Review of Lagoon 470

Basic specs.

The Lagoon 470 is a large catamaran designed by the French maritime architect bureau VPLP Design in the late nineties. Less than 100 boats have been built. The Lagoon 470 is built by the French yard Jeanneau.

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. A hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season.

Interior

The boat is equipped with 4 cabins, 9 berths and 600 liters (158 US gallons, 131 imperial gallons) fresh water capacity.

Rig

The Lagoon 470 is built with a fractional rig. A fractional rig has smaller headsails which make tacking easier, which is an advantage for cruisers and racers, of course. The downside is that having the wind from behind often requires a gennaker or a spinnaker for optimal speed.

Keel

Unknown keel type

The boat can enter even shallow marinas as the draft is just about 1.20 - 1.30 meter (3.94 - 4.24 ft) dependent on the load.

Engine

The fuel tank, which is made of stainless steel, has a capacity of 480 liters (126 US gallons, 105 imperial gallons).

Lagoon 470 may be equipped with dual engines at 76 hp (56 kW)..

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

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Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Lagoon 470 is 1.78.

Compared with other similar sail catamarans it is more spacy than 62% of all other designs.

D/L (Displacement Length Ratio)

What is Displacement Length Ratio?

The DL-ratio for Lagoon 470 is 101 which categorizes this boat among 'light racers'.

69% of all similar sailboat designs are categorized as heavier. A light displacement requires less sailarea and has higher accellerations.

Maintenance

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.