The sailing range — 38 to 82 feet, three to six cabins, built for passages a couple can actually make
The question that decides this line is not how fast you get there. It is whether the people aboard still want to be aboard on day nine. Lagoon's sailing catamarans are drawn around that: level decks instead of a heeling monohull, cabins in two hulls so nobody is sleeping in a corridor, and rigs sized so two people can shorten sail without waking the rest of the boat.
The line runs from the 38, which a couple can own and handle without help, to the Eighty 2 flagship with crew quarters. What stays constant across it is the hull work by VPLP Design and interiors by Nauta Design, so the boats feel like relatives rather than a catalogue.
Every Lagoon Sailing Catamarans model we review in depth, in the order owners step up through the series.
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Two people can sail her without help: the self-tacking jib works from the helm, and a 3'10" draft opens anchorages deeper boats have to skip.
A limited four-cabin edition of the Lagoon 42 — the same hull more than 1,000 owners have taken offshore, with the layout question already settled.
A second entryway in each hull, and 166 gallons of fresh water aboard — roughly double what the smaller Lagoons carry, so you can stay out longer.
Restyled inside and out: a forward sun-pad lounge, a bow swim ladder, and a furling boom whose mechanism stays visible. Twin 57 HP Yanmar diesels.
Lagoon's newest mid-size cruiser, on a VPLP-drawn hull, with a 12 m² forward cockpit that opens straight into the saloon through its own door.
Twin 80 HP Yanmar diesels, a 549 sq ft genoa, and a flybridge reached by two separate accesses — so the crowd upstairs never blocks the helm.
The six-cabin edition of the Lagoon 55: six cabins of equal size, each with its own head, and an extra-large central galley built to feed twelve aboard.
Naval architecture by VPLP Design, with a vast forward cockpit flush with the saloon floor and reached through its own saloon door.
The boat that opens Lagoon's Premium line: 272 m² of upwind sail area, a fully equipped flybridge helm, and four-, five- or six-cabin layouts.
Drawn by VPLP Design and setting 335 m² of upwind sail area, with four to six cabins plus separate crew quarters.
Lagoon's sailing flagship: roughly 338 m² of upwind sail area beneath a flybridge of more than 50 m² with twin helms.
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Most owners do not step through this range one model at a time — they step when the trip changes. The 38, 42 Millenium and 43 are the boats for a couple who take guests occasionally and want to keep the whole operation two-handed. The 46 Iconic, 47 and 51 Iconic are the heart of the line: enough cabins to take family for a season, still short-handed under sail.
Above that the decision changes character. The 55 Millenium, 60 and Sixty 5 start to assume you will sometimes have help aboard, and the Seventy 7 and Eighty 2 assume it outright with dedicated crew quarters. The honest test is not length. It is whether you want to run the boat yourself or run the trip while someone else runs the boat.
The middle of this line is where the value sits, and it is not close.
A 46 Iconic or a 51 Iconic does almost everything the buyer of a 60 imagines doing, with a rig two people can still manage on a bad night and a draft that gets you into anchorages the bigger boats look at from outside. I have watched a lot of buyers stretch to the next size up and then quietly discover that the extra cabins mostly carry luggage.
Go bigger when the crew is real and the passages are long. Stay in the middle when the boat is yours to run.
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From 3'10" (1.17 m) on the 38 to 6'3" (1.90 m) on the Seventy 7 and Eighty 2 — and it does not rise steadily with length. The 47 draws 4'1" (1.25 m), less than both the shorter 43 at 4'4" (1.31 m) and the 46 Iconic at 4'6" (1.37 m).
The rest of the range: the 42 Millenium at 4'2" (1.26 m), the 51 Iconic at 4'7" (1.40 m), the 55 Millenium at 5'1" (1.55 m), the Sixty 5 at 5'3" (1.60 m) and the 60 at 5'5" (1.65 m).
If shoal water is your reason for going multihull, check draft model by model rather than assuming the shorter boat draws less.
No. The Seventy 7 is a heritage model — Lagoon has moved it out of the current sailing lineup, and the Eighty 2 now sits at the top of the range. That makes it a brokerage purchase rather than a new-build order, and we handle it as one.
The two boats are close on paper: 78'2" (23.84 m) against 81'9" (24.97 m), the same 36'1" (11.00 m) beam and the same 6'3" (1.90 m) draft, both quoted 4-6 Cabins / 4-6 Heads + Crew. The difference is under the floor — Twin Volvo D4-175 (2 x 175 HP) on the Seventy 7 against Twin John Deere N5-230 (2 x 230 HP) on the Eighty 2.
If you want this size of Lagoon and would rather buy a proven hull than wait on a build slot, the Seventy 7 is the one to look at.
Eleven, from 43'1" (13.12 m) to 81'9" (24.97 m). In order: the 38, 42 Millenium, 43, 46 Iconic, 47, 51 Iconic, 55 Millenium, 60, Sixty 5, Seventy 7 and Eighty 2.
The break point sits around the Sixty 5. Below it the boats are specified for owner-operators with no crew accommodation listed; at the Seventy 7 and Eighty 2 the heads are quoted "+ Crew". Note also that the Seventy 7 is a heritage model rather than current production — Lagoon has moved it out of the lineup and the Eighty 2 now tops the range — so it comes to you as a brokerage boat.
The 38, 42 Millenium, 46 Iconic and 55 Millenium. The 43, 51 Iconic, 60 and Sixty 5 carry a furling genoa instead.
This is the one rig decision that changes daily life aboard. A self-tacker turns a tack into a single motion at the wheel — nothing to grind, nobody sent forward in the dark — which is why the smaller Lagoons are genuinely two-person boats. A genoa gives you more drive and better shape control, and costs you a sheet to handle on every tack.
If your cruising ground has you beating up a buoyed channel twice a day, the self-tacker wins. On long ocean reaches you will barely notice the difference.
Tell us how you plan to use the boat — guests, range, crew or no crew — and we'll give you the straight story on where in the Sailing Catamarans series you belong, new or brokerage.
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