Details

  • Year: 2016

  • Make: Fountaine Pajot

  • Model: Mahé 36

  • Hull #: FPA17175G516

  • Length: 36 feet, plus a 4-foot removable bowsprit

  • Beam: 19.5 feet

  • Draft: 3.75 feet

  • 3 cabins/1 head (or 2 cabins/2 heads)

    • She was built with 2 cabins and 2 heads, but we converted one of the heads into a cabin. The infrastructure is there to convert the third cabin back into a head, if desired.

  • Two Volvo D1-30 (30 hp) engines with saildrives

    • Starboard engine was replaced in 2021 by the previous owner, with a low-hours used engine - has about 3,000 hours on it

    • Port engine is the original stock engine, but it needs to be replaced due to low compression

  • Garmin instruments (two chart plotters, AIS, radar, auto-pilot, engine displays, wind instruments, VHF)

  • 2020 Highfield Dinghy w/2020 Yamaha 20hp 4-stroke outboard, only one year of regular use

  • All sails, batteries and a bunch of other equipment were replaced or added in 2021-2022 (listed below)

Recent Upgrades

*Done 2021-2022 - minimal use since completed, in storage last couple years

Sails and rigging

  • Replaced all sails (~$17,000): new Doyle composite square-top mainsail with stack pack, genoa, spinnaker and lazy jacks - only sailed with the new sails twice, and the spinnaker hasn't been used yet, so they’re all virtually new

  • Replaced all running rigging with Dyneema lines

  • Replaced the mainsail track with a teflon-coated track and new rollers

  • Converted to a single-line reefing system for the main, and added a third reef

  • Added a bowsprit and a halyard for a screecher (we haven’t purchased a screecher yet - there’s also a spinnaker halyard)

  • Set up for single-handing, with all lines coming to the helm

Powertrain

  • Replaced stock fuel filter housings with Racor housings

  • Replaced both engines’ alternators

  • Replaced both engines’ black boxes (ECMs/Engine Control Modules) ($2,000)

  • Added Ambassador Marine Rope Strippers to the props ($1200)

Hull and deck

  • Painted the hulls gray ($12,000)

  • Replaced the stock steel lifelines with Dyneema

  • Canvas

    • Replaced the bimini cover and added a full helm enclosure

    • Replaced all the cockpit cushions

    • Matched them all to the stack pack with gray Sunbrella

  • Replaced the anchor with a Spade brand anchor ($900)

Electrical

  • Added a 48-volt Mastervolt lithium battery bank, in preparation for installing OceanVolt electric motors, and to feed the house bank ($20,000)

  • New 12-volt AGM battery house bank, with all the converters, controllers, new wiring, etc. 

  • Replaced all bilge pumps and added an extra in each hull

Electronics

New Equipment (~$30,000):

  • Garmin Radar

  • Garmin AIS 800 transceiver

  • GPSMAP 8616xsv 16" chart plotter and NavPod at the helm (also has the stock Garmin chart plotter at the nav station)

  • Garmin Wireless Masthead Wind Indicator

  • Garmin VHF with mics/speakers at the nav station and helm

  • Replaced all but one of the Garmin auto-pilot components

  • Onboard wi-fi network

  • Cell & wi-fi extenders added to the mast

  • Iridium GO w/YB3i tracker

  • EPIRB

Dinghy

Equipment purchased but not yet installed

(Selling separately but could work into a deal)

  • Atlantic Towers Super Sail Arch "Tower In A Box" ($7,000 new) - we bought this arch to replace the existing davits (to get the dinghy further off the water, for offshore), to mount rigid solar panels on, and for kayak/paddle board storage - note that last year I removed the bubble wrap from the arch and noticed that it has a partially broken weld in one spot - not sure if that was a factory defect or happened during shipping, but it should be a quick and inexpensive fix

  • 9 Solara Power M Series (S 460M35) walk-on, flex solar panels ($11,000 new) ready to install on the coachroof

  • Seawater Pro water maker ($4,200 new)

  • New water heater - note that it was discounted because it has a crack in the plastic housing

Our Vendors

  • Derek Rupe (CEO, Ocean Volt USA, New London, CT) - designed the new electrical system, installed the battery banks and did some other electrical upgrades - talk to him if you’re interested in proceeding with the OceanVolt electric motor upgrades that we were preparing for - and check out his guest appearances on Sailing La Vagabonde’s YouTube channel during the building of La Vagabonde III

  • Todd Johnston (Doyle Sails, East Greenwich, RI) - built the new sails

  • Mike Brady (Newport Rigging Group, New England Boatworks, RI) - did all the rigging

  • RC Marine Electric (Middletown, RI) - installed the radar, new antennas and instruments