Captain Will Miller walks through a 2022 Bali 4.8 with solid foredeck, tilt-and-turn salon wall and six en-suite cabins — a floating villa rigged for oceans or charter.
Some catamarans are designed to look good at anchor. The Bali 4.8 is designed to make the whole boat usable — at anchor, underway, and everywhere in between. In a detailed walkthrough of the 2022 Bali 4.8 S/V Always Sunday, Captain Will Miller of The Multihull Company makes the case for a 48-footer that behaves like a villa but still crosses oceans.
Space where you don’t expect it
The first thing Miller points out is Bali’s trademark solid foredeck. Where most cats have trampolines, the 4.8 has a rigid, expansive lounge — more usable living space, more structural rigidity, and a safer place to move around while sailing. A walk-through door from the salon leads straight out to it, opening onto a second dining and lounging zone with sunpads, a daybed and an integrated table. As Miller puts it, it’s a feature you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.
Aft, the boat’s signature party trick: the tilt-and-turn garage door that lifts the salon’s aft bulkhead at the push of a button, merging salon and cockpit into one continuous open-plan space. The galley is laid out for genuine cooking at sea, with high-end appliances, full-size door refrigerators and a freezer, plus real counter space.
Six cabins, six heads
Below, the layout is the six-cabin, six-head configuration — each cabin with its own en-suite, plus the forepeaks finished out as crew quarters. Miller frames it as the ideal spec for either side of the ownership equation: it satisfies the requirements of global charter fleets, and in private hands the extra cabins become an office, a kids’ room, or space for full-time crew. Storage is deep, with underfloor compartments, cabinets and floor lockers. A washer and dryer, a wine fridge and a plancha on the stern round out the liveaboard picture.
Systems for going further
Construction is vacuum-infused composite with closed-cell foam cores, and Always Sunday carries a purposeful equipment list: upgraded twin Yanmar 57-horsepower diesels with high-output alternators, a 500W solar array, Victron smart monitoring, and an Aquawash watermaker so water no longer ties you to a dock. The flybridge helm is fully integrated with Raymarine electronics — multifunction displays, autopilot, AIS and chartplotter — with all lines led aft to the helm and electric winches added for shorthanded sailing.
Performance, Miller argues, shouldn’t be an afterthought here. A square-top mainsail and self-tacking jib deliver manageable power; high bridge-deck clearance smooths the motion in chop; and the optional flybridge hardtop keeps the 360-degree helm view shaded and dry. He cites consistent speeds of 8 to 10 knots in moderate conditions, with peaks in the low teens off the wind.
Where the 4.8 sits in the market
The model has a real track record on the brokerage side, which is worth knowing before you make an offer.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Bali 4.8 sold, last 24 months | 6 |
| Median sold price | $860,000 |
| Median time to sell | ~176 days |
| Active listings now | 5 |
| Asking range | $599,000 – $1,399,000 |
| Median asking price | $998,000 |
| Median sold (24 mo) | $860,000 | |||
| Median asking (active) | $998,000 | |||
| Lowest asking | $599,000 | |||
| Highest asking | $1,399,000 |
Miller invites interested buyers to contact him directly for specifications, pricing or charter management options on Always Sunday.