The Story The Balance 760 F  was designed for those who seek a very high performance catamaran but still want a fly bridge design. As with all of our yachts, each is a semi-custom project to suit the exact needs of our customers. The 760 F is made with E-glass, carbon, foam cores and epoxy resins. Nothing short of the best is used in her fabrication. Pricing for the 760 Flybridge starts at $3,699,000.  All prices are FOB Cape Town, South Africa.

THE DESIGN The Balance 690 is a purpose built day charter catamaran, certified to carry 150 passengers on both upper and lower deck dance floors. She is built in epoxy and e-glass and designed for the rough, daily use and abuse that any dedicated day charter cat experiences. From the time or order to launch is approximately 10 to 12 months.  FEATURES The Balance 690 is foam core, e-glass, carbon reinforced and only epoxy resins are used in her layup. She has two heads, a large bar, and a dedicated piloting station for professional operations.  She can be built in a tall rigged version to sail swiftly with 150 passengers, or with a shorter rig and larger engines for tours that require specific on time arrivals and departures. ABOUT BALANCE Founded by World Champion catamaran racer and author Phillip Berman, Balance Day Charter Catamarans are crafted from the years we have spent working for a range of our day charter customers in Hawaii, Barbados, St. Lucia and the Virgin Islands.  After managing the sale of hundreds of catamarans over the past decade – new and used – we’ve learned how day catamarans are built, how they break and fall apart, how they sail in the most dangerous conditions, which systems tend to work and fail, and how they are “really” used by charter operators and their customers.  We’ve concluded that the day catamarans currently offered by our primary competitors are overpriced and not built robustly enough for the daily abuse a true day charter catamaran experiences. Balance day charter catamarans result directly from the enormous fund of experience we have gained through working with charter operators for over two decades. There really is no substitute for experience and the direct relationships we have had with charter operators has given us the invaluable feedback we’ve relied upon in the design of each Balance day charter catamaran that we build. We build day charter cats in a range of sizes and prices to serve the needs of a wide variety of charter operators. OUR SUCCESS Balance Catamarans was founded in 2012 and has launched four 60 footers, nine 45 footers, six 52 footers, and one 76 footer. Our catamarans are sailing on every major ocean in the world and have met with critical praise by every major yachting publication. The Balance 526 was the winner of Cruising World Magazines 2017 Import Yacht of the Year (the grand prize) as well Best Multihull Over 50 feet. To learn all about these truly exceptional yachts, to request our pricing, we encourage you to visit our website: balancecatamarans.com   

THE DESIGN The Balance 451 is a high performance world voyaging catamaran designed to be single or double-handed. She is built to ABS Offshore Standards with vinyl-ester resin, e-glass and carbon reinforcement in all high load areas. She sports dual dagger-boards, small protective keels, a self-tending blade jib, a large bowsprit, and a powerful Selden rig. She sails smartly in light airs and often does windspeed when reaching in 8 knots of wind. All of the equipment used in her fabrication is of the highest quality. Her hand-made, foam-sandwhich cabinetry is far superior to the products offered by French production builders. As with all of our designs, the focus is on speed, simplicity and practicality for people who will often be sailing far from marine repair facilities. To date we have launched ten hulls of this very sporty design. Prices for the 451 start at $470,000. All prices are FOB Hong Kong. Please note that is an ad for a newly ordered Balance 451. We only build these yachts on a semi-custom as ordered basis. To learn about current production times and when we can launch our next hull, please contact us. FEATURES She carries dual dagger-boards with mini keels, a self-tending blade jib, seven foot long carbon bowsprit, is all foam core, carbon reinforced, and only vinyl-ester-resins are used in her hull and deck layup. She can be built in a three cabin owner version or a four cabin version. Her interior cabinets and floors are all made custom to owner specifications. She is a very high performance catamaran built to a standard of quality that far surpasses French production cats.  ABOUT BALANCE Founded by World Champion catamaran racer and author Phillip Berman, Balance Catamarans are the finest high-performance adventure catamarans on the planet. After managing the sale of hundreds of catamarans over the past decade – new and used – we’ve learned how catamarans are built, how they break and fall apart, how they sail in the most dangerous conditions, which systems tend to work and fail, and how they are “really” used by sailors. We’ve concluded that none of the catamarans currently offered by the major production builders are ideally suited to the needs, budgets, and performance expectations of today’s committed liveaboard voyagers. The catamaran market has simply focused too much on the charter trade and lost the ideal balance of performance, comfort, quality, and practical seamanlike features required by serious sailors. Balance Catamarans result directly from the enormous fund of experience we have gained through sea trials, numerous builds and designs, owner feedback and the collective result of millions of blue water miles. There really is no substitute for experience and the direct relationships we have had, both individually, and with hundreds of catamaran sailors, has given us the invaluable feedback we’ve relied upon in the design of each Balance Catamaran that we build. OUR SUCCESS Balance Catamarans was founded in 2012 and has launched four 60 footers, nine 45 footers, six 52 footers, and one 76 footer. Our catamarans are sailing on every ocean in the world and have met with critical praise by major yachting publications. All of our owners are highly experienced sailors who will not settle for anything but the best. The Balance 526 was the winner of Cruising World Magazines 2017 Import Yacht of the Year (the grand prize) as well Best Multihull Over 50 feet. To learn all about these truly exceptional yachts, we encourage you to visit our website: balancecatamarans.com   

