Now THAT's a BIG CAT! Check out the new Fountaine Pajot 80 - full tour
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024
- Fountaine Pajot's new flagship Thira 80 is a seriously large catamaran. Toby Hodges tours the first model at its Cannes boat show premiere. Now where to park it?!
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I stood behind a Sunreef 80 that was stern to in Denia last year. Until you are up close you can't appreciate the sheer size of them. It was massive.
They are giving the Sunreef 80 a run for the money😎
Enough power when there is no wind. Galley up if that was mine.
Somebody with the funds to spare will buy this and enjoy the heck out of it regardless of all the shortcomings the critics here seem to point out!!
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first video Ive watched from start to finish. Well executed Toby and informative .
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
What a wonderful thing. Not for everyone looking at the comments, but if you was in the market for a 100+ foot mono that might have 3 - 4 cabins that are smaller in size than the 5 in this, where would your money go?
Thank you for the review, Toby!
YES finally get to see the engine room!! Awesome job Mate!
EXCELLENT VIDEO - Thank you Toby!
Glad you enjoyed it
I think that it needs more couches! 😂
Thats actually a great price at 5-6 million this is basically a sailboat cruise ship you can just live on here stock up on food and the boat produces its own electric & water so you can easily stay on the boat.
The 2600l fuel tanks Tell me alot, thats not a yacht, that will sail too often, it will just go by Motor from anchorage to anchorage
indeed...for people with more dosh than sense 🏴☠️⛵
@@TheClangerseatGreenSoup The emojis tell me you have the right idea. These will be easy targets once the climate collapse starts.
Best to think of these as motor sailers.
Saw where someone said many sailboats are in fact “trawlers with a stick.”
There would be two generators running almost continuously. Air con, refrigerators ect.
Love your reviews, thank you for that video Toby! 👌
Massive beautiful boat totally over the top but when they make them it means there is a market for boats like this I would like to see this sailing in some moderate wind Fountaine Pajot is known for its quality finish and the one I was on the Pajot 51 didn't creak even in stronger waves
a qvote i always favored is: if it isnt useful it isnt beautiful: a tool is only as wonderus as the things you can make with it. and for what do i need more sofas then i can count? i think they need to focus more on the usage on the boats and less on the estetics at show rooms. clearly this boat isnt built for me, but there is a large market for the Outremer 55, so probably even for the larger and less performance based cats w/o crew
That main salon looks like a Bob’s Furniture Warehouse.
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Thank you for the tour 🙂
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Wich one would you pick , sun reef 80 vs FP 80 ?
Pretty much sure that answer is down to what your budget is.
It is indeed a big beautiful boat and Fontaine Pajot has a long time experience but 66 tons, 540hp doesn't sound like a sailing boat to me.
It looks a lot like something made for someone who cares about looks.
Saying so, Mr Hodges would probably not answer while agreeing for obvious reasons.
I dream about a boat I've never seen but that's ok. Happy new year
The high horsepower is necessary to move the large mass of this yacht while motoring. When catamarans attain this size they are seldom intended by manufacturers to be purist sailing yachts. Passenger accommodations come first. I find the carbon rig spec a little odd since this FP80 is anything but a performance cruiser. I guess weight reduction high up will help under certain situations. I see this yacht as a luxury charter first and foremost with its sailing capability to help reduce fuel costs.
@@jamesaron1967 Except Nigel Irens penned the Gunboat 90 over a decade ago and she's a pure class sailing cat' .. . .
@@dancarter482 That may be true but it is a rare case. Pure sailing yachts that size are usually monohulls.
It's made for someone who wants comfort and not to have to worry about his boat attacked by eco terrorists, someone that could have potentially bought a Sunseeker MY and someone who will have professional crew cleaning the solar panels 365 days a year and getting the boat where needed before boarding...
Someone who cares about looks will be on a sunseeker
Good size yacht but in reality they could have done a lot more.
It's obviously built for charter which is probably why it's underwhelming.
They are giving the Sunreef 80 a run for the money😎
Ignoring the Irgasmic Review, just where rhe heck are people going to obtain a Marina Berth for the thing Toby ? Its hard enough finding one in Peak Season for a 50 ft Monohull after all Toby ? 🤔
Great video
is the boat made in carbone or alu ?
The Fountaine Pajot 80 is about 14 Tons lighter than the SunReef 80. It would be nice to have a comparisment in the performance of both ships. More luxorious interior equals less knots crusing speed? Both ships are a killer in living space, but do you need that much for a family of three? Don't take me wrong, I am looking for a live on board for us and trying to find the perfect match. May be 70 Ft is better.
