The Sixty 5 is where Lagoon stops building a bigger cruising catamaran and starts building a yacht. You feel it in the numbers Yacht Class published — around 90 square meters inside and 87 outside. Almost half your living space is open to the weather, and on a boat you intend to spend months aboard in the tropics, that ratio is the whole experience. I would rather have that than another two feet of saloon.
What I keep coming back to, though, is how conventional the sailing side is, and I mean that as praise. One big full-batten mainsail, one genoa on a furler, an optional Code 0 for the light stuff. There is nothing exotic to learn and nothing exotic to break at 2 a.m. Combine that with a flybridge helm where the person steering is still part of the group, and you get a 67-footer that an experienced couple can genuinely run themselves — which is the difference between a yacht that gets cruised and a yacht that gets admired at the dock.
Two pieces of advice. Choose your cabin count based on the guests who actually turn up, not the ones you imagine: six cabins is a hosting and charter tool, and if you are not filling them the four- or five-cabin boat gives you storage and quiet you will use every day. And use the customization program with a plan — decide how you will live aboard first, then pick the woodwork and the layout, because it is very easy to specify a beautiful yacht that does not match your actual routine. Get those two right and the Sixty 5 is one of the most complete cruising platforms in her size.
— Tony Smith, Founder, Minted Yachts