Bali 4.4

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The Bali 4.4, on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from Sailing Zephyr

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LightHeavy

174 — light for her waterline, so she is easily driven and quick to accelerate.

Displacement / length 174

EasygoingPowered-up

21.1 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.

Sail area / displacement 21.1

Heavier than ~82% of boats her size on file

Compared with 268 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Bali 4.4, as the fleet has seen it

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The Bali 4.4 is a 13.5-meter fractional sloop catamaran with twin keels, designed by Xavier Fay and Olivier Poncin, and built by Bali Catamarans since 2022. It has a beam of 7.4 meters, a draft of 1.3 meters, and displaces 13,600 kg. Aboard *Sailing Zephyr*, a new Bali 4.4 was delivered from the Annapolis Boat Show to the South River Marina, marking the crew's first experience operating a catamaran.6:27 The delivery involved navigating tight marina slips and avoiding crab pots.7:50 This particular Bali 4.4, destined for charter service in the British Virgin Islands, lacked a wind gauge and winch handles, requiring the crew to use electric winches for mainsail hoisting.10:38

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Rig & sail area

Rig

Fractional Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

21.1

Displacement / length

173.8

Hull

Hull type

Catamaran Twin Keel

Construction

Fiberglass

Production

Years built

First built 2022

Designer

Xavier Fay, Olivier Poncin

Builder

Bali Catamarans

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The family

Boats like this

Nearby designs by size, type, and era — worth a look alongside her.

Bali 4.2A modern twin-keel catamaran featuring a wide 7.07-metre beam and an open-concept layout designed for spacious cruising Bali 4.3A 13.1-metre catamaran featuring a shallow 0.95-metre draft and a rigid foredeck designed for open-plan living Bali 4.5A 13.6-metre twin-keel catamaran with a high 30.08 sail area-to-displacement ratio for spirited coastal performance Bali 4.6A 14.36-metre catamaran featuring a solid foredeck and a high sail-area-to-displacement ratio for spirited cruising Bali 5.8A 2024 Xavier Fay-designed catamaran featuring a high sail-area-to-displacement ratio for spirited performance Bali 4.1A 12.12-metre twin-keel catamaran successor to the Bali 4.0, offering a 25.05 sail-area-to-displacement ratio

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