An Atlantic-tested 1995 Lagoon 37 TPI outfitted for real long-distance cruising — and offered ready for her next passage.
Filmed dockside in Fort Pierce, Florida, this walkthrough of S/V Dreamin’ — a 1995 Lagoon 37 TPI (built in partnership with Jeanneau) — is less a polished sales reel than a candid tour by an owner who has just crossed an ocean on her. That context matters: nearly every upgrade aboard exists because someone lived with it in a seaway.
Deck and Rig: Built for the Trade Winds
The tour opens on the foredeck, where green hoses feed rainwater from the hardtop straight into the water tanks — a small but telling detail from a cruiser who has learned to harvest what Florida (and the tropics) throws down. The trampoline is roughly three years old and in good shape, and the boat carries a Bougainville-style primary anchor with a Fortress as a backup for soupy mud.
All standing rigging is new — the owner mentions roughly $10,000 worth — terminated with Sta-Lok fittings that let him fine-tune tension himself after the Atlantic crossing. A Mack Pack lazy jack system, new halyards, new jib sheets, and a whisker pole round out a sail plan tuned for downwind work. As the owner puts it, this is “a downwind machine.”
Cockpit Living
The cockpit is set up for long stints aboard: a freezer under the helm station, a four-person life raft recertified just before the Atlantic crossing, and a fish-cleaning station with a freshwater rinse and a dedicated drain so blood never reaches the deck. Cushions are less than two years old. The tender is a Mercury inflatable with a 10 hp Mercury outboard. There’s even a modest Walmart propane grill — chosen, the owner explains with a grin, because a fancier West Marine unit once leaked grease all over the boat.
Electronics and Systems
At the helm, wind, depth, heading, and chart plotter all read live during the tour, with charts loaded for most of the U.S. East Coast. AIS has been offloaded to a dedicated wireless tablet so it can travel below with the crew. A radar is visible from the settee, and can be set to alarm on any target inside a three-mile ring — a nice touch for shorthanded night watches. The autopilot, the owner notes, “never missed a beat all the way across the ocean and all the way back.”
Power aboard is generous: 1,200 amp-hours of 12-volt lead-acid golf-cart batteries (only a year old), independent controllers for each solar panel, a 5 kW diesel generator with a fresh exhaust manifold and water pump, and an inverter capable of running the LG washer/dryer at anchor. The watermaker is deliberately manual — no computer to sulk mid-ocean — and produces roughly 100 gallons every three days, enough for long hot showers for everyone aboard.
Down Below
The saloon feels open and airy with the windows cracked, anchored by a stainless compression post and a substantial fiberglass beam tying the two hulls together. The owner is emphatic that offshore, “there is no flex.” Recently revarnished sole, a straight settee long enough to stretch out on, and a corner table make the space livable rather than merely functional.
The galley is a down-galley layout — a choice the owner defends by pointing at the counter space you simply don’t get with an up-galley. A large Norcold 12-volt fridge/freezer lives in the master head passageway, supplementing the cockpit freezer, and pantries throughout the boat swallow provisions two and three cans deep.
The master stateroom carries an 11-inch memory-foam mattress; the guest cabin, an 8-inch. Two 50-gallon water tanks live under settee cushions, and a full-height storage locker that crossed the Atlantic packed with food now stands mostly empty — a good measure of the boat’s carrying capacity.
Engines and Range
Both hulls carry upgraded 30 hp diesels in place of the original 18 hp units — a Volvo MD2030 to starboard and a freshly rebuilt Perkins M30 to port (the same block Volvo uses, with interchangeable parts). Critically, these are shaft-drive installations, not saildrives, meaning fewer forced haul-outs. With the main 50-gallon tank plus twelve 5-gallon jerry cans, the owner claims roughly 1,000 nautical miles of motoring range.
Market Context
The Lagoon 37 TPI is a rare bird on the brokerage market. A quick look at recent activity:
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Sold in last 24 months | 2 |
| Median sold price | $95,000 |
| Median days to sell | ~393 |
| Active listings | 1 |
| Current asking | $109,000 |
These are patient boats bought by patient buyers — but when one comes to market genuinely equipped for offshore work, it stands apart from a coastal weekender at a similar price.
The Takeaway
What makes S/V Dreamin’ interesting isn’t any single upgrade — it’s the sum of a decade-plus of thoughtful ocean-cruising choices: manual watermaker, shaft drives, rain capture, redundant anchors, an AIS tablet, spare mainsail in the bilge, a generator that was just serviced. Listed with Howard, she’s a Lagoon 37 TPI that has already done the miles most buyers dream about — and is ready to do them again.