Baba 30

Hull and Deck

• Hand laminated FRP hull designed to meet or exceed Lloyds specifications. Lloyd certificate available at additional cost.
• Hand laminated FRP and end-grain wood sandwich construction deck and cabin.
• Textured non-skid surfaces on deck flats and cabin top. Teak overlay on cockpit seating area.
• Hull-to-deck joint chemically bonded, fastened with stainless steel bolts, cosmetically finished with teak caprail fastened with stainless steel bolts.
• Internal cast iron single-ingot ballast, glassed over to reinforce hull section.
• Laminated bowsprit with double anchor rollers.

Hardware and Equipment

• Aluminum spar set and stainless steel standing rigging to designer’s specifications.
• Yacht braid running rigging and pre-stretched yacht braid halyards with snap shackles.
• Jiffy reefing, outhaul, and topping lift.
• Eight LEWMAR winches:
  • Primaries – 2 #30C
  • Secondaries – 2 #8C
  • Mainsheet – 1 #24C
  • Main halyard – 1 #16C
  • Yankee halyard – 1 #16C
  • Staysail halyard – 1 #8C
• Roller bearing mainsheet traveler.
• Aluminum Genoa and staysail sheet tracks.
• Schaefer blocks for all running rigging.
• Double rail stainless steel bow and stern pulpits.
• Double lifelines with opening gates P & S.
• All deck hardware thru-bolted with stainless steel backing plates.
• Tiller steering, laminated hardwood tiller handle.
• Bronze lever-action seacocks.
• Stainless steel deck pipe to chain locker.
• Sampson post, six hawse fairleads and mooring cleats.
• Large teak double-opening skylight over main salon.
• Teak opening hatch at forward end of cabin.
• Ten bronze opening ports with stainless steel exterior trim rings.
• Two forward dorade vents.
• Teak caprail, cockpit coaming and cabin accent trim, cockpit and bow well gratings.
• One large, deep cockpit locker.
• Louvered teak companionway doors and drop boards.
• Vented cockpit propane locker for one 5gallon bottle.

Sails

• Mainsail with two reef rows and mainsail cover.
• Yankee jib with ready bag.
• Staysail with ready bag.

Tankage and Machinery

• 27 hp Yanmar three cylinder FWC marine diesel engine.
• 40 gallon baffled black iron fuel tank with large inspection port.
• 90 gallons fresh water in two baffled stainless steel tanks with large inspection ports.
• Fresh water hand or foot pumps in galley and head.
• Enclosed marine head with holding tank and “Y” valve.
• Two bilge pumps (manual and 12 volt electric).

Electrical

• 12 volt and 110 volt electrical systems with circuit breaker panel and shore power connection.
• 100 A/H heavy duty marine battery with 4-way switch.
• Navigation lights to International Rules.
• Mast anchor and foredeck lights.
• Electrical bonding system to chainplates, tanks, thru-hulls, etc.

Interior

• Choice of sleeping accommodations for four or five.
• Large double berth forward with lockers and drawers below, louvered lockers and shelves P & S or …
• Traditional V-berth with filler, lockers below and louvered lockers and shelves P & S.
• Large hanging locker, port forward with louvered door.
• Highest quality teak veneer interior bulkheads.
• Enclosed head with Formica interior bulkheads, teak louvered locker and mirror, sink and Formica counter top. Shower sump & grating.
• P & S settee/berths with louvered lockers, shelves, and seatback lockers.
• Bulkhead-mounted fold-down teak dropleaf table.
• Teak overhead grabrails.
• Teak/lightwood cabin sole.
• Extremely efficient galley arrangement with large well insulated top loading ice box; large asbestos/stainless steel lined stove area; stainless steel sinks with covers; easily cleaned Formica counter tops; and numerous drawers, lockers, and shelves throughout the galley area.
• Navigation station located starboard aft, with hinged chart table storage, shelves, and lockers.
• Drained wet locker at companionway, starboard.
• Traditional quarterberth aft with storage below, or ….
• Large louvered storage locker aft of navigation seat, plus additional cockpit locker.
• 4″ foam, vinyl cushions.
• Spruce battening on exposed hull areas within cabin.

Options

The specification sheet (shown above) is from the 1985-1986 era Baba 30s.  Several variations and options were found on Babas throughout their life cycle including:

• Wooden spars instead of aluminum were standard on earlier models.
• Wheel steering was frequently substituted for tiller.
• Lapstrakes were all-teak instead of fiberglass inlays in later models.
• Volvo and Perkins diesels were used in earlier models.
• Salon tables were sometimes fixed, floor-mounted instead of bulkhead-mounted.
• Decks were often teak, others were textured, non-skid.
• Older models had solid teak staves instead of veneer bulkheads.
• Options included marble vanity tops, and prisms in foredeck.