Seriously charter one first just so you can check you are OK with the Bucking Bronco Corkscrew motion that Catamarans all suffer from. One of my favourite Sailing Channels on RUclips is Sailing Sisu, who have a Leopard 45. Me, I just can't coexist with that Motion, and I'm glad I had Sea Trials to check them out prior to Purchase. Pass, Once ine Hull hits a wave prior to the other, you are into it, which makes beating to Windward a real Nightmare "For Me" So just check that you aren't as similarly afflicted as I am? Fingers crossed you aren't. Best Wishes. Bob. 👍🌟🌟🌟❤️
If you are seriously looking for a liveaboard and not for chartering, then a 70ft is not a good idea, unless you want the family of 3 to be crewing all the time. You can't singlehand something like this. If you want to actually relax while on passage, you'll want something 40-50 ft that can be handled by one person most of the time. If you have money for a 70-80ft, then you can get something that actually sails properly, unlike these things. A Balance 526 for example would be more than enough for 3 (but they do 70 footers as well if you really want a large boat). I would look into brands that are not just about luxury but also about performance and build quality. Balance, Outremer, Windelo, Catana, etc.
Make sure you sail at least a week on the boats you're interested in to make sure you like them.
@@Rodrifuuu Agreed on the 40 to 50 foot range , at least for Monohulls, as people don't seem to realise just how difficult it can be to find a Marina Berth even for a 50 foot Monohull Lots of places will not accept Catamarans or Trimarans, because they just take up so much Space, plus where the heck are you going to get them Hauled out ? Great advice to try them out for at least a week, and sailing into the Wind and waves, and especially an angled approach to the waves, so the hulls arive at the wave at different times must be tested for a good period of time, say 8 hours, just to see if you can get on with that motion - it's a sort of Bucking Bronco Corkscrew motion, and frankly, I just can't handle it, and it really does my head in. Remember, in the Real World, you can be stuck with that motion for literally Days. Hence hand on heart, I can Co firm that Catamarans of all Sizes literally Hate Me, so please check to make sure they don't hate you as well. Luckily for me, I get on like a house on fire with Monohulls, which saves me a literal Fortune every year, on Maintenance, Haulouts , Berthing fees, and omg, guess what, I can usually fi d even better views at Anchor, than you can get from a Catamaran. Why ? because I can get into and out of places you Can't with a Cat, of and definitely not as tempting a Target for Pirates and Wreckers either- though my last Sailboat was lost to a Wrecking Gang Working New York Harbour. Whoda Thunk ? 🤔 Best Wishes, and best of luck with finding the right Boat for you. Bob. 👍🌟🌟🌟❤️
@@brownnoise357 Positives and negatives exist for every boat design. Some people can't accept the heeling of monohulls. That's one of the main reasons the multihull market is popular besides living space.
@@jamesaron1967 A Beamy Monohull with a good Hull design if sailed properly obrains good performance with everything being the least stressed, if sailed as upright as possible, which means little heeling. This also blows the fallacy of needing two rudders out of the Water, because the rudder obviously stays pretty vertical, plus has the advantage of not having way too much Space on Deck and interior space for the boat to hurl people around when it gets the wave Contact Bucking Bronco Corkscrew effect that afflicts all Catamarans which also tend to totally suck at making progress upwind. Annual Costs are far higher for a Catamaran as well. Yes Catamarans do have very significant downsides, but marketing people really don't like even mentioning them do they ? If caught in severely deteriorating Conditions - it happens - I'll take the greatly reduced Structural Profile Silhouette of a Monohull , even if it has had a silly deck saloon slapped on it thanks very much. Pay your money, and you go where you want, on what you want basically. Me ? I'll be able to go to places that lots of Catamarans with people on them who tend not to know how to Sail or even bloody Anchor securely can't get to. Good luck with those sorts of people dominating your Anchorages.Party On Bro. Best Wishes. Bob.
I love the high bows. The enclosed foredeck, not so much. More than enough room for a forward dual helm position with a side door onto that beautiful bulwarks for a proper side inspection while docking. I would set it up completely different. Generous garage areas in the stern, then engine/mechanical, then lounge/library one side mirrored into a pantry area other. Then the most selfish consumption of space you've ever seen in a master suite. Finished off by a separated sail locker/fore-peak cabins with en-suite. Galley up, of course. The party always ends up in the kitchen. Boat set up super lite for max performance and four passenger/crew in style. Room for four more in the fore-peaks if the need ever arises. Let's hope not. I'd have none of that 4 other cabins worth of dead weight and drama. Space better spent in a spare parts locker, bigger engine room, better batteries, freezer space and better friends.
Unfortunately, this is ever so slightly above my budget :\. Looks really nice though.
If you wanted a boat like that to sail around the world, would you dress down the interior? Other changes?
Lot of boat, but all the different layouts you can have. FP is about to hit a 101' I think in probably a 3 year period you think? Canne 2026 th FP 101 or 103' eh Toby?
I never like the berths on CAT style yachts. They always look like each other and just not for me.
Although the width of the overall length is its best feature, in my view.
"The width of the overall length...." wha the fcuk are you talking about?!?!!!
Far larger interior than most NYC apartments.
wow, very cool, thanks
Price ?
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dual 500hp electric motors and beefy electric battery packs with perhaps a smaller gas turbine generator and smaller fuel tank would be superior IMHO
integrated Starlink satellite internet with wifi
also wireless steering and propulsion via an app so you could pilot the boat from anywhere on the boat would be hella convenient when docking etc
ello,can oceanis 45 circumnavigate?
This is the epitome of peak consumerism gone mad.
The rich have too much money.
