
Issue #: 199
Published: January / March 2025
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All of the Bali, Catana and Yot models from Catana Group were featured in our videos except... the Bali 4.8! The test days offered by the manufacturer in Port-Pin-Rolland, in the South of France, made the opportunity to offer you the last presentation that was missing!
Find out by clicking here. Our test of the Bali 4.8 was published in Multihulls World #171, in April 2020: you can discover it by clicking here.
The Bali 4.8 is already one of the larger models in the range - there are only the 5.4 and 5.8 which are bigger - and as it maximizes surface areas and volumes, you could be forgiven for thinking you were aboard a catamaran much bigger than 50 feet... Of course, it offers all the Bali features - solid foredeck, interior completely free of bulkheads, tilt-and-turn door and huge 220 V refrigerators and a forward door as a bonus. The manufacturer offers five versions of layout. There is of course the attractive 3-cabin version with a huge owner's hull including separate toilet, interior companionway, but also direct access to the starboard transom; and 4 and 5-cabin versions. But where the 4.8 scores highest is by offering for the first time on a multihull under 50 feet… 6 double cabins and 6 private bathrooms.
Builder: Bali Catamarans
Length: 46’10” (14.28 m)
Beam: 25’10” (7.88 m)
Draft: 4’6” (1.36m)
Light displacement: 32,630 lbs (14.8 t)
Mainsail: 925 sq ft (86 m²)
Self-tacking solent: 505 sq ft (47m²)
Diesel: 264 US gal (1,000 l)
Water: 295 US gal (1,120 l)
Engines: 2 X 45/80 HP
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