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Balance Catamarans no longer attending La Grande Motte Boat Show

by Balance Catamarans 19 Mar 2020 09:54 GMT

Due to corona-virus Balance Catamarans will no longer attend the La Grande Motte International Multihull Show in France.

It is with sadness that Balance Catamarans can no longer attend the La Grande Motte International Multihull Show this coming April. We were looking forward to showing one of our Balance 526 catamarans to Europe, conducting demonstration sails and meeting the many Europeans who have been reaching out to us about our product line.

We send our deepest regrets to the lovely staff and owners of this superb boat show. The La Grande Motte International Multihull Show is, to our mind, the best run and most pleasant boat show in the world.

The staff are superb and the "all multihull" nature of the show makes it significantly more intimate and beneficial to those of us in the industry who craft performance-oriented multihulls for sophisticated consumers. We promise to support this show again and look forward to next April when we can attend.

At present Balance is exploring a Balance University late Summer sailing demonstration weekend in Crete on the Balance 526, "KIA PAI".

Stay tuned!

A word from founder

Last week, as the Coronavirus situation grew more dire in the United States, I got an email from Dave and Lisa on the Balance 526, Dragonfly, from the Bahamas:

"Phil, we are headed over to share Sundowners with Jim and Mary Anne on Alani."

The two Balance 526's ran into each other in the Bahamas and the first thought I had was, sure wish I was there! My wife Anne and I had just arrived at our home in Fort Lauderdale and things were getting quite panicky in the U.S. The Bahamas on a catamaran sounded like the place to be! Our son, in a bit of a panic himself, was driving two friends to our home in Philadelphia from NYC. One of them is fighting cancer and could not risk exposure to anyone carrying the virus so now they are hunkered down in the Philadelphia suburbs.

It has become a thing for me to end most of my videos by saying, "Stay in Balance." In a recent US publication I read a prominent psychologist's discussion of the fear and anxiety gripping the world. She kept stressing how vital it was to fight back fear and stress to sustain the strength of our immune systems and mental health. Her final words caught me by surprise, "Stay in Balance." And yes, really, isn't that what it is all about? Finding balance in our lives, finding time to love, laugh and live, time in our lives to give and care, time in our lives to experience gratitude simply because we are here to do so?

The most painful thing about this crisis is that we know that many have died and many more will. The only silver lining that I can see is that the Coronavirus may collectively compel us to confront our own mortality and therefore enrich our appreciation for life's preciousness; to teach us about the stuff that really matters and how to live more vibrantly, compassionately, meaningfully.

On a dark night, on the 4am watch, the stars admonish us to confront our insignificance and temporality. They sober us to the reality that our lives are no dress rehearsal and that it's time to wake up and make the most of the time we have been given.

Stay in Balance,

Phil

balancecatamarans.com

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