About this Balance 482
November 2025 Balance 482 (custom 50.2).
Immaculate, turnkey, and offered well below replacement cost.
A reluctant sale, driven by the owner’s health and changing family circumstances, brings to market the most comprehensively equipped and upgraded Balance 482 on the market.
Hull #31 launched in November 2025 at a build cost of approximately $1.9 million. Her owners have since invested further, most recently in $50,000 custom-engineered stern extensions. She is the first of 482 to be offered for sale with this upgrade.
The stern extensions
An independent naval architect designed the extensions using CFD analysis. They add waterline length and buoyancy aft, which makes her faster and more efficient under sail and power and takes her to 50.2 ft.
Balance’s new 502 is an updated version of the 482, built on the same platform with extended sterns. A comparably specified 502 costs about $2.3 million. Pura Vida is a very similar, proven boat for close to $1 million less. No wait and a proven platform.
Power without a generator
She has the Integrel dual E-Drive 15kW generating system with a 36kWh 48V lithium house bank, an upgrade worth more than $100,000. It runs the air conditioning all night and recharges quickly, and there is no diesel generator to run or maintain.
Built for short-handed bluewater sailing
- Six Harken 48V electric winches and an upgraded fishbone boom
- Ullman 75m² Screecher on a Selden furler, a Code D, and a New Generation Parasailor that is brand new and unused
- B&G Zeus SR and Nemesis displays at both helms, Halo20+ radar, Starlink Performance and a PredictWind DataHub
- A spare autopilot ram and NAC-3 corepack, still boxed
Comfortable living aboard
- The three-cabin owner’s version, with the starboard hull dedicated to the owners
- A port aft office with a pull-out double berth, which works for guests or for working remotely
- Frigomar inverter air conditioning throughout (46,000 BTU), a Schenker Zen 50 watermaker and 2.4kW of solar
- A Samsung washer/dryer, induction cooktop, full cockpit enclosure, cockpit fridge and electric grill
- A Highfield CL340 aluminium RIB with a Yamaha F25 on davits
Ready to go
She has fewer than 600 engine hours. She was fully prepared for an Atlantic passage to the Azores, so all of this work is fresh: antifoul, engine and saildrive servicing, new anodes, a rigging inspection, an air conditioning service and topside polishing.
All safety gear is in date, and she comes with an extensive spares inventory, including service kits for two further engine services.
Step aboard and go cruising.
Recent November 2026 independent marine survey available for serious buyers.
Not for sale or charter to U.S. residents while in U.S. waters.
Specifications
General
- Builder
- Balance Catamarans Cape Town
- Model
- Balance 482
- Year
- 2025
- Hull
- Composite
- Status
- Active
Dimensions
- Length Overall
- 50.17 ft
- Beam
- 25' 11"
- Max Draft
- 7' 3"
Tanks & Accommodations
- Cabins
- 3
- Heads
- 2
Engine 1
- Total Power
- 90
- Make
- Yanmar
- Model
- 4JH45
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Inboard
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Hours
- 600
- Power
- 45 hp
Engine 2
- Make
- Yanmar
- Model
- 4JH45
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Inboard
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Hours
- 600
- Power
- 45 hp
Full Description & Equipment
Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
