Fountaine Pajot
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The world’s leading
builder of cruising catamarans, the
Fountaine Pajot boatyard was set up in
1976 near La Rochelle, France. The
original team consisted of four people and
built the 505 under the leadership of
Jean-François FOUNTAINE,
a well known regatta competitor recently
returned from the Montreal Olympics.
Innovative and well built, these craft
immediately attracted French competitors.
The enterprise then developed further, with
other models of dinghies, the 420 and 470,
built at the new Aigrefeuille yard, opened
in 1978.
The yard’s first series
production catamaran, the Louisiane 37
launched in 1983. This 11 meter
craft was designed with the collaboration of
Michel Joubert et Bernard Nivelt. Built of
PVC foam-core sandwich, with all the
experience of this technology that Fountaine
Pajot had gained by now, the Louisiane met
with immediate commercial success.
From Louisiane until today, Fountaine Pajot extended its production area
with the aim of quickly developing its product range. Catamarans ranging
from 30 to 60 feet -with the marvellous Eleuthera 60 of 2004- were built.
New "inventions" in the catamaran market introduced, like the 'Day Charter"
catamaran, which is a big Cat (Taiti 75 is 22,8 m.) with accommodation
only for a couple (the crew) and large open space area capable of carrying 30
passengers.
Not nesting on their laurels, the enterprise once again made
headlines with the launch in 1998 of a
series of power cruising catamarans,
Trawlers Catamarans,
incorporating the whole philosophy of Fountaine
Pajot sailing craft. In two years, the
Maryland 37 and the
Greenland 34 had made
the name of the brand in the power boat world.
Today -2007- Fountaine Pajot has built more
than 1.500 Cats and has three lines of
production; the Sailing, the
Trawler and the Day Charter Cats.
Proud of the ground covered in 30 years of
activity and moreover the most important is
the road ahead which we’ll take together
with our boats. |
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