The Balance 762 XP Story The Balance 762 XP is a ultra high performance world voyaging catamaran made custom to achieve our customers exact needs. She will be the fastest performance cruising catamaran ever built in this size range that is still capable of blue water voyaging to distant locations. She will easily average 14 to 16 knots over 24 hour periods and exceed 25 knots. Her long fine hulls, forward raked wave piercing bows and low swept rig give her an aggressive profile that translates into real speed. At the same time her interior is luxurious and comfortable for a high performance yacht of her size. All e-glass, epoxy, foam core, heavily carbon reinforced in high load areas, she’s a state of the art performance cat for the sailor who will accept no compromise when it comes to speed. Prices for the 762 XP start at $3,599,000.

Climb aboard the new Balance 442 and behold the boldly contemporary lines of our trend-setting high performance blue water voyager. Designed by World Champion catamaran racer Phillip Berman and Award Winning naval architect Anton Du Toit, the Balance 442 is blue water tough, fast as a gazelle, yet exceptionally easy to handle.  

Climb aboard the new Balance 482 and behold the boldly contemporary lines of our trend setting high performance blue water voyager.  Designed by World Champion catamaran racer Phillip Berman and Award Winning naval architect Anton Du Toit, the Balance 482 is blue water tough, fast as a gazelle, yet exceptionally easy to handle.  

Gemini Sunset is a blue water live aboard catamaran. She is a performance cruising catamaran built for speed but also comfort. She is lightweight, has a long waterline, a low boom so a lower centre of gravity, widely spaced hulls and very good bridge clearance. The hulls are pointed and slim so the boat is very streamlined. This makes her sail very well, sail fast and point to windward up to 40 degrees without any loss of speed. The daggerboards reduce leeway considerably so help to keep the boat pointing when going upwind. The helm seat is high enough to see all four corners of the boat, ideal for berthing, but low enough to not interfere with the performance of the mainsail. The enclosure offers superb protection in bad weather yet still gives excellent all around visibility.  The boat is also very comfortable with two good sized double cabins, a large owner’s bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe. There is ample cupboard and locker space. The saloon is very comfortable and the galley is large and well-equipped. The large patio doors permit access to and from the cockpit very easily. For a couple the boat is perfect. The owners use the third single cabin as a workshop and a storage area, still leaving plenty of room to have another couple on board as guests.

