Balance 482 Sail Catamarans For Sale

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sales on record
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years built
2021–2024
length range
48–48 ft
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Our trend-setting circumnavigator ticks off big nautical miles yet remains small enough to easily maintain and operate short-handed.

With her carbon reinforced foam core hulls and powerful sail plan the 482 was designed to knock off big nautical miles. Upwind she points high, with little leeway, in the 7 to 10 knot range with her high aspect daggerboards. Reaching she blasts along between 8 and 14 knots. Of course if you really want to crank her up in surfing conditions the current record for a 482 is 28 knots.

We use E-glass (a Silica -based fiber) with significant carbon-fiber reinforcement in the high-load areas of our hulls and decks. Every Balance 482 is hand-laminated and vacuum-bagged with closed cell foam cores with a combination of polyester inner-skin resin and vinylester outer-skin resin.

Specifications

TypeMultihull Sailboat
DesignerPhillip Berman and Anton du Toit

Dimensions

LOA14.71m 48.26ft
LWL7.9m 25.91ft
Draft7.25 ft
Mast Height1.16m 3.81ft

Performance

Displacement13,300kgs 29,321lbs

Balance 482 Layouts

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Balance 482 Yachts For Sale

Balance 482

Balance 482 (Chesapeake Bay)

Price $1,549,000 (USD) Duty Paid
Location Annapolis, MD, US (Chesapeake Bay)
S/V inBalance — a 2022 Balance 482, for sale by broker.
InBalance was awarded Best Multihull by Sailing World in 2022 and Best Performance Catamaran by Cruising World in 2022. Experience the catamaran that revolutionized performance cruising. US import duty paid, CBP Form 7501 in hand. Available for in-person tours during the 2026 Annapolis Sailboat Show. InBalance is hull #4 of the Balance 482, commissioned by the founder of Balance Catamarans as his personal boat and specified with nearly every factory option. She is equipped with the full Essential Performance Voyager package: retractable daggerboards, six 48-volt electric winches, and 800 amp-hours of 24-volt lithium behind a dual Integrel charging system, plus an updated five-sail arsenal of Ullman sails.…
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Balance 482
Updated! (Oct 18, 2026)

Balance 482 (Florida)

Price $1,385,000 (USD) Duty Paid
Location St Augustine, FL, US (Florida)
S/V GTFO — a 2024 Balance 482, for sale by broker.
GTFO is the most competitively priced Balance 482 currently available on the pre-owned market. She is now sporting a fresh white hull after the recent removal of her vinyl wrap. “GTFO” means “Got The F**k Out,” and that was exactly the owner’s plan as they sailed into the sunset after retirement. She lives up to that name as a fully equipped world voyager that is ready to carry you across oceans in safety and comfort. GTFO was originally launched in Cape Town, South Africa, in November 2023 and is hull #14 of this coveted high-performance brand.…
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Balance 482 (Florida)

Price $1,525,000 (USD)
Location Fort Lauderdale, FL, US (Florida)
S/V Ke'Ala — a 2021 Balance 482, for sale by broker.
Ke’Ala is by far the best-conditioned Balance 482 available on the pre-owned market! Ke’Ala means “the path” or “the way” in Hawaiian. She lives up to that name as a fully equipped world voyager that is ready to carry you across oceans in safety and comfort. Ke’Ala was originally launched in Cape Town, South Africa in December 2021 and is hull #3 of this coveted high-performance brand. She has always been operated and meticulously maintained by her dedicated owner, who is a professional captain.…
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Educational Articles

Aboard S/V Ke’Ala: A 2021 Balance 482 Walkthrough
New (Sep 23, 2026)

Aboard S/V Ke’Ala: A 2021 Balance 482 Walkthrough

Some used boats arrive on the market with a story that explains their condition. The 2021 Balance 482 S/V Ke’Ala is one of them: she has been owned and maintained by a professional captain, and broker Andrew Hodgdon of The Multihull Company makes that point early in his walkthrough before letting the boat speak for itself. What follows is a detailed, systems-aware tour of a catamaran that was designed, as the brand name suggests, to balance liveaboard comfort against genuine sailing performance.…
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Aboard S/V inBalance: A Balance 482 Built Without Compromise
Aug 22, 2026

Aboard S/V inBalance: A Balance 482 Built Without Compromise

Some boats are simply well specified. Others are built by the person who knows the model best, for themselves. S/V inBalance, a 2022 Balance 482, falls into the second camp: as Conor Dugan of The Multihull Company explains at the start of his walkthrough, she was commissioned by the founder of Balance Catamarans as his personal boat and carries nearly every factory option. Today she’s with her second owners — and the video makes a good case that the original brief has aged very well.…
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Aboard S/V GTFO: A Cruise-Ready 2024 Balance 482
Jul 17, 2026

Aboard S/V GTFO: A Cruise-Ready 2024 Balance 482

Andrew Hodgdon of The Multihull Company met us dockside in St. Augustine, Florida, for a walkthrough of S/V GTFO, a 2024 Balance 482 that has already logged three Atlantic crossings. She’s a proven blue-water platform layered with thoughtful owner upgrades — the kind of boat that rewards a slow, careful tour. Rig, Sails, and Deck GTFO carries Zoom Hydranet sails, a material prized for its shape retention and long service life, paired with a self-tacking jib on track. The wardrobe is deep: code zero, asymmetric, and a symmetrical spinnaker.…
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