Five cabins, an 80-horsepower upgrade and a hydraulic swim platform that doubles as the easiest dinghy lift on the anchorage — a walkthrough of a Lagoon 50 that has actually done the miles.
Filmed at anchor in Georgetown, Bahamas, this walkthrough of S/V Wisdom comes with a rare credential: the person showing you around has cruised alongside her. Broker Will Marks describes hundreds — maybe thousands — of miles shared with the family aboard this 2023 Lagoon 50, plus countless anchorages and evenings in her cockpit. That familiarity shows in the tour, which skips the brochure language and goes straight to the details that matter when a catamaran is also your home.
Flybridge first
The tour opens on what Marks calls the boat’s best feature: the flybridge. Aft, there’s a day bed — a layout change from the Lagoon 450, where the day bed sat forward — and here it’s shaded by a massive factory-installed hardtop bimini. Wisdom also carries the full surround enclosure, so the helm and lounge can be zipped up into a warm, dry space when the weather turns. Marks frames it less as a helm station and more as another room in the house, which is exactly how a full-time cruising family uses it: extra seating, extra shade, and somewhere to get a little distance from each other when needed.
The swim platform that lifts the dinghy
A big factory upgrade option here is the hydraulic swim platform, and it earns its place twice. As a lounge, it’s a shaded, toes-in-the-water spot on a hot day. As a davit system, Marks rates it among the easiest he’s used: get the dinghy close to the bar, press the remote, and up it goes — single-handed, or, as he puts it, simple enough to hand the remote to a six-year-old.
Sail plan and drivetrain
Wisdom flies a large square-top main that flakes into an upgraded canoe boom. Moving the mast further aft on the Lagoon 50 allowed for a larger self-tacking jib, which means tacking and gybing with no sail handling at the helm — a genuine gift for short-handed family crews. A Code Zero on the sprit rounds out the wardrobe and, per Marks, makes her a strong performer off the wind on broad reaches and dead downwind.
Under the sole is where this particular hull separates itself. Many Lagoon 50s were delivered with 57-horsepower engines; Wisdom was optioned with Yanmar 4JH80s at 80 horsepower, driving SD60 sail drives (an upgrade over the SD50s) and Flex-o-fold props.
| Common Lagoon 50 option | 57 | |||
| S/V Wisdom (Yanmar 4JH80) | 80 |
Marks lingers in the engine room for good reason: access to all four sides of the engine, plus the fuel system, electrical gear, solar controllers and lithium system all within reach, with room to sit down and actually work. For owners maintaining their own boat far from a yard, that’s a feature, not a footnote.
Living space, and five cabins in an owner’s version
The cockpit flows into a large salon with a galley featuring counters on both sides and a stepped-up, mezzanine-style settee that Marks jokes is bigger than the sectional in his house. Airflow — a chronic catamaran complaint in the tropics — is handled by the big forward-facing salon window that replaced the small hatches of earlier models, pulling breeze through the salon and out into the cockpit.
The starboard hull is the owner’s suite: aft berth, generous storage, a dedicated office space for remote work, a large head with walk-in shower and Jack-and-Jill layout with the toilet in its own private room. The usual trade-off with an owner’s version is cabin count — not here. A tucked-away double berth suits younger kids and can be converted to a closet with the factory kit, or used as storage or a workshop. To port there are three more cabins for a total of five: an aft queen with a full closet and head, a mid cabin double, and a forward queen that Marks says feels every bit as roomy as the aft cabin. His favorite touch is a small one — the forward head has a second door, so the mid-cabin occupant can reach it without waking anyone. There’s also an extra fridge tucked into the hull, using every nook.
Where she sits in the market
| Active Lagoon 50 listings | 8 |
|---|---|
| Asking range | $495,000 – $1,165,000 |
| Median asking | $772,000 |
| Listings with a price cut | 1 |
| Inquiries, last 30 days | 4 (vs 0 prior 30) |
Marks also notes that every vessel his team lists gets a 360-degree tour, letting buyers walk the decks and open the mechanical lockers before booking flights — a sensible starting point for a boat lying in the Bahamas.