Bet the owner is onboard maybe twice a year. Too much moola indeed.
Amazing how small the crew cabin is on such a big boat .
@@Clover12346they only sleep there
and if your friend got one, I’m sure you’d turn down his onboard party invitations just on principle
built for charter work i'm guessing.
Have the French catamaran makers gone American: If you can't beat the new competition on quality, beat them in size! Nice boat, more a floating home or charter business, than really a home or boat for cruising. That is the problem with these things, about from the pricetag. I hope those extra sugar scoop garage doors into the engine bays are seriously watertight or the acclaimed redundancy of a catamaran, with two engines, steering quadrants and all that could be gone in one bad wave hitting that boat from the aft. The space and look of that thing is stunning though. Happy New Year!
Even though I just can’t get on with Catamarans because they really hate me, there is one that looks to be a very nice Cruising home and I don’t miss a video of their RUclips Channel - Sailing Sisu, and theirs is a Leopard 45. But going to windward in pretty bad weather, the unsynchronised timing of the hulls meeting a wave, and there’s that Bucking Bronco CorkscrewMotion that really does my head in. Fair play though, the Owners do not appear to be affected by it. So to me, anyone seriously considering buying a Catamaran, would probably find it advisable to Charter one for a week or more, and deliberately Sail into waves so the hulls connect at different times, inducing that motion, just to make 100% Sure that they aren’t as badly affected as I am by that motion ? It would be terrible to find out After Buying One, that Catamarans hate you as much as they hate me. Sod’s Law The Wind direction seems to always be coming from where you are heading to, and it can be literally days of seeming never ending Corkscrew Motion. I was lucky with a test sail of a Prout I was interested in Buying, had an ok six hours downwind, but heading back was almost nine hours beating painfully back to port. My dreams of having a Catamaran ended there. Luckily, Monohulls have worked out nicely for me, and fingers crossed, I’ve got at least two more in me to enjoy before I get a small live aboard motor cruiser to be able to stay afloat in a boat There’s a Polish Yard that makes nice ones, but only Single Diesel inboards at the moment, so for the Caribbean etc, I need a backup inboard Diesel. Have a Wonderful 2024 Everyone.Bob.👍🌟🌟🌟❤️
More solar + electric motors.
is it important for a cat to have a carbon mast?
Depends. For a boat like this it will make no difference whatsoever since it's already so heavy. On a 10-12 ton performance catamaran it does shave off some weight and translate into higher speeds.
I see it as bling. If a customer is going to spend several million on a yacht like this what's a little more for the carbon rig option? On a smaller yacht, however, it could make a significant difference in rough seas due to the reduced weight up high having less momentum, so less pitching which could also yield better performance numbers. On this yacht at 66 tons, no way will it help in that respect. Since carbon is also a lightning magnet, it might just be better to retain the aluminum mast and save a few bucks to be spent on accessories, IMHO.
Yuck, the sailing version of a cruise ship. No thanks.
agree
Well said
what would you prefer?
ive run out of ideas... oh wait let's put a couch there
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Lots of sharp edges.
Er, why ?
Owners asked for it.
access servicing those engine is a problem !!!!well if one likes to work on their bellies in thigh area and those engine are down in a pit wow on a yacht like that it should of been walk around like i have seen on other cat that where smaller and on the main floor not in a pit
Nice to see another manufacturer make a large cat. But it just looks like a cheap plasticy boat. Sure, it’s clean inside but doesn’t really have much character.
Balance 750 would just smoke this on every level and still enough room to enjoy all the luxury.
giant rental boat
Ugh Catamarans really Hate me, try as I might to get along with the things since the Prout Catamaran days, rhat Bucking Bronco Corkscrew motion really does my head in . 😢Bob. Happy New Monohull 2024 to everyone . ❤
Two things early in the video struck me. The first is the shore power cord. What a STUPID place to be in a cockpit seat. So bad they ran it under the swim platform. Guess not a big deal if you are a charter guest but wow.
Next was the location of the filters. In spite of the narration what a wretched place. Changing anything when the engine is hot will be precarious at best.
Overall, I think the yacht is designed for instagram wanna be crowd.
Are you sober this time ?
I’d rather spend an extra $4M on a Swan 78.
Bad lighting.
Perso je n'aime pas du tout ce genre de catamaran, trop gros, trop lourd, trop haut, trop tout ...
Est ce encore un voilier ? Un bateau à voile fait pour naviguer avec le vent ?
J'en doute fort ...
C'est exactement pour cela que je n'aime pas ce genre de catamaran.
Il y a un marché, FP propose sa réponse.
Mais pour un prix sans doute similaire, allez donc voir chez GunBoat, plus beau, plus léger, plus rapide, plus véloce ... plus tout ! ...
Very poor engine access for such a large cat disaster
As normal very poor crew accommodation, why to they treat crew like slaves accommodation dreadfull situation I would have gally up and convert into better crew accommodation below.
Layout could be a lot better
Why do you need twin wheels waste of space and money.
awful...chuck money at a project and get this sort of thing
Wow !
HAHAHHAAHA never will buy it ... tHE DESIGN IS TERIBLE
absolutelly radicules quality ....