FORTUNA

Built to the Fountaine Pajot brief for a performance cruising catamaran, this yacht sails the way the label suggests: light on the helm, quick to find her stride, and genuinely rewarding when the Meltemi fills in across the Aegean. She is a sailing catamaran first — not a motor yacht with masts — and that shows in the way she covers ground between islands without asking anything dramatic of her guests. Greece is her cruising ground, and few platforms suit it better. The wide beam of a catamaran means shallow draft for those Cycladic bays where monohulls have to anchor further out, level decks under way, and an easy stability at anchor that makes long lunches and swim stops the natural rhythm of the day rather than an exercise in balance. Accommodation is arranged over four cabins, each with a double bed, welcoming up to ten guests aboard. The layout gives couples and families their own quarters at opposite ends of the yacht — one of the quiet structural advantages of a catamaran, where hulls create real separation rather than partitioned corridors. Her crew handles the sailing, the provisioning and the daily itinerary, adjusting the route to the wind and to what the guests actually feel like doing — which, in this part of the Mediterranean, is usually the difference between a good week and a memorable one.