By: Philippe Echelle. The test of the Lagoon 400 allowed us to appreciate a comfortable, agile catamaran, more playful than its predecessors. The renewal of the range today concerns the Lagoon 450 and Lagoon 560, presented at the autumn Boat Shows, and seems to be inspired by the same values. I invite you to a [...]

By Herb McCormick Refreshingly, Jeanneau is so up front about the capabilities of their newest Lagoon cat that they’ve initialed them in the boat’s title. The “three Cs” of the Lagoon 35 CCC stand, without fanfare, for Coastal Cruising Catamaran. Racing to Bermuda? Look elsewhere. Surprisingly, the boat was created by Gino Morrelli and Pete [...]

By Quentin Warren When French mega-builder Jeanneau announced in November of 1990 that it would embark on a joint production venture with TPI in Warren, Rhode Island,to manufacture Lagoon cruising catamarans, multihull enthusiasts and the industry at large took sharp notice. The Lagoon series cat, at the time formidably represented by an ultrasleek 55-footer already [...]

By Bernard Lelievre In 1999, the dynamic team from “Lagoon” has certainly kept busy. Since the Beneteau group took over the Jeanneau – JTA Shipyard, Lagoon has moved to the Bordeaux to join the group’s CNB department and pursued the renewal of its range by offering in one year two new models – the 380 [...]

By Geoff Middleton For interior space, easy sailing and a shallow draft, nothing can beat a catamaran, and Beneteau’s Lagoon 380 does all that and more in a stylish and affordable package, writes Geoff Middleton. A CAT above the rest The popularity of catamarans is growing. Once, the choice of only a select few private [...]

By Philippe Echelle With the 380, Lagoon reinvented the culture of space aboard medium-sized catamarans; this model was world champion in its category in production (600 boats), but its performance under sail lacked a little punch. The 400 has arrived in the middle of a crisis, and sent its two predecessors, the 380 and the [...]

By Philippe Echelle We conducted our test of the new version of the lagoon 410 in the first days of september. the convoy from hyères to the cannes boat show at this time of the year usually requires having the accessories to deal with lull: gennaker and light sheets! The unexpected swelling of a major [...]

Whether you are going cruising for a few days or a few years, if you want everything to go well, your choice of boat is very important so, before you choose your catamaran, here’s a survey which will help you choose the right one! When the Lagoon 410 came out, we all discovered that we [...]

By Alain Jégou For the multihull Grand Prix of La Trinité-sur-Mer, Didier Gainette, a member of Olivier de Kersauson’s crew in the record-breaking sail round the world, showed us Jeanneau NewCo’s new catamaran. The Lagoon 410 is the first in a new series, with the Lagoon 470 to be presented in a preview at the [...]

by George Day Combines great liveaboard with modern sailing and powering systems. This innovative cruising cat combines great liveaboard accommodations with thoroughly modern sailing and powering systems. We set off from Miami’s Bayside Marina in the midst of the Strictly Sail Miami boat show and motored south to the broad shallow expanses of Biscayne Bay. [...]

By BWS Staff Lagoon Catamarans, a member of the giant Group Beneteau, has become one of the world’s leading catamaran builders. The company has built hundreds of boats for charter fleets around the world and even more for cruisers looking for solid, well-built cruising boats that are never short on quality or innovative design characteristics. [...]

By Philippe Echelle Not content with offering the first production hybrid propulsion system in the world, the Lagoon 420 is also a catamaran which is incredibly easy to get on with. this successor to the 410 in the range, with its ‘pumped up’ accommodation, offers incredible and unusual liveability for a 42-foot catamaran… THE BATTLE [...]

By Allan Whiting Hybrid powerplants are all the rage among environmentally conscious motorists, but a sailing boat such as the Lagoon 420 Hybrid actually makes a better environmental and economy platform than a car, reckons Allan Whiting. Silent partners The new 2008-model 12.6-metre Lagoon 420 looks the same externally as its predecessor, only the interior [...]

By Jeremy McGeary By introducing the Lagoon 420 Hybrid, the first series-produced sailboat with diesel-electric drives as standard equipment, Lagoon Catamarans makes a bold statement about its view of the future of sailboat auxiliary propulsion. A generator in a compartment at bridgedeck level meets all of the electrical needs—both propulsion and DC house service. No [...]

By Philippe Echelle Paris Boat SHow 2000: Lagoon shipyard presents their Trawler project, the Power 43. One year later, the shipyards motor catamaran is presented to the public. A few days after the end of the Show, we test the capacities of this much awaited boat.. To read complete story – click here for Lagoon [...]

By Gilles Ruffet Take the flying bridge, which is an innovation on any boat less than 45 ft long. add a ‘gull’s wing’ shape to the underside of the bridge deck. mix in enough volume for really comfortable accommodation, a different way of arranging the external living space and decent performance for a cruising boat, [...]

By George Day One of the most popular crusing cats in the world. If you have ever sailed on a cruising catamaran, the first time may well have been aboard a charter cat in the Caribbean. There is no doubt, cruising cats have come to dominate the charter fleets and for good reason. Cats are [...]

By Multihulls World CAN WE LEGITIMATELY CONTRAST A MOTOR CATAMARAN AND A SAILING CATAMARAN? At first view, everything about them is opposed, from the means of propulsion to the cruising philosophy. And yet, for a week or a year’s trip in the West Indies, for example, the choice is not so obvious ! A small [...]

By Ralph Naranjo Designers Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot Prévost took the strengths and weaknesses of the older Lagoon 47 and created a multifaceted multihull, ready to play the role of a liveaboard, charter boat, or long-distance cruiser. The transition from the Lagoon 47 to the Lagoon 470 entailed a major hull and deck [...]

By Laurent Fournier With the 500, Lagoon unveils a bit more of its range of third-generation multihulls, which started with the 440. These voluminous catamarans offer an incredible amount of space and well above average performance… As the owner of a lively 28-foot trimaran, which performs well on all points of sailing, my first glimpse [...]

By Jeremy McGeary Catamarans have been around long enough that their sheer size and the vast expanses of living quarters they provide should no longer surprise us the way they once did. Yet still they do, especially when a builder incorporates a design wrinkle that adds yet more living and working space. Lagoon Catamarans introduced [...]

By Philippe Echelle A good Bordeaux vintage for sailing over long distances. The 570 is one of the two novelties from Lagoon at the Paris Boat Show along with the brand new motor catamaran, for more information on this new model we cast off for a convoy onboard… To read complete story – click here [...]

By Tim Murphy Fifty-six feet long by 30 feet wide: Last fall off Tolly Point on the Chesapeake, we sailed hull number four of Lagoon’s new 570 catamaran—1,680 square feet of resin-infused fiberglass smoking along at just under 10 knots. The Lagoon 570 is the latest from the French builder that in 1984 formed as [...]

By Philippe Echelle After the 67’ (a custom model), the 620 is the biggest catamaran built by Lagoon. When it was presented, it was one of the main curiosities at the last Cannes Boat Show; it must be said that this ‘cinemascope’ version is very impressive! AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT With the Lagoon research and development [...]

By Jeremy McGeary At 62 feet, the volume even in a catamaran’s narrow hulls begins to get significant, and Lagoon cuts it up a number of ways in the Lagoon 620 to offer arrangements with as many as five double cabins or as few as three. All of them provide island beds and their own [...]