Aboard an aura of home comforts: why the Fountaine Pajot 51 is an appealing floating home

[@Muratshayev]

Interesting boat. Especially in the electrical version. Thanks for the consistently good review Toby ⚓

[@yachtingworld]

Thank you - and FP have also just unveiled a hydrogen powered version of its 59 too

[@Khatsalano]

Toby Hodges voiceovers for yachting are as iconic as Morgan Freeman narrations for any significant Hollywood production in the last 50 years.

[@fjb7380]

Love seeing the big cat tours - yes reality is performance is a small percentage of your days when it’s days cruising rather than hours racing…dreams for our family…one day

[@rtbinc2273]

I agree - too many square corners. Besides that very nice. Thanks Toby.

[@sailabsolutely]

Wonderful review! We’re sailing Absolutely, hull 28, a 6 cabin charter version, from La Rochelle to the BVI later this month. We got to see this boat, hull 2, a yr ago when we visited La Rochelle. Thanks for the review!

[@yachtingworld]

Thank you and good luck with your voyage!

[@jack7rem]

Doesn't look like FP has addressed the drainage problem with the top sun deck. In tropical downpours water overflows the small drain and cascades into the steering deck then into the outside living space just about where the outside drinks fridge is located. We encountered this on the SABA 50 and that area looks completely unchanged, designed for the Med not the tropics. Other than that small detail it's a beautiful thing.

[@sebastiankummer191]

Great tour great boat and really astonishing that they changed from Outremer 5x to FP51.

[@DNN88]

More comfort i guess? Look at those beds, shower, etc. Outremer 52 would be mine pick for sure if i had the money tho

[@vokstar]

That was my thinking too, but they did give a good justification, that you only spend 10% of your time sailing the rest at anchor so storage and comfort are a priority.

[@burddog0792]

FP is IMO the nicest of the big 3 production cats. Like seeing the hybrid/electric boats becoming more common. If FP did a performance line of cats similar to Lagoon/Excess it would be awesome.

[@robinhodgkinson]

You can’t round off veneer covered edges. Unless of course you introduce solid timber edges and corners, but that costs money… Like all production boats they’re built to a price. So either you pay more for your boat, or you lower your expectations. It’s a balancing act.

[@carlosvallejo4926]

I saw some videos about the aventura catamarans. Every edge is rounded. Try to watch “Naval Gazing at Camp David:Aventura 37”

[@britskaradiometeorograph8108]

It's a cat lol who cares. It's not gonna dump you into a table corner on heel

[@sstroh32]

@@britskaradiometeorograph8108 FYI Your comment makes you sound like someone who talks big online but has never sailed in anything bigger than a bathtub. Not saying that’s you… I’m sure you have 100k blue water miles under your keel. As you no doubt already know, heel is inconvenient but it’s not what sends your careening across an open floor plan cabin into a sharp edge table. Cats heave and surge, in many cases even more than monos, and they pitch about equally. That’s what tends to rapidly accelerate the pace with which you are approaching the table, or stairs, or insert any other non-rounded edge on a cat. When you factor in the large spaces between grab rails, passage making in a cat can produce just as many boat bruises as a mono.

[@eZorglub0001]

Just missing the front water tight door and it could have been my perfect Boat! Samana have no sport flybridge (visibility I guess). Maybe the next one 55 foot?

[@stippolyte]

My one big bugbear with a lot of modern boats, IKEA type furniture. I know it's cheaper and faster to build but sharp edges and corners are inherently dangerous on something that's constantly in motion, even moored (unless sea keeper etc fitted) and should be a definite no no.

[@TheSportsPROgram]

Having this boat is like having floating 5 star hotel everywhere you go ......

[@BonnieVolkle]

Thanks Toby

[@yachtingworld]

👍

[@steveobarnes]

Salty ol dog retired this palatial multi hull

[@tcurdt]

I guess "floating home" says it all. Just look at the non-existing bridge deck clearance and you know all you need to know.

[@JamesBrown-ux9ds]

Build to suit todays market demands - otherwise ... the brand will disappear. Interesting enough northern premium brands like Najad and others still seem to be able to sell their 44 foot monohulls for instance at about 3 to 4 times the price of a Bavaria in sufficient numbers to be able to survive.

[@Cinarli1979]

What happened to decent monohulls?

[@angela1984a]

Seem to be plenty of those in the previous vids on this channel...

[@MrJmdgh]

2023 multihull show at La Grande Motte just ended, plenty of boats to review!