Gabrielle Marie

Gabrielle Marie is the only Bali Catspace in the fleet built as the owner's version. Knot a Fantasea and Let's Geaux split each hull into two guest cabins; on Gabrielle Marie, one hull belongs entirely to the master suite, private head included, and the other has a pair of guest cabins, each with a head of its own. That takes her down to six berths, and it changes the shape of the week. One couple gets a real retreat at one end of the boat, while friends, children or grandparents settle in on the far side of the saloon. She was built in 2023.

At 40 feet, the Catspace is the smallest Bali in Abaco Sail's fleet, but it is built around the same open plan as the bigger models. The glass door at the back of the saloon swings up out of the way like a garage door, so the cockpit and the inside become one shaded room. Forward, Bali builds a solid deck over the bow where most catamarans stretch a net, which gives you somewhere flat to read, sunbathe or sit with a drink after you anchor.

She also differs from her two sister ships in the details. Her Yanmar diesels are rated at 40 hp each, against 30 hp on the other Catspaces, and her water tank holds 201 US gallons, with a watermaker to top it up. She flies a full-batten mainsail and a furling headsail. The air conditioning works on the move as well as at anchor, backed by an onboard generator, and there is Bluetooth audio in the saloon and cockpit, a cockpit grill and a freshwater shower on deck.

We would plan her week around quiet evenings. Hope Town on Elbow Cay, under its red-and-white lighthouse, is about four nautical miles across the water from Marsh Harbour. Farther south, the sandbar off Tahiti Beach appears as the tide drops, and Little Harbour, with Pete's Pub on the beach, makes an easy last stop before the run home. Her 3.6-foot draft suits the Sea of Abaco, where so much of the good anchoring is in shallow water over sand.

Abaco Sail prices her per boat rather than per person, and by season. Between October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2027, her weekly rate runs from $4,565 (August 1–18) to $13,695 (December 24 – January 6), plus the mandatory Comfort Pack: $1,000 for the first week and $600 for each week after that. The 10% Bahamian VAT is already in those rates, and a 4% cruising tax is added. The Comfort Pack pays for your cruising and fishing permits, the dinghy and outboard, linen and towels, a chart briefing, a welcome pack, end-of-charter cleaning and a damage deposit reduction waiver.

We book Gabrielle Marie as Abaco Sail's agent, and she sails from their base at Conch Inn Marina in Marsh Harbour. Experienced sailors can take her bareboat. If you would rather leave the cuts and the anchoring to someone local, we can arrange a skipper through Abaco Sail. Charters run from four nights, each night priced at one-sixth of the weekly rate, and check-in is at 4:00 PM. Tell us when you would like to sail and we will check her calendar alongside her two sister ships.