Lagoon, the catamaran brand of the Beneteau Group, now builds catamarans of 24 metres and above in series. There are two of them. The Eighty 2 is a sailing catamaran, on the water since 2025. The Eighty 3 is a motor catamaran of the same length, and its first hull went to its owners this year. Lagoon product director Rosalie le Gall told Leona Caanen of SuperYacht Times that existing Lagoon owners account for only 30–40 percent of buyers at this size. The other 60 percent own yachts from other builders or are buying their first.
Lagoon has built catamarans for more than four decades, and le Gall sees few rivals in the superyacht catamaran segment: "the luxury catamaran segment of the market is smaller, in terms of offer. There are not as many players and very few shipyards address this market".
Who buys a 24-metre Lagoon?
The idea came from Lagoon's own customers. "It was mainly Lagoon owners that were asking for larger catamarans," le Gall says, and demand for the big models has grown especially over the last ten years. "We saw clients moving up from a Lagoon 380 or 42 to a Lagoon 51, and onwards to the Lagoon 60 and Seventy 7 and Seventy 8." The Seventy 7 sailing catamaran and its motor version, the Seventy 8, are both on the water; the first Seventy 8 was launched in Bordeaux in May 2017. According to Yachting World, Lagoon had built 88 catamarans longer than 75 feet by December 2024, 52 of them Seventy 7s.
At 24 metres the mix of buyers looks different.
Rosalie le Gall, product director, Lagoon:“Existing owners only make up 30-40 percent. The remaining 60 percent is split between existing yacht owners who switch to a Lagoon, and first-time yