Bali Catamarans

Bali was launched in 2014 by Catana Group as a second brand, conceived by founder Olivier Poncin to open the catamaran to a far wider clientele than Catana's daggerboard performance cats. The concept broke squarely with convention: a rigid composite foredeck in place of the trampoline, and a glazed tilting door that merges saloon and cockpit into one continuous, open-plan living space.

The market answered decisively. Within a decade Bali went from a single model to roughly ten sail and power catamarans between 40 and 58 feet, built in Canet-en-Roussillon and lifting Catana Group's output to several hundred boats a year. Purists question the windage and the payload; families and charter operators, who buy most of them, have made Bali the fastest-growing name in the segment.