In our review published in 1989 - this article is unfortunately only available in French - we titled it “The Fidji”. At the time, this 39-foot (12 m) catamaran, that had just been integrated into Fountaine Pajot’s 2nd generation range, i.e., the Maldives generation, really shook things up! However, this model was later to become the Fidji 39 when the range really began expanding in the early 1990s, is not a far-fetched machine at all, quite the contrary!
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With its reduced freeboard, rounded hull sections and saucer-shaped coachroof, the Fidji 39 is the representative of another era, when people wanted to design fast hulls that didn’t need too much canvas. A time when the coachroof cap and biminis did not exist... Sailors were obviously suffering in the heat under the tropical doldrums, and most owners installed fabric biminis during their first season on board (a feature that was obviously proposed later by the builder) and various means of keeping the saloon cool. We’ll come back to this later. Very innovative compared to its competitors of th…
