> 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
