By Steve Callahan. The latest cruising cat from Fountaine Pajot has both speed and style to burn. A review from our June 2010 issue by Steve Callahan. The Lipari 41 from Fountaine Pajot could be characterized as a typical cruising cat for its size. It has spacious accommodations, relatively high freeboard, a raised saloon with excellent visibility, and comes with a choice of layouts. And like similar cruising cats, it may not sail to weather like a narrow monohull, but off the wind, it’ll leave all but full-bore racing monohulls in the dust. The Lipari also follows some of the newest design trends in cruising cats. It has significant headroom below and essential bridgedeck clearance that comes at the cost of increased windage. It’s also available in a three-or four-cabin configuration, with the three-cabin layout dedicating the entire starboard hull to the owner’s digs. Also, instead of the canvas bimini raised above the saloon’s coach roof that you’ll find on older cats, the Lipari follows the trend of simply extending the saloon coach roof over what could be called the cockpit but might more accurately be termed the “exterior lounge area.” You lose the “pillbox slit” between coach roof and bimini that’s found on older cats and retain visibility forward through the saloon windows and through the hatch in the roof for the raised helm station. The large cockpit roof also provides a solid and unbroken platform on which the crew can handle the mainsail and mount solar panels. The helm station centralizes the running rigging and provides seamless access to the deck as well as sightlines to the boat’s perimeter, or at least most of it. To read complete story – click here for Lipari 41: A French Performer full story on Cruising World website