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The Lagoon 37 is a French
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that was designed by
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as a
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and first built in 1991.


Production

The design was initially built by
Jeanneau Jeanneau is a French boatyard in Les Herbiers, in the Vendée département, which has produced yachts since 1957. It was founded by Henri Jeanneau, a hardware store owner, who began by producing power boats. Jeanneau specializes in monohulls, ...
in France, through a new division,
Lagoon catamaran Lagoon catamaran is a brand of twin-hulled boats that are designed and produced in Bordeaux, France. The company began in 1984 as a specialist multihull division of Jeanneau, a volume monohull constructor. Jeanneau sold the division to Construct ...
, which later became part of Construction Navale Bordeaux (CNB) and then the Beneteau Group. In the United States it was produced by
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. A total of 41 boats were built between 1991 and 1998, but it is now out of production.


Design

The Lagoon 37 is a recreational catamaran, built predominantly of
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-cored bi and triaxial cloth
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, with isophthalic resin. It has a 7/8 fractional sloop rig. The hulls have
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s,
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s with steps to swimming platforms, twin internally mounted spade-type
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s controlled by a
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and fixed fin
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s. It displaces and carries no ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keels. The boat is fitted with twin British
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or Japanese
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s, for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds and the fresh water tank has a capacity of . The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with two central cabins and a cabin in the port pontoon, each with a double berth. There is a central salon with an eight-seat U-shaped settee. The
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is located in the port pontoon, amidships. The galley has an island configuration and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an
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and double sinks. The
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is located aft in the starboard pontoon and includes a shower. For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical
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. The design has a
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of .


Operational history

In a review Chris Caswell stated, "probably the biggest surprise to monohull sailors is that the Lagoon 37 doesn't give up any windward ability. With a pair of NACA-shaped fin keels, our 37 sailed just as high as several modern monohulls, made a steady nine knots in the 18-knot apparent wind, and tacked through 90 degrees. Off the wind, of course, the cat was quick and the speedometer showed bursts as high as 15 knots without any effort." In a ''Sailing Magazine'' review,
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Robert Perry wrote, "the Lagoon 37 appears to be a clean and refined cat with careful attention paid to styling. You certainly cannot base this appreciation on the profile of the cat alone. In profile, without any indication of the tremendous beam, almost any cat will look very high and top-heavy. But if you can view the Lagoon from about 30 degrees off the bow, the height of the house is diminished and you have a handsome, if somewhat spacey-looking, boat."


See also

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List of multihulls Types * catamaran = two symmetric hulls * proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable Bow (ship), bow/stern) * trimaran = three hulls * quadrimaran = four hulls * pentamaran = five hulls Pre-modern Austronesian people, Austrone ...
*
List of sailing boat types The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghy, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes World Sailing Classes Historically known as the IYRU (International Yacht ...


References

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