A few changes to the boat

Recently I had a day of work due to having a full blown cold, which was doing the rounds at work, I don’t often take time of work being self employed. I had been in bed from the early hours and I was wide awake by 3.30 in the morning. A copy of Multihull review had been delivered the day before, a British magazine, which is specific to multihull boats.

One of the articles was about the Southampton boat show and the La Rochelle boat show, both of which were on at the same time. The article goes on to explain about an offer running at the show from Fountaine Pajot, due to the fact that Lagoon had also come up with a boat show deal on it’s 380 S2 range making it very competitive against the Mahe. Fountaine Pajot’s reaction to this, which is said to be unheard of, was to create a boat show package to compete with the offer from Lagoon.

Back in June when we placed our order for the boat, we were willing to wait and see if any offers did actually come out at the boat shows. Carl from M.I. Cats clearly explained to us that Fountaine Pajot have never before created a boat show package, therefore there no reason to wait for the boat show. So, we paid out 10 percent deposit on the understanding that should there be a boat show deal that we would be eligible for the offer.

After reading the article, I was soon in contact with Karen from M.I. Cats to try and get further information. Karen confirmed that there had been a show offer which started only at the end of the Southampton Boat Show.

The offer was the Mahe with additional extras thrown in for free…!

The additional extras are:

Additional Water Tank
Lazy Bag
Folding Props
Bimini Top
Dinghy Davits
Holding Tank
2.7m Dinghy
6hp Outboard
Antifouling
E-pack 1 (Instruments, GPS, VHF)

After a couple of conversations with Karen, it was soon established that we could take up the boat offer if we wanted it.

Now then, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out what the answer was.

Basically, it is 20,236.00 Euros of additional equipment, we would have to waver our previously agreed discount of 5 thousand Euros and accept the boat show price of 176 thousand Euros for the package, against the original price of 173 thousand Euros, 168 thousand with the discount.

We are both pleased with our new additions to the boat, some of the options are very nice but not a must have, now we have the best of both worlds.

The other options we are going to add to our list, to bring the boat up to our specification are:

220Volt System
1 x 12/220V 500W Inverter
Spifurl Bowsprit & Gear
2 additional Jammers next to current ones on the helm
Raymarine electronics as discussed with Didier at Pochon

Hopefully, Pochon will swap out the E-pack option for the equivalent Raymarine kit.

The above should now bring the boat up to a very high specification.

This month has gone really quickly for us both and it now feels as though we are on the home straight.

Won’t be long now…!