THE DESIGN The Balance 620 is an ultra high performance expeditionary class world voyaging catamaran, built with epoxy, e-glass and carbon reinforcement. She is based on our highly successful Balance 601, but incorporates a range of new features and innovations as well as enhanced aesthetics. She is the new big brother of our award-winning 526, Cruising World Magazines Export Yacht of the Year in 2017. The intent of the 620 in our brand range is to offer a high performance, high pay-load capacity expeditionary cat that can be configured as either a three, four, or five cabin yacht. As with all of our larger range catamarans, she is a semi-custom yacht built to our customers exact needs, both in terms of interior configuration and finishes as well as equipment and deck layout. We start with our fully tooled hulls, decks, and coach tops, but the rest of the yacht is totally customer choice. Prices for the 620 start at $2,499,000. All prices are FOB St. Francis, South Africa, facility. balancecatamarans.com FEATURES The Balance 620 is foam core, e-glass, carbon reinforced and only epoxy resins are used in her layup. All of her furniture is hand-crafted foam sand-which. She is a cutter-rig for ease of use by a small crew and designed specifically for high speed oceanic adventure travel. We can build her with a fixed helm or with our ground-breaking, award-winning, Versahelm design, which enables her to be sailed in the open air on pleasant days or piloted down below in total protection in inclement weather using the same carbon wheel. As with all of our designs, the focus is on simplicity and practicality for people who will often be sailing far from marine repair facilities.  ABOUT BALANCE Founded by World Champion catamaran racer and author Phillip Berman, Balance Catamarans are the finest high-performance adventure catamarans on the planet. After managing the sale of hundreds of catamarans over the past decade – new and used – we’ve learned how catamarans are built, how they break and fall apart, how they sail in the most dangerous conditions, which systems tend to work and fail, and how they are “really” used by sailors. We’ve concluded that none of the catamarans currently offered by the major production builders are ideally suited to the needs, budgets, and performance expectations of today’s committed liveaboard voyagers. The catamaran market has simply focused too much on the charter trade and lost the ideal balance of performance, comfort, quality, and practical seamanlike features required by serious sailors. Balance Catamarans result directly from the enormous fund of experience we have gained through sea trials, numerous builds and designs, owner feedback and the collective result of millions of blue water miles. There really is no substitute for experience and the direct relationships we have had, both individually, and with hundreds of catamaran sailors, has given us the invaluable feedback we’ve relied upon in the design of each Balance Catamaran that we build. OUR SUCCESS Balance Catamarans was founded in 2012 and has launched four 60 footers, nine 45 footers, six 52 footers, and one 76 footer. Our catamarans are sailing on every major ocean in the world and have met with critical praise by every major yachting publication. The Balance 526 was the winner of Cruising World Magazines 2017 Import Yacht of the Year (the grand prize) as well Best Multihull Over 50 feet. To learn all about these truly exceptional yachts, to request our pricing, we encourage you to visit our website: balancecatamarans.com  The interior of  the 620 is customer choice.  We currently offer five specific design ethics a customer may choose from or they can hire their own interior designer and will build to suit.  To see the five interior design ethics Balance offers, please visit balancecatamarans.com

THE DESIGN The Balance 680 is an ultra high performance world voyaging catamaran, built with epoxy, e-glass and carbon reinforcement. The 680 can be fabricated with or without a fly bridge design, as all of our yachts are built on a semi-custom basis. She is as fast or faster than any currently designed or marketed 68 foot catamaran in the world today. Prices for the 680 start at $2,899,000. All prices are FOB Cape Town, South Africa. From the time of contract to launch is approximately 24 months.  FEATURES The Balance 680 is foam core, e-glass, carbon reinforced and only epoxy resins are used in her layup. All of her furniture is hand-crafted foam sand-which. She is a cutter-rig for ease of use by a small crew and designed specifically for high speed oceanic adventure travel. For those who opt for the XP version, she sports the ground-breaking, award-winning Versahelm design, enabling her to be sailed in the open air on pleasant days or piloted down below in total protection in inclement weather using the same carbon wheel. As with all of our designs, the focus is on simplicity and practicality for people who will often be sailing far from marine repair facilities. (Note: We can also do the 680 in a fly-bridge, or forward cockpit version. ) ABOUT BALANCE Founded by World Champion catamaran racer and author Phillip Berman, Balance Catamarans are the finest high-performance adventure catamarans on the planet. After managing the sale of hundreds of catamarans over the past decade – new and used – we’ve learned how catamarans are built, how they break and fall apart, how they sail in the most dangerous conditions, which systems tend to work and fail, and how they are “really” used by sailors. We’ve concluded that none of the catamarans currently offered by the major production builders are ideally suited to the needs, budgets, and performance expectations of today’s committed liveaboard voyagers. The catamaran market has simply focused too much on the charter trade and lost the ideal balance of performance, comfort, quality, and practical seamanlike features required by serious sailors. Balance Catamarans result directly from the enormous fund of experience we have gained through sea trials, numerous builds and designs, owner feedback and the collective result of millions of blue water miles. There really is no substitute for experience and the direct relationships we have had, both individually, and with hundreds of catamaran sailors, has given us the invaluable feedback we’ve relied upon in the design of each Balance Catamaran that we build. OUR SUCCESS Balance Catamarans was founded in 2012 and has launched four 60 footers, nine 45 footers, six 52 footers, and one 76 footer. Our catamarans are sailing on every major ocean in the world and have met with critical praise by every major yachting publication. The Balance 526 was the winner of Cruising World Magazines 2017 Import Yacht of the Year (the grand prize) as well Best Multihull Over 50 feet. To learn all about these truly exceptional yachts, we encourage you to visit our website: balancecatamarans.com  The interior of  the 680 is customer choice.  We currently offer five specific design ethics a customer may choose from or they can hire their own interior designer and will build to suit.  To see the five interior design ethics Balance offers, please visit balancecatamarans.com