On second thought I should have said the Bali 4.5’s mast is too far aft. Maybe that’s the price for that nice forward seating area.
Cheers, Randy > On Apr 27, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Randy Stafford via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 27, 2019, at 11:44 AM, Bruno Lachance via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> >> A friend of mine just came back from a BVIs charter on a Bali 4.0 cat. He >> was so disappointed with the "sailing" part of his trip. He missed his CS36 >> upwind that's all I will report. > > That’s funny, I just chartered a 2019 Bali 4.5 in the BVI three weeks ago. I > chose it on purpose after researching every four-cabin, four-head cat > available for charter in the Virgins - primarily because it has a nice > seating area forward of the deckhouse. And it was the right choice for the > trip, from a social perspective. > > But we had a hell of a time getting the helm balanced, no matter the point of > sail or wind speed. Even with a flybridge, the main had so much more area > than the jib that we’d have to ease it so much to center the rudder that we’d > start losing power from it. Seems like the Bali’s mast is too far forward. > So we just basically lived with 5-10 degrees of rudder angle all week, except > one day upwind from St. John to Cooper Island we somehow found a better > balance. We made Anegada to Jost one day, some 25nm on port tack broad > reach, in about four hours double-reefed with a peak speed of 9+ kts, but > never broke into the double digits. > > My wife wants to charter a monohull next time, and of course so would I. If > I remember correctly there were a few Bavarias and Dufours in the charter > fleets, apart from the typical Beneteaus and Jenneaus. > > Cheers, > Randy > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
