created at the Munich studio of DesignworksUSA in close collaboration with the engineering office and the shipyard. The Yacht mag, i of Europe'due south leading merchandise journals, sums upward: "The Cruiser 55 presents itself in a discreet form, totally avoiding superficial effects, just however – or perhaps for this very reason – radiating more form and finesse than whatever design produced during the last ten to fifteen years."

Laurenz Schaffer, head of the Munich studio is pleased with this reasoning: "The design of the Cruiser 55 places the emphasis on the highest level of functionality and performance. Our blueprint was aimed at creating a silhouette that reflects a maximum degree of lucidity and clarity. The deck dispenses with all superfluity, all functions are extremely well-organised and oriented towards a sheer sailing experience that takes on a completely new dimension." Based on the archetype features of the existing cruiser line and through the use of elegant, seamlessly shine surfaces, it was possible to attain a distinctively modern design. The portholes are seamlessly integrated into the flush deck structure; the hull windows boasting an intentionally horizontally accentuated, narrow design are evenly set into a wide ornamental frame. The high caste of visual order achieved by this suggests calmness, directing the crew'due south attention to the cadre aspect of the yacht – its seaworthiness. And in spite of its subtle simplicity, the Cruiser 55 reveals a completely independent character that sparks the emotions of the beholder. The gunkhole features an effectively raised deck line, a modern hull profile at the stern with a wide deck within the aft cockpit area, a broad transom that stands out through a distinctive surface design and a surprisingly generous seating arrangement. Thanks to these attributes the Cruiser 55 presents itself as the BAVARIA line'due south proud flagship that is already filling the order books before serial production has even commenced. The Bavaria Cruiser 55 tin can immediately be ordered in a three, four or v-cabin version.

BMW Group DesignworksUSA – perfection in design beyond the spotlights.
BMW Grouping DesignworksUSA is a global design consultancy and subsidiary of the BMW Group. The company, which was acquired by the BMW Grouping in 1995, now operates globally from its locations in Europe, America and Asia. Clients plough to DesignworksUSA for make communications, strategy, enquiry, design development, technology, modeling, and colour, materials, and finish. Unique to DesignworksUSA, they have both an automotive and industrial design studio, enabling the transfer of collective knowledge and inspiration from automotive design to product design and vice versa. The studio represents a guiding force for the BMW Group brand blueprint studios (BMW, MINI and Rolls Rolls-Royce Motor Cars) and simultaneously operates as an innovation driver for the almost diverse industries from IT to medical, lifestyle or aviation. Since 2004, Verena C. Kloos has overseen the strategy and operations for the Munich, Los Angeles and Singapore pattern studios. The designs consistently limited the individual identity of a brand, then each production devised past BMW Grouping DesignworksUSA gains its specific uniqueness. Thank you to this approach the design studio stands out significantly from its competitors, convincing big make names – from Nokia Microsoft and HP, SaecoStarbucks, Acer Embraer, Advanced Medical Optics and Bavaria Yachts to Boeing Business Jets.

Overview of design features of the BAVARIA Cruiser 55:
• Customer: BAVARIA Yachtbau GmbH, Giebelstadt.
• Project: BAVARIA Cruiser 55.
• Pattern concept: BMW Group DesignworksUSA. Construction: Farr Yacht Blueprint.
• Evolutionary boat development. In the style of classic cruiser blueprint but distinctively modernised, substantially strengthening the boat's character. Symbiosis of cruiser tradition and modern design.
• New level of design quality and a highly functional orientation.
• Modernity and clarity: High caste of visual club for purposeful and modern clarity, lucidity and simplicity on board.
• Strong individual character through wide deck within the aft cockpit surface area (widened past 20 cm to ensure optimum amount of space within), broad transom with feature surface design, flush deck construction and ii parallel hatch lines.
• Plane, elegant, large and seamlessly smooth surfaces for a distinctively modernised expect.
• Flat deck, flushly aligned portholes, narrow hull windows evenly set into an ornamental frame.
• Raised deck line (sheerline) and distinctive modernisation of hull profile at the stern.
• Generous helmstand besides designed for uncompromising performance.
• Concisely organised instrument console in helmstand.
• Enhanced seating arrangement and flexible functional gangway (for extension of the seating organisation and for utilize every bit a gangplank).
• Modernistic twin rudder system.

[Source: BMW AG]