MAIA

MAIA — Bali Catamarans, 16.80m Delivered in 2024, MAIA is a 55-foot catamaran from Bali Catamarans, a yard that has built its reputation on open, liveable deck layouts rather than on showmanship. It shows here: the space you get on a modern cruising catamaran of this size has little to do with the figures on paper, and everything to do with how the volume is distributed between the hulls. Her natural cruising ground runs from the Bay of Naples down through the Aeolians and along the Sicilian coast — a stretch where a shallow-draught catamaran genuinely earns its keep. She can tuck into anchorages and bays that deeper monohulls have to admire from further out, and she sits level at anchor, which changes the feel of a long lunch or a night aboard more than most people expect before they try it. A crew of three looks after the yacht and her guests: navigation, cooking and service, with the discretion that a boat of this scale requires. On board, the distance between the galley, the cockpit and the water is measured in steps, and the rhythm of the day tends to organise itself around swimming, eating and moving on to the next island. A straightforward, well-conceived catamaran for a Tyrrhenian summer, in her first seasons and cruising one of the best archipelagos in the Mediterranean.