The Balance 750 Series
The Balance 750 Series is built for sailors who refuse to choose between speed and comfort. There’s a reason we call her a Balance. Whether you’re chasing razor-edged performance or the freedom of serious blue-water cruising, there’s a 750 shaped around your ambitions, fusing velocity, livability, and the freedom to customize her entirely your own.
Three ways to own the horizon.
THE 750 CX
CARBON CROSS
The CX is made for the passage-maker who still loves to feel the boat come alive under sail. Her hybrid E-glass and carbon epoxy hull places carbon fiber exactly where the loads run highest, so she’s lighter, stiffer, and more responsive with every gust. An aluminum mast, boom, fore beam, and crossbeam; push-button electric winches; and performance-laminated sails make covering miles a pleasure. Below deck, a hand-crafted real wood veneer interior wraps you in warmth.
THE 750 ULTRA VELO
CARBON CORE
The Ultra Velo takes everything the CX does and turns it up. A full carbon substructure strips away weight and adds rigidity, and the rest is pure cutting-edge catamaran technology: fully hydraulic sail controls, carbon rigging, carbon daggerboards, spars, beams, and a complete wardrobe of North 3Di sails. She’s built for the competitive sailor who wants to chase every tenth of a knot and then step below into genuine luxury. Peak performance, zero compromise.
THE 750 FLYBRIDGE
CARBON CROSS OR CARBON CORE
The Flybridge is for voyagers or charter operators who want more space to live, without giving up the thrill of a true sailing catamaran. Her entire coach roof becomes a panoramic sky deck: the perfect perch for sunset cocktails, long lazy lunches, or simply taking in the view. And on a warm, breezy day, there’s no better place on board to take the helm and feel the wind.
Overview
Overall Length
23.19 m
76.10 ft
Beam Overall
11.34 m
37.19 ft
Sail Area
341.6 m²
3,677 ft²
Designers
Phillip Berman
Draft (Boards Up)
1.92 m
6.3 ft
Displacement (Dependent on Model & Fit Out)
33–36 tons
66,000-72,000 lbs
Anton du Toit
Under Sail
Her powerful rig and sail plan, long waterline, and refined underbody let her sail fast, quietly, and efficiently across a wide range of conditions, while generous underwing clearance ensures comfort at sea. Triple headsails and centralized sail-handling systems make short-handed operation practical, even on a yacht of this size.
Life Inside
The Balance 750 series introduces a new level of onboard living to performance luxury sailing, with expansive indoor-outdoor flow, forward cockpit lounging, and either a full flybridge or a fly-style coach-roof lounge that creates multiple social and relaxation zones both underway and at anchor.
Live Higher
The 750 Flybridge option turns her entire coach roof into a panoramic sky deck, with sunbeds, dining settees, and a second helm under the open sky.
Life Below Deck
Every Balance 750’s below-deck interior is fully customizable to the owner’s specifications — available in three- or four-cabin layouts for private ownership, or four- to six-cabin configurations with private en-suites for luxury crewed charter. Thoughtfully designed work, living, and service areas complement the elegant accommodations, while generous tankage, energy capacity, and storage deliver true global cruising range.
Take the Helms
The Balance 750 features several distinct helm locations, together with a forward cockpit. The CX & Ultra Velo models sport a fixed carbon helm to port, as well as a carbon VersaHelm™ to starboard that can pivot down 90 degrees into the aft cockpit for sailing in full protection during inclement weather. The Flybridge version features a flybridge helm as well as a VersaHelm™ on her starboard salon bulkhead. Every piloting position offers exceptional visibility, redundancy, and control, whether sailing offshore or maneuvering in close quarters. The 750 offers the most expansive sightlines in the catamaran world today.
Tour the 750 Ultra Velo
The Balance 750 is not simply a much larger catamaran than the rest of our renowned fleet; she is a purpose-built, cutting-edge, high-performance yacht that delivers luxury without compromise, speed without sacrifice, and gives passengers the unmistakable feeling of being fully free and themselves at sea.
Performance
The Balance 750 series is our proof-of-concept flagship built to push the boundaries of what a luxury catamaran can do under sail. Each model shares a 100% foam-core epoxy build, with full carbon and carbon/E-glass blended laminates concentrated in their high-load areas for a lighter, stiffer platform; the Ultra Velo goes further still with a full carbon substructure — her Carbon Core — for even greater rigidity and reduced displacement. The Flybridge is offered in either CX or CC versions. Triple headsails and centralized sail-handling systems put commanding power at your fingertips. Carbon daggerboards, a long waterline, and a refined underbody sharpen her upwind angles and quiet her passage through the water, while her powerful sail plan and generous underwing clearance keep her fast and composed across a wide range of conditions. Her many distinct piloting positions — including a protected VersaHelm™ that pivots down for full weather cover — mean the 750 never asks you to trade control for comfort, or speed for the feeling of being fully free at sea.
