BALI 4.0 experience - weak points, problems?

[donradcliffe]

Originally Posted by HuffinPuff

Funny, I just sailed from Grenada to St. Vincent with my AWA of 40 degrees off my starboard side at 18kts and was doing 6.2 kts avg speed.

I am glad you are enjoying your Bali. That's a pretty impressive sail, unless the wind was south of east. Did you have to tack? I would be interested in the COG for each tack to get the real TWA.

[HuffinPuff]

Originally Posted by donradcliffe

I am glad you are enjoying your Bali. That's a pretty impressive sail, unless the wind was south of east. Did you have to tack? I would be interested in the COG for each tack to get the real TWA.

No, I did not have to tack. I did take advantage of the small wind angle changes to get a better heading at times. Here is a copy of my sail path... The winds typically wrap around the islands and tend to come down giving you a more northerly wind. I am going to write up my thoughts on the Bali 4.0 today.

[HUFFnPUFF]

Originally Posted by yeloya

We have a lot of experience with almost all of the Bali range. Some of them have been in our charter fleet, some of them were serviced with us. I don't 4.0, actually 40 ft is now being sold as "catspace" which I know. As you probabily know all BAli's below 4,6 are made in Tunisia and those are extremly problematic in every way. 4.6, 4.8 and 5.4 are much better built. They are all consevatively rigged and not only upwind but they won't sail properly in any direction, prepare to motor 80% of the time. Finally, front cockpit in Bali's is very good idea on nice weather an anchorages but I find it very uncomfortable even dangereous in high seas..

Cheers

Yeloya

If this was the case why did bali come in 4th in the arc race.

https://catamaranguru.com/arc-rally-...sing-bali-5-4/