THE PERFECT HARMONY OF PERFORMANCE & LIVABILITY

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.

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RESTORING BALANCE TO THE CATAMARAN UNIVERSE

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In addition to being a yacht of the finest quality, the new “Versa-helm” is so elegant, wise and functional one wonders why nobody thought to do it before…

Forward-raked wave piercing bows, foam core hulls, decks and furniture, carbon reinforced, she offers incomparable performance and stunning design. The 482 can be crafted with with either dagger-boards or high performance fixed keels.

SHE’S DESIGNED FOR A CRUISING COUPLE UNWILLING TO SACRIFICE PERFORMANCE

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GREEN & STRONG

Balance Catamarans reserves the right to make alterations to specifications and general arrangements without notifications.

THE NEW BALANCE 482PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS

Metric Imperial

Length Overall 14,71m 48,26 ft

Length Waterline 14,71 m 48,26 ft

Beam 7,9 m 25,91 ft

Hull Beam 2,3 m 7,55 ft

Draft (Board Up) 1,16 m 3,81 ft

Draft (Board Down 2,2 m 7,22 ft

Air Draft 21,76 m 71,39 ft

Displacement (Base Boat Lightship) 11 315 kgs 24 950 lbs

Displacement (Max Load) 15 000 kgs 33 075 lbs

With her powerful 1,432 square foot sail-plan the Balance 482 will ghost along in 5 knot winds while the others are burning diesel. Like all Balance designs, the 482 is one Green Machine. When it’s blowing, however, just furl in her headsails, reef her down, and keep on going. She’s built to withstand the worst weather you’d ever wish to sail in.

SAIL AREAS

Metric Imperial

Sail Area Total (100% Foretriangle) 133,1 m2 1 432 ft2

Mainsail 89,6 m2 964 ft2

82% Working Jib - Furling 43,5 m2 468 ft2

Storm Jib (Optional) 10,0 m2 107 ft2

115% Screacher - Furling (Optional) 72,9 m2 784 ft2

Asymmetrical Spinnaker (Optional) 183,1 m2 1 970 ft2

GENERAL

Engines 2 x Yanmar 4JH45 – SD60

Ships Batteries Mastervolt Gel Series 400 Ah 24 V

Fuel Capacity 2 x 400 liters 2 x 105 gals

Fresh Water Capacity 2 x 390 liters 2 x 103 gals

Black Water Capacity 2 x 61 liters 2 x 16 gals

Designer Du Toit Yacht Design

Classification CE Category A

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GRACIOUS LIVING UNDERWAY OR AT ANCHORWith her owner version configuration, the Balance 482 easily accommodates up to six people for a long voyage. Our innovative salon table converts into a queen size bed so you can always sleep another couple if required.

It is a superb place to hang out, read a book, or sleep when your partner is on watch.

Her master shower aft is luxurious, and the 482 sports 6 foot 10 inches of headroom, boasts a large U-shaped galley, and offers more cabinetry than any performance catamaran of her size and class.

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SPEED, EASE OF OPERATION

The 482 is fast, sure. But she’s easily operated single-handed if required. Her self-tending blade jib makes tacking a simple matter of turning over the helm. All of her reefing and sail management takes place at the upper helm station. With her dual furling headsails, electric winches, and a mainsheet system that operates without a traveler, you don’t need to be a racer to sail her.

AMAZING SIGHT LINES WITH OUR AWARD-WINNING VERSA-HELM

The new 482 delivers the most expansive sight lines in the catamaran industry today. The flow and openness between the main salon and the cockpit are superb, and her permanent up and down helm stations take the ground breaking Versa-Helm design to an entire new level. Spitting rain? Cold And tired? Who cares? You’re sailing a Balance.

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It was clear that Berman and Dutoit had spent hundreds of hours to design what they felt was the ultimate blue-water performance cat.

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WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL?

It’s been said before that, “Balance Doesn’t Make Perfect – Only Perfect Balance Makes Perfect.” This sums up our designs perfectly! We’ve thought through every aspect of the 482 to strike a careful Balance between speed and comfort.

Racers at heart, Berman and du Toit are also deeply practical sailors who’ve spent thousands of miles at sea. For them, a great catamaran must live as well as it sails. A superb galley, great sleeping and eating spaces, plenty of storage, and enchanting areas in which to live and play - inside or outside - this is our 482.

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This is one very, very fast catamaran – laden or empty…a sort of BMW M series for the open seas.

She’s a pleasure to move about on, to sleep on, cook, lounge, bathe, dine and entertain friends and family.

There is a place to store everything on the 482, and a lot of places to just hang out and relax – you can pilot her up top in fair weather, pilot her down in the cold, you can lounge and read inside or outside, turn your tables into beds, into dining tables, into pleasure nooks for reading or watching the latest film. The 482 is your home away from home.

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Exposure to bad weather on the 482 is minimized while your ability to sail away from the worst is maximized. But sailing fast isn’t enough, is it? No catamaran should brag about being the first at anchor if she’s not also a sheer delight to live on. That’s why the 482 is the most gracious live-aboard catamaran we could possibly design.

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