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Some boat tours are about gleaming surfaces. This one is about how a cruising catamaran actually works when you live aboard it. In a detailed interior walkthrough of S/V Makai, a 2014 Lagoon 400 S2 listed by Joan, the owner opens nearly every locker, explains every switch, and makes a convincing case that this 40-footer has been set up by people who go places in it. Cool, Bright, and Organized The tour begins with the boat buttoned up and all four air conditioning units running — a detail worth noting for buyers in warm climates.…

Some walkthroughs are staged. This one isn’t. The exterior tour of S/V Makai, a 2014 Lagoon 400 S2 offered by Joan, is narrated by an owner who clearly knows where every dive tank, paddle board and propane bottle lives — and that tells you as much about the boat as any spec sheet. The aft deck and that custom arch The tour opens at the transom, where a relatively new custom arch does quadruple duty: it carries the solar panel, extends shade over the aft deck, holds fishing rods, and — with a pulley rigged from it — hoists the outboard onto the dinghy.…

Some boat videos walk you through every locker and pump. This one doesn’t. The clip for S/V Clapotis, a 2015 Lagoon 450F (hull #389), is a music-led montage — original tracks “Gettin’ Marinated” and “Son of a Beach” by Jason Zinsmeister — set to scenes of life aboard. It opens on “Day 2, waking up in Baja Sur,” coffee in hand, and never really leaves that register: warm light, palm trees, the water, and the easy rhythm of a boat being used rather than stored.…

Some walkthrough videos talk you through every locker; this one simply plays a song. The footage accompanying S/V Clapotis is set to music rather than commentary, so rather than guess at what the camera passes over, here are the facts as listed. What’s on offer She’s a 2015 Lagoon 450F — hull #389 — measuring 45 feet, offered through Paul on YachtSite.com. The “F” designation is the meaningful part: this is the flybridge version of Lagoon’s best-selling mid-size cruising catamaran, with the helm and lounging area raised above the coachroof rather than tucked to one side.…

The video accompanying this listing plays more like a cruising highlight reel — a soundtrack over sunlit anchorages, with place names like Isla del Carmen drifting past — than a narrated tour. It sets a mood rather than a spec sheet, so rather than guess at what the camera glides over, here is what we can say with confidence about the boat itself. The boat S/V Clapotis is a 2015 Lagoon 450F — hull #389 — measuring 45 feet. The “F” denotes the flybridge version of Lagoon’s best-known mid-size cruising catamaran, the layout that places the helm and a social lounging area up top, above and behind the coachroof, leaving the cockpit and saloon uninterrupted below.…

Most owner tours dwell on cushions and countertops. The technical walkthrough of S/V Stray Cats, a 2016 Lagoon 450 F offered by Jannelle, goes the other way: it opens in the rig, works its way through the solar array and lithium bank, and finishes in the bilges talking about thru-hulls. If you’re shopping this platform seriously, it’s the video you want. A rig that rewrites the 450 F routine The headline modification is a Leisure Furl Passagemaker boom furler in place of the standard main and sail bag.…

Some catamarans reveal themselves slowly. Others tell you everything in the first thirty seconds. S/V Stray Cats, a 2016 Lagoon 450 F presented by Jannelle, falls into the second camp: a walkthrough of her fit and finish quickly becomes a catalogue of small, considered decisions made by owners who have actually lived aboard. The numbers first. She measures 45 feet 10 inches with a 25-foot 6-inch beam and a 75-foot 6-inch mast, laid out in the four-cabin, four-head configuration. She is the flybridge version of the 450 — the “F” — and, importantly for buyers wary of ex-fleet boats, she has never been chartered and has never been through a hurricane.…

Some catamaran tours race through the highlights. This one, led by Martina from the Lagoon product marketing team, takes its time — and the result is one of the more useful walkthroughs a prospective Lagoon 46 buyer can watch. The boat in question here is Sand Dollar, a 2023 Lagoon 46 listed by broker Staley Weidman, and the video covers essentially every corner of the design, from the anchor locker to the flybridge sunpad. Starting at the bow The tour opens in the forward cockpit, which Lagoon treats as a genuine living space rather than an afterthought.…

Most refits are cosmetic. This one is structural. S/V Spartan, a 2006 Lagoon 440 listed at 46 feet, has spent the better part of a year under the hands of Moshe, who set out to answer a question production catamaran owners have been asking for decades: what would it take to turn a well-loved cruising platform into a genuinely stiff, genuinely fast blue water boat? His answer was subtraction. As Moshe explains on camera, virtually every piece of interior joinery that was once wood has been replaced with honeycomb composite — material he describes as weighing roughly 10% of the timber it replaces.…

Valerie Toomey of The Multihull Company opens her walkthrough of S/V Reunited with the detail that frames the whole boat: over $55,000 in upgrades, aimed squarely at blue water cruising. This 2017 Lagoon 42 is the Owner Version, and the tour makes clear it has been set up by people who actually use it. Rig and sailing setup The mast has been shortened to allow ICW access — a meaningful practical choice for East Coast cruisers who would rather not detour offshore around fixed bridges.…

Some listing videos walk you bow to stern. This one does something different: it introduces you to the person on the other end of the phone. Cal, the broker representing the 2004 Lagoon 570 S/V FUTUNA, films from the water in West Palm Beach and spends a few candid minutes explaining how he got here. The short version: he grew up on the rivers around Pittsburgh with ski boats, speed boats and houseboats. Sailing came later — around 2000, when his father took him out and he found it maddeningly slow.…

Some cruising catamarans get popular because they sail well; others because they live well. The Lagoon 42 has managed both, and that combination — along with systems that a couple can actually manage without a full-time engineer aboard — is what Bill Regan of Catamaran Central highlights at the top of his walkthrough of this 2019 Lagoon 42 Owner’s Version. The headline gear list is long and genuinely cruising-focused: a large solar array, a lithium-ion battery bank, a Sea Recovery watermaker, an AB dinghy with a 20-horsepower outboard, twin Yanmar 57-horsepower diesels, an upgraded Cummins Onan 13.5 kW generator, folding props, a full suite of cruising sails, a brand-new anchor chain and a regalvanized anchor that, as Regan puts it, has never touched the bottom.…

The Lagoon 42 has become one of the most recognizable cruising catamarans afloat for good reason: it blends genuine sailing performance with accommodations that feel far larger than 42 feet, and it does it with systems a couple can actually manage. In this walkthrough, broker Bill Regan of Catamaran Central tours a 2019 example — S/V Lagoon 42, an Owner’s Version lying in Baltimore, Maryland — and the pitch is straightforward: this is a boat that has already been outfitted for long-range cruising rather than one that still needs to be.…

Some walkthroughs open with a spec sheet. This one opens with storage. Standing aboard S/V Pivot, a 2009 Lagoon 500, brokers Brandon and Amber of The Cruisers Company keep coming back to the same idea: this 51-footer feels more like a home than a boat. Having lived aboard their own sailboat for four years with four kids, they know exactly which details matter after the honeymoon period ends — and where cruisers run out of room. The galley sits up in the saloon, but the storage story continues down the steps, where a full counter with cabinetry hosts appliances, a freezer and a washing machine.…

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.…