MAGIC MOMENTS 3 is a Fountaine Pajot Thira 80, the French yard’s flagship sailing catamaran and one of the most complete charter platforms afloat at this size. The appeal is simple: the stability, volume and flat deck space of a far larger yacht, carried on a sailing multihull that still slips quietly into a shallow bay. At twenty-four metres with a beam close to eleven, she turns her width into living space, and the result is a yacht that sleeps ten in genuine comfort.
Her signature is the foredeck. Where most catamarans leave the bow to trampolines, the Thira 80 sets a sunken pool and sunpad terrace forward, a private sun deck above the water that becomes the social heart of the day. Aft, the cockpit flows straight off the main salon through full-width glass doors, so lunch, lounging and the sea all share one level. There is no real step between inside and out, and the whole main deck reads as a single, bright, flowing space.
Inside, the salon is arranged for a crowd without ever feeling crowded. A large lounge sits alongside a proper dining area and an open galley, glazed on every side so the light and the view carry right through. The palette is pale and natural, oak, linen and soft neutrals, the restrained, contemporary Fountaine Pajot look that lets the setting do the work.
Accommodation runs to five cabins for ten guests, set low in the hulls where the motion is gentlest. The owner’s cabin takes the premium space with its own light and en suite, while the further doubles and the VIP are finished to the same standard, each quiet and private below the busy main deck. A crew of four lives and works aboard without ever crowding the guest areas, a balance the Thira 80 layout handles with ease.
Under sail she is calm and forgiving, trimmed for comfort rather than speed, with a shallow draft that opens up the anchorages a monohull of her volume could never reach. She carries a full program of watersports toys and a tender for exploring, so a quiet bay becomes a long afternoon in the water. Her natural territory is the eastern Caribbean, from the British and US Virgin Islands down through the Leeward and Windward chains, where short, warm passages between islands suit a catamaran built for this kind of cruising.
The experience on board is built around easy movement between sea, deck and sky. Guests drift from the foredeck pool to the shaded cockpit to the water itself without ever feeling they have to plan the day, and the layout quietly keeps the social spaces and the quiet ones from getting in each other’s way.
What makes MAGIC MOMENTS 3 work is balance. She offers the space and the toys of a motor yacht, the calm and the reach of sail, and a layout that keeps a party of ten comfortable without anyone feeling on top of anyone else. For a family or a group of friends who want the whole experience, sun, sea, sail and space, in one of the world’s great cruising grounds, she is about as complete as a charter catamaran gets.
