[MHml] Fountaine Pajot

[Peter Gelinas]

I have been travelling for the last four weeks and am only now getting into 
my emails (all 545 of them) Unfortunately most of the Multihull post go to 
my spam filter and are automaticly deleted after a few days .. so I don't 
know if I understand the question / substance of this thread.... but ...

Re: tax boats
I have a Fountaine Pajot built in '93. No VAT or other taxes were levied at 
the time of purchase. It was sold to a Malta based company (owned by 
Frenchmen) and put into service as a charter vessel ("Moorings" in Turkey). 
It was sold 5 years later to its second owner who paid the VAT on the (used) 
selling price.  This would seem to indicate the tax free boats did not have 
to go to former french colonies .

Re: thickness of bulkheads?
I recently put in new nav instruments next to the helm. The fiberglass was 
solid, over 1/4 inch thick. It varied top to bottom (several instruments) 
from 5/16 to about 7/16 (0.9 - 1.2cm). The port bulkhead between the saloon 
and the cockpit has a cubby hole probably meant for books. Mine was cut out 
and enlarged to hold a small washing machine. Here the material is a 
honeycomb and about 3/4 inch thick (2 cm)

I hope the above is of assitance to the questions on the FP

Peter



>From: "Alan Christoffersen" <alan at insatech.com>
>Reply-To: Informed discussion of multihull issues 
><multihulls at steamradio.com>
>To: "'Informed discussion of multihull issues'" <multihulls at steamradio.com>
>Subject: Re: [MHml] Fountaine Pajot
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:28:35 +0200
>
>Yes "Tax boats" is the name given to the boats that were built for service
>in the former french colonies (now known as overseas territories), there 
>was
>some kind of a tax break for french people who invested in these
>territories, so alot of charter boats suddenly appeared, and I think after 
>5
>years you could take them over privately... I think this stopped aroun 
>1999,
>but there may be a frenchman on the list who could enlighten us??
>
>Cheers
>
>Alan
>
>-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>Fra: multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com
>[mailto:multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com] På vegne af Martin Schöön
>Sendt: 29. september 2006 09:21
>Til: Informed discussion of multihull issues
>Emne: Re: [MHml] Fountaine Pajot
>
>On 9/29/06, Mr. Fish <mrfish at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > bob jones wrote:
><snip>
> > > fall in the same range as a PDQ 36. I know these are early French
> > > "tax boats" and this is a 2 owner boat. Does anyone know anything
> > > about
><snip>
> > Having owned a French "Tax Boat" I really only have one thing of advice.
> >
>Tax boat?
>
>--
>Martin Schöön              "Problems worthy of attack
>                                          prove their worth by hitting 
>back"
>                                          Piet Hein
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