Our New Home & Office: Bali 5.4 Cruising Catamaran

[sv_endless]

I Love this layout of the 5.4. I am currently Living in South Africa, what a mess, but within 2 years my family and I is permanatly moving to Florida, and we are getting into chartering, and this is the perfect platform, for live onbaord and chartering. The long goal is 3 of them.

[GulfstreamSP]

Thanks for the info you honestly sold me on the review of this boat

[brianmercado]

Hello from SA. I am so impressed with your ideas on the Bali 5.4. My wife and I are doing a test sail on one this weekend, and I am expecting great things. Be blessed, and be safe.

[anchorexplorellc]

Congratulations! A beauty! Enjoy and hope to see you both soon.

[SailingLuckyfish]

Great discussion. thanks for going deep into some of the many design features of this new cat. Quite an eye-opener

[Thend]

in rougher waters, your not experiencing loud slamming?

[kristoferlacarrere]

great review as i am interested in going around the world and doing a social documentary about it. This is becoming more and more my choice for the go to boat. Been looking at the sunreefs, eos, but this seems more practical for a number of reasons besides price.

[RusstafaB]

Wow you as a team are so experienced and knowledgable.
Unfortunately there are people who I believe are "masquerading" on YT as experts on Catamarans, an increasing breed who are migrating from monohuls over to Cats. They go under the guise of course as "seasoned sailors" and in my view looking at your many thousand of nautical miles those people will have a tough job catching up with you.
I am especially interested in the water flow rate/dispersion etc between hulls and wonder is much scientific analysis has been done in varying sea conditions?
Anyway one day, maybe if I can persuade my wife I will get a Catamaran, I do like those Bali models and come knock on your door, go off sailing someplace nice.
Many thanks very interesting.

[richardosman]

Very nice Stephen and Estelle. Enjoy her.

[FREAKIN_BRYAN]

Is there any restriction against having the tilting door open while under sail? Has it broken down at all for you?

[BennyTheNerd]

The backside on the flybridge where all the cousins are located, can that be reconfigured to hold additional Solar panels. I am looking for a catamaran that will hold between 2200 to 2400 Kw power, as I have had very bad experiences with butane/gas equipment years ago, and are now terrified using any of those appliances, so oven, stove and BBQ (for me) has to be electrical. Thanks your reply.

[msahakim]

So how fast can it sail compared to the AWS?

[curtthompson]

Meh. Prefer the trampolines and lighter designs