Bali 38 Catsmart Sail Catamarans For Sale

Bali unveiled the Catsmart 38 at the La Grande Motte boat show, and by the tour guide’s account it was one of the busiest boats on the docks — so packed with visitors that filming it was a little chaotic. That popularity is easy to understand once you walk the deck: this is a 38-footer that borrows almost every trick from Bali’s larger models and squeezes them into a package a couple can actually manage. Twin aft helms and 360-degree awareness The walkthrough starts at the boat’s signature feature: two twin aft helm stations.…

Some catamarans need a badge to tell you who built them. The Bali 38 Catsmart doesn’t. The nose, the face, the solid foredeck — the family resemblance is immediate. But as the walkthrough video makes clear within its first minute, this 38-footer isn’t simply a shrunken version of her bigger sisters. She has, in the presenter’s words, her own temperament. The headline decision is what’s not here: there’s no flybridge. On a boat this size, the explanation goes, a flybridge would have pushed the rig too high and forced a smaller mainsail — a compromise that would have hurt performance badly.…