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Lydia B Baba 30 cutter
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Interior pictures Voyage pictures Lydialog Ian Laval Furniture
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The Baba 30 was designed by Robert Perry for long-distance offshore voyaging. About 230 were built to Lloyds standards by the Ta-Shing yard in Taiwan between the late seventies and the mid-eighties. Ta-Shing is still producing high-quality yachts. Ian Laval bought Lydia B in British Columbia in 1999. After two years in Canada fitting her out he sailed her 18,000nm from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, up the Inside Passage to the Alaska border and the Queen Charlotte Islands, down the Pacific coast of North and Central America, through the Panama Canal, across the Caribbean, up the US east coast and across the Atlantic to Britain, arriving at Maryport, Cumbria in July 2003. He crewed another trans-Atlantic boat from Newport, Rhode Island to Plymouth in 1986, the basis for his choice of the Baba 30 for a second voyage. Lydia B was sold on completion of her voyage and is currently in northern England. Lydia B is hull number 61, built in 1979. The Baba 30 is a full-keeled, heavy displacement vessel at home over long distances and in heavy weather. A number have made Pacific and Atlantic crossings and circumnavigations. Lydia B's 2003 Atlantic crossing of 4080nm from the Chesapeake via the Azores to northwest England took 40 days through a mixture of storm, gales and calms. She is a tough, comfortable, attractive and highly capable vessel with an extensive inventory, including radar, Monitor self-steering, wind generator, solar panel and many cruising spares. She is equipped with SSB radio and Pactor II modem for sending and receiving e-mail anywhere at sea. Ian Laval has
worked as a staff correspondent for Reuters in Asia and Africa and for
BBC local radio. Between 1970 and 1999 he ran a business in Cumbria, NW
England, felling and processing native timber and making furniture. Length overall:
33'3" The hull is hand-laid fibreglass. Traditional joinery below is solid Burma teak.
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