Fountaine Pajot Samana 59 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Fountaine Pajot Samana 59 means weighing a 2020-onward flagship catamaran built as the builder’s first sailing cruiser with a flybridge. These are large boats — 18.78 meters overall, 9.46 beam, 1.65-meter draft — and the used fleet splits between charter four-cabin layouts and private configurations, with ex-charter examples common on the market. Knowing what is normally fitted versus what was an owner’s whim separates a fair inspection from a misread one.
Layouts on the Used Market
Charter four-cabin layouts are the more common on the used market, but both are available. The Lounge Maestro version carries one owner’s suite, two double cabins, a bunk-bed cabin, three bathrooms, and two skipper cabins, with dual access to the owners’ cabins from saloon and aft. A galley-down Maestro places the galley in the center of three port-hull staterooms. The builder’s two-galley scheme — central-island social galley and a tucked-away crew galley — appears across the range, and the forward starboard saloon nav station is a Maestro feature. Expect ex-charter boats to show higher cycle counts on the hydraulic swim platform and electric winches than privately used sisters.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
On the used market, watermaker, chartplotter, inverter, radar, life raft, solar, and autopilot are commonly fitted. Air conditioning, AIS, bow thruster, swim platform, gennaker, electric winches, washing machine, and cockpit shower are often seen. Less commonly, as owner upgrades, are bimini, freezer, dinghy davits, teak decks, lithium batteries, hot water, Starlink, hardtop, and asymmetric spinnaker. The ODSea+ hybrid pack — 2x50 kW motors, 2x24 kW generators, 118 kWh battery, hydrogeneration, 18 kW inverter — is a factory option rather than a typical aftermarket add. Electric Antal winches and a mastfoot helm consolidating manoeuvres are standard design points, not upgrades electric Antal winches.
What to Inspect
The documented record on the Samana 59 discloses no defect conditions, known flooding paths, or structural weaknesses; the available material describes resin-infused balsa-cored hulls, injection-molded decks, tabbed cored bulkheads, and aluminum plates in the laminate for hardware resin-infused and balsa-cored. Because no safety-relevant issue is identified, inspection should follow normal catamaran survey: hull-core sounding, bulkhead-tab integrity, and confirmation that aluminum-plated hardware mounts are not cracked or corroded at the tap. No documented drainage or flooding path is named for this model.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
Typical markets for the Samana 59 are France, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye, Italy, and Thailand. For a buyer, the takeaway is a short field checklist: confirm layout — charter four-cabin or Maestro — and ex-charter history; verify commonly fitted systems (watermaker, chartplotter, inverter, radar, life raft, solar, autopilot) are operational; note often-seen gear (air conditioning, bow thruster, electric winches, swim platform) for wear; treat lithium, hardtop, and Starlink as owner upgrades rather than standard; and survey hull core and bulkhead tabs with no identified known issue to excuse omission.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Fountaine Pajot Samana 59. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 15 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25 | 1 | $ 2,849,309 | — |
| Apr 25 | 2 | $ 2,625,598 | -7.9% |
| May 25 | 1 | $ 2,494,576 | -5.0% |
| Jun 25 | 1 | $ 3,089,612 | +23.9% |
| Aug 25 | 3 | $ 3,025,741 | -2.1% |
| Sep 25 | 4 | $ 2,528,905 | -16.4% |
| Oct 25 | 3 | $ 2,551,791 | +0.9% |
| Nov 25 | 3 | $ 2,860,752 | +12.1% |
| Dec 25 | 2 | $ 2,803,537 | -2.0% |
| Jan 26 | 7 | $ 2,588,379 | -7.7% |
| Mar 26 | 2 | $ 2,386,586 | -7.8% |
| Apr 26 | 19 | $ 2,568,960 | +7.6% |
| May 26 | 3 | $ 2,472,863 | -3.7% |
| Jun 26 | 3 | $ 2,088,233 | -15.6% |
| Jul 26 | 7 | $ 3,089,612 | +48.0% |
Where they're listed
Fountaine Pajot Samana 59 listings appear across 13 countries. Portugal has the most listings with 17 (30.4%), followed by Greece and Turkey.
Country view
56 listings · 13 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | $ 2,851,250 | 17 | 6 | 30.4% |
| Greece | $ 2,519,977 | 12 | 3 | 21.4% |
| Turkey | $ 3,120,146 | 4 | 3 | 7.1% |
| Spain | $ 3,089,612 | 3 | 3 | 5.4% |
| France | $ 3,051,798 | 3 | 0 | 5.4% |
| Italy | $ 1,355,626 | 3 | 1 | 5.4% |
| Thailand | $ 2,517,462 | 3 | 1 | 5.4% |
| British Virgin Islands | $ 2,599,000 | 3 | 1 | 5.4% |
| Hong Kong | $ 3,087,316 | 2 | 2 | 3.6% |
| French Polynesia | $ 2,741,665 | 2 | 1 | 3.6% |
| United States | $ 3,025,741 | 2 | 0 | 3.6% |
| Singapore | $ 1,900,000 | 1 | 1 | 1.8% |
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