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If you’re in the market for a luxury catamaran, the Lagoon 52 is definitely worth considering. This impressive vessel boasts a spacious interior, top-of-the-line features, and a sleek design that’s sure to turn heads. In this review, we’ll take a closer look at what makes the Lagoon 52 such a standout choice for boaters.
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Introduction to the Lagoon 52
The Lagoon 52 is a luxurious catamaran that offers a perfect blend of comfort, performance, and style. With its spacious interior, top-of-the-line features, and sleek design, this vessel is a popular choice among boaters who want to enjoy the ultimate sailing experience. Whether you’re planning a long-distance voyage or a weekend getaway, the Lagoon 52 is sure to impress. In this comprehensive review, we’ll explore the features, specs, and more that make this catamaran a standout choice for any boater.
Exterior Features and Design
The Lagoon 52 boasts a sleek and modern design that is sure to turn heads on the water. Its exterior features include a spacious cockpit with ample seating, a large flybridge with a helm station, and a swim platform for easy access to the water. The catamaran also features a unique “gullwing” bridge deck design that provides excellent visibility and stability while sailing. Additionally, the Lagoon 52 comes equipped with a variety of high-quality components, including Harken winches, Spinlock clutches, and a Z-Spars mast and boom. Overall, the exterior of the Lagoon 52 is both stylish and functional, making it an ideal choice for any boater looking for a top-of-the-line catamaran.
Interior Features and Design
The interior of the Lagoon 52 is just as impressive as its exterior. The catamaran features a spacious and comfortable living area with plenty of natural light and ventilation. The saloon includes a large dining table, comfortable seating, and a fully equipped galley with a refrigerator, freezer, oven, and stove. The Lagoon 52 also features four luxurious cabins, each with its own private bathroom. The cabins are well-appointed and offer plenty of storage space for all your belongings. Overall, the interior of the Lagoon 52 is designed with both comfort and functionality in mind, making it the perfect choice for extended cruising or living aboard.
Performance and Handling
The Lagoon 52 is a high-performance catamaran that is designed to handle a variety of sailing conditions. The boat features a powerful sail plan that includes a full-batten mainsail and a self-tacking jib. The rig is designed to be easy to handle, even for a small crew, and the boat is equipped with electric winches to make sail handling even easier. The Lagoon 52 also features a high-performance hull design that is optimized for speed and stability. The boat is easy to maneuver and can be sailed in a wide range of wind conditions. Overall, the Lagoon 52 is a pleasure to sail and is sure to impress even the most experienced sailors.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
In conclusion, the Lagoon 52 is an impressive catamaran that offers a great balance of performance, comfort, and style. With its spacious interior, luxurious amenities, and high-performance sailing capabilities, it’s no wonder that the Lagoon 52 is such a popular choice among sailors. Whether you’re looking to sail around the world or just enjoy a weekend getaway, the Lagoon 52 is sure to exceed your expectations. So if you’re in the market for a new catamaran, be sure to give the Lagoon 52 a closer look.
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- Updated: August 30, 2013
As one of two Lagoons introduced earlier this year in the United States at the Strictly Sail Miami boat show, the new 52 shares many characteristics with its smaller, 39-foot sibling. (See “Little Big Boat.” ) The exterior lines and features of each cat—including the sweet, elegant, “diamond-shaped” vertical bows—were sculpted and specified by the well-respected French naval architecture consortium Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost, while the accommodations plan and interior styling were the domain of the Italian firm Nauta Design.
VPLP is known for its offshore racing cats, and the centralized mast placement in both models is an idea borrowed from the racecourse; this not only opens up visibility to the helmsman but also expands the foretriangle and provides a wider range of optional downwind sails. (The spars on each boat are stepped on an infused beam for structural integrity and load dispersion, though the 39’s is also tied to a full grid running beam to beam, while the 52’s is a single longitudinal member.)
Finally, both yachts were similarly constructed using anti-osmotic and polyester resins, with an infused balsa-core sandwich in the decks and the topsides of the hulls; below the waterline, the layup is infused solid glass.
Given the size discrepancies, however, the similarities, for the most part, end there.
Nowhere was this more obvious than when one is perched behind the articulating wheel (it can either be centered or cocked slightly to port or starboard) of the 52 on the expansive, raised flybridge. The wide, commanding view was spectacular, as was the powerful performance. With a full crew of talented sailors aboard for our test run in the open ocean off Miami (at one point, there were seven of us on the bridge, and it was most definitely not crowded), I did my best, from my second-story vantage point, to keep them hopping. Working through the headsail progressions, under genoa and full main, in about 17 knots of true wind, our closehauled speeds ranged from 8.5 to 10 knots. But when we swapped the working sail for the gargantuan code zero reacher and spun the wheel down a few degrees, the 52 really took off, making a solid 12 knots with ease.
Once I handed over the driving duties and returned to deck level, I realized that the operative word to describe the 52 is simple: big.
Everything about the boat seems spacious, but the flow from the wide aft cockpit to the roomy main saloon, and from there down into the accommodations and staterooms, is natural and intuitive. In other words, it may be a very large vessel, but it still feels accessible and inviting. There are, of course, multiple layout plans from which to choose, but the boat we sailed had a most unusual and interesting option: a vast owners suite aft, to port, with a sole entryway from the cockpit. It takes the notion of truly private quarters to a whole new level. And on a cat with many levels, it was just another pleasant surprise.
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