Fountaine-Pajot
Fountaine-Pajot is a major French maritime construction company specialising in catamarans both for private leisure, cruising and offshore chartering. The company was founded in 1976 by Jean François Fountaine and Yves Pajot, in the town of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis, in Charente-Maritime. It also now has a factory at La Rochelle.
The Fontaine-Pajot business
Fontaine-Pajot has become a world renowned cruising catamaran manufacturer. The company started on an industrial estate in Aigrefeuille d'Aunis, and today is the town's largest employer, with some 250 employees; the group as a whole having about 430.The company started to make public transport catamarans in 1983. Since then, the company has built 21 models and delivered 1,668 catamarans.
Nowadays the company makes between 150 and 180 catamarans a year, both sail and power craft.
In 2018, the company bought Dufour Yachts, a manufacturer of monohull sailing vessels.
Innovation
Seeking to keep abreast of the competition, the company has a research and development department which aims to develop new processes and designs. Fountaine-Pajot developed a new process of making boat hulls by injection moulding.Fontaine-Pajot made the catamarans for the experimental water taxi service along the River Seine, the Voguéo.
Models
less than 40 feet
- Corneel 26
- Maldives 32
- Greenland 34
- Tobago 35
- Highland 35
- Mahe 36
- Louisiane 37
- Antigua 37
- Athena 38
- Fidji 39
40 feet
- Casamance 43
- Venezia 42
- Bahia 46
- Belize 43
- Lavezzi 40
- Cumberland 44
- Summerland 40
- Lipari 41
- Orana 44
- Salina 48
- Helia 44
- Cumberland 47
- Lucia 40
- Saona 47
- Isla 40
- Astrea 42
- Elba 45
- Tanna 47
50 feet
60 feet or more
- Eleuthera 60
- Galathea 65
- Victoria 67
- Taiti 80
- Alegria 67