How to build a Lagoon Catamaran
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- The iCAT SVN CATAMARANS crew was the first crew ever allowed to film at the Lagoon shipyard. It wasn't easy, but in the end we made this documentary showing you how catamarans are built at the Garonne shipyard in Bordeaux.
Our guide is Simone Morelli of the NSS Group, Europe's largest Lagoon dealer.
This documentary is part of a major operation celebrating Lagoon's 40th anniversary. In September, a documentary on the shipyard's history will follow.
A few years back, my father-in-law got a catamaran from NSS with a special deal, and it was really great.
I have just had a holiday on a Lagoon 55, a beautiful boat that made me fall in love with catamarans.
Thanks, guys, this is super interesting. I had no idea Lagoon builds their boats using infusion. It's also really cool that the central part of the catamaran is infused along with half of the hulls.
Very interesting video
This video is very interesting. I always wonder how a catamaran is built. I was on a Lagoon 46 last week and now I know a bit more about this boat.
Their interiors are made outside the hull and dropped in you can never get behind the panels without cutting through them. The modules are only attached to the hull with blobs of glue and not fully tabbed. These are designed to be quickly and cheapest build.😊
You are the best sailing network I know. I also follow your SVN channel, always interesting videos.
Is it dubbed with artificial intelligence? It's almost perfect.
Only a hundred catamarans a year, I thought?
An undred catamaran is built in Bordeaux, where Lagoon builds the big boats, then there are two other shipyards where they build the other boats, from 46 feet down.
@@iCatSVN Great Information!
But when it's no longer usable, who's going to deal with all that fibreglass? Do you have any idea how much it pollutes?
Do the catamarans that go to the USA also go by sea?
No, they are shipped by cargo
@@iCatSVN Great to know!!
Since you use artificial intelligence for the dubbing, why don't you make the videos in English?
Lagoon have thrown out all the basic principles of multihulls. Which is high strength, low weight, good sailing ability and definitely no mini keels. Catamarans should be built as a monocoque structure. Not like IKEA furniture. Lagoons are great as a charter boat, but definitely not safe to sail around the world, all the broken bulkheads etc. Decks peeling off, it goes on and on. Just keep them in flat water.
If I buy an Audi 8, it's not to take part in the Paris Dakar. To say that the Lagoon is not a catamaran, or that these boats go against all the principles of multihulls, I think is profoundly wrong. Every product is built to satisfy the customer. If we suggest to the owner of a Lagoon 46 that he take a month's holiday in an HH 44, he will tell us that we are crazy, that he doesn't want to spend a month in a tuna can. The same will happen, from the other point of view, if we suggest to the owner of an HH44 that he should sail a Lagoon 46 for a month.
Knowing boats means knowing the purpose for which they were built. For us, judging a boat means seeing if it fulfils its purpose at the right price.
Lagoon cats are only to be sailed in lagoons. Probably will crack under the mast after a few thousand miles. Terrible reputation for quality. Parlay revival sailing along in 15 kn and spinnaker ripped the foredeck off. These guys are bullshitters.
But if these guys are liars, as you say, why are there several thousand Lagoons sailing around the world? NSS, the first Lagoon dealer in Europe, is also the first charter company in Italy and they have a charter base in the Caribbean, every year they send 5 or 6 catamarans by sea from Sardinia to the Caribbean and bring them back at the end of the winter and they've never had any major accidents other than sailing or orcas.
The Lagoons probably won't be able to do what boats like the Outremer or other offshore cats can do, but on the other hand they cost half as much and are twice as comfortable. I think the important thing is to know what kind of boat you are talking about. If you expect a Lagoon to do Cape Horn in rough seas, you are probably in the wrong boat. If, on the other hand, you want a Lagoon for 30 summers in Sardinia or Sicily or Spain and a couple of round-the-world trips through the straits, then a Lagoon might be for you.
Because their cheap and built for the charter market where their used for a few years & then onsold to some poor schmuck to deal with their poor build quality! 😊
@@iCatSVNcheck out Lagoon owners sites on social media, not very well put together at all.
Don’t buy these, they are so poorly built even anew one is an utter turd!
Their big fat charter boats built on the cheap to be onsold after a few years when they start to self-destruct. 😅