Fountaine Pajot Power 80 wins Yacht Style Award for large catamarans

Fountaine Pajot Motor Yachts has turned its flagship Power 80 into more than a showcase boat. By taking the Power Catamaran Above 20m award at the 2026 Yacht Style Awards in Singapore, the brand has a fresh, public marker that its large-power-cat strategy is landing where it matters most: among buyers who judge a multihull on design, livability and autonomy as much as speed.

The award was announced at ONE°15 Marina Sentosa Cove on April 22, on the eve of the Singapore Yachting Festival, in a ceremony that gathered around 300 guests from across Asia and beyond. Across 35 categories, the Yacht Style Awards weighed innovation, design, build quality, environmental responsibility, owner experience, personal achievements and a clear focus on the Asia market. For most yacht classes, eligibility required a world premiere at a major show after the 2025 Singapore Yachting Festival, which puts the Power 80’s recognition in a tightly defined field.

That matters because the Power 80 is not being positioned as a simple stretch job from a smaller platform. Fountaine Pajot says the yacht is based on the Thíra 80, but reengineered for engines up to 900 hp and improved hydrodynamic efficiency. Charter-market material lists the Power 80 at 23.99m, with a 1.5m draft and completion in 2025, while a yacht-spec source puts top performance at roughly 20 to 21 knots. In other words, the boat is being sold as a serious large powercat, not a floating compromise between speed and volume.

The layout language is just as important as the numbers. Fountaine Pajot describes the Power 80 as its flagship powercat, with cockpit, saloon and flybridge flowing together in a way that makes the yacht feel closer to a luxury residence than a conventional powerboat. Solar panels are integrated into the flybridge to support greater autonomy, and the foredeck is treated as usable living space rather than dead area. That emphasis on calm movement and onboard rhythm is the real story behind the award: Fountaine Pajot is not only chasing horsepower, it is defining how a large catamaran should live at sea.

The Power 80 also sits inside a broader design arc for the French yard. The Thíra 80 was unveiled at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2023 as the company’s largest and most luxurious catamaran to date, with marketing that highlighted semi-transparent solar panels and fold-down side wings that create a sea-view terrace. With the Power 80 now award-validated in Singapore, Fountaine Pajot has a stronger claim in the upper end of the multihull market, where the real competition is no longer novelty, but who can deliver the most convincing mix of range, comfort and lifestyle.