ATLAS

ATLAS — Bali Catamarans, 2023 Launched in 2023 by Bali Catamarans, ATLAS is a 16.76m (55ft) sailing catamaran built for the kind of Caribbean cruising that rewards space over speed: wide beam, shallow draft, and the easy stability that lets you set a glass down on deck and forget about it. Accommodation is unusually egalitarian. Four cabins, each with a queen-size bed and its own en-suite — eight guests, no compromise cabin, no one drawing the short straw. On a yacht of this size, that symmetry matters: it works as well for four couples as it does for a family travelling in two generations. A crew of two runs the yacht — enough for genuine service without the sense of a full hotel staff aboard, which is precisely the register most charterers want on a catamaran of this scale. The pace is unhurried: an 8-knot cruise suits the short island hops of her home waters rather than long passages. ATLAS operates in the Caribbean Leewards and the British Virgin Islands — protected water, line-of-sight navigation between anchorages, and the sort of itinerary where the day's biggest decision is which bay to swim in before lunch.