[1][2][3] The design was built by Bayfield Boat Yard in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, starting in 1984, but the company went out of business in 1988 after a factory fire and production ended.
[1][4] The Bayfield 36 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with teak wood trim.
It has a cutter rig, with anodized aluminum spars, a clipper bow with a bowsprit and trailboards, a raised counter transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel.
[1] The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 4JHE four-cylinder diesel engine of 44 hp (33 kW), with a 2.17:1 reduction gearbox for docking and manoeuvring.
It's easy to argue that the Bayfield 36 is a robust, up-to-date cruising boat that is capable of giving good service to a couple and their guests or a small family.
As the average sailboat gets to look more and more like a space probe, it's refreshing to have a few builders around who choose to buck the tide.