* Polars are known as Velocity Performance Predictions (VPP’s). Balance polars are calculated using advanced computer modeling from the Wolfson Unit at the University of Southampton. The polars shown here were produced to reflect the performance of a fully equipped 750 CX or Ultra Velo at a 35-ton cruise-equipped weight. The weight range for the 750 series, fully equipped, will be 33-36 tons for luxury expeditionary voyaging. We do not run polars at lightship displacements because they are a poor predictor of catamaran performance in real-world conditions. Our polars assume a flat sea state, properly trimmed sails, and a clean bottom. Polars of any kind, however, do not guarantee specific performance. Vessel performance in real-world conditions varies with sea state, hull condition, payloads, and the helmsman’s skill. To learn more about VPP’s and catamaran performance, click below to view our eight-part Catamaran Conversations video series.
Construction
The 750 CX or 750 CX Flybridge are crafted with foam core-cell hulls and decks in 100% epoxy resins. They are structurally stiffened with carbon reinforcement across their primary mast beam/bulkhead, their primary aft beam/bulkhead, their daggerboards, and their wet deck under the mast. Their secondary bulkheads, partition panels, cabin soles, and saloon floor are in E-glass with VE resin.
The entire interior core structure of the 750 Ultra Velo or 750 Ultra Velo Flybridge are crafted in carbon fiber – their cabin soles, partition panels, primary beams, bulkheads, saloon floor and tray, daggerboards and trunks, as well as their rudders are full carbon construction. We wrap their carbon substructure with vacuum-bagged closed-cell foam cores and e-glass in 100% epoxy resin, producing an even lighter, stiffer, quieter, and more sea-kindly performance catamaran when sailing at high speeds. The carbon core weighs approximately 1000 kg (2,200 pounds) less than our CX models, producing a measurable boost in performance and added payload capacity.
Full Specs
Overall Length
23.19 m / 76.10 ft
Waterline Length
23.18 m / 76.04 ft
Beam Overall
11.34 m / 37.19 ft
Main Sail
229 m² / 2,465 ft²
Working Self-Tacking Jib
100.5 m² / 1,082 ft²
Sail Area (100% Foretriangle)
341.6 m² / 3,677 ft²
Asymmetric Spinnaker
477.10 m² / 5,135 ft²
Draft (Boards Down)
3.86 m / 12.6 ft
Draft (Boards Up)
1.92 m / 6.3 ft
Air Draft / Mast Clearance
33 m / 108 ft
Bridgedeck Clearance
1.12 m / 3.67 ft
Displacement (750 CX)
35–36 tons approx., depending on spec
Displacement (750 Ultra Velo)
33–34 tons approx., depending on spec
Davit Load
500 kgs / 1,102 lbs per arm
Max Tender Length: 5.05 m / 16.6 ft
Max Tender Weight with Outboard: 400 kgs / 882 lbs
Screacher / Reacher
216.38 m² / 2,329 ft²
Engine
2 × Yanmar 4JH110 with SD15 saildrives
Fuel Capacity
2,000 ltrs / 530 gals
Fresh Water Capacity
1,500 ltrs / 396 gals
Black Water Capacity
250 ltrs / 66 gals
Maximum Load Displacement
41,500 kgs / 91,491 lbs
Payload Capacity
750 CX: ± 6,000 kgs / 13,227 lbs
750 Ultra Velo: ± 7,000 kgs / 15,432 lbs
Please note that, based on component availability and other factors, specifications are subject to change without notice.
The weight of each yacht we build varies based on her interior fit-out, materials chosen, hardware and added equipment. All our catamarans are designed for best-in-class weight and sailing performance, without compromising strength or quality.
Underwing clearance will vary based on the final fit out of the yacht together with what is stored on her, the amount of fuel and water she carries, and the number of passengers onboard.
Reviews
“On the water, Balance Catamarans achieve the elusive combination of excellent performance in a broad range of wind and sea conditions, on most points of sail, with good payload-carrying ability.”
Seahorse Magazine
“Truly impressive…With the scaled-down 442, Balance fills out the family offering with dimensions and a price point that make their designs more accessible to a broader swath of the cruising market. The result is a performance catamaran that’s perfectly positioned to appeal to an experienced sailing couple looking for quality, livability, speed, and savvy systems, all in a true 44-foot package that is a kick to sail.”
Sail, February 6, 2023
“The choice of materials is qualitative (the foam core and wood veneer for furniture), as well as the overall finish, in a word: impeccable.”
Voile Magazine
“I think the Balance 526 represents an important moment in the history of multihull design and evolution…there was something missing in the marketplace that Phil recognized: a high-performance voyaging cat that an experienced couple could take anywhere…finally, we have that a couple can really sail well.”
Tim Murphy, Judge, Cruising World Boat of the Year 2017
“Pretty as she is, every aspect of her design seems to have been refracted through a simplicity prism. Access for repairs is exceptional. The movement from helm to side decks and from side decks to foredecks is a breeze. The wiring and systems installations all reflect a commitment to functional excellence.”
Multihulls World
“Several Balance 526 owners have reported 24-hour periods covering 260 miles or more. This is one very, very fast catamaran, laden or empty.”
Multihulls World
