A 2 500-mile delivery trip!
The first Power 67 was delivered to her owner in Athens, Greece, back in the summer. She set out from La Rochelle, on France’s Atlantic coast, with more than 2,500 miles to cover and only one scheduled stopover in Gibraltar, for refueling and engine checks on the new Volvo engines.
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And once she’d arrived in Greece, manufacturer Fountaine Pajot organized a photo shoot of their new powercat: here’s the story of this delivery trip and exclusive pictures. “We set out from La Rochelle with a well-established northeasterly wind, averaging 25 to 35 knots with a sea that was building as we started to clear the shelter of the coast. The catamaran behaved wonderfully well, the autopilot managing the quartering seas without any worries. At low revs, we quickly reached a cruising speed of 9 knots to achieve derisory fuel consumption. We had set ourselves a goal of minimum 200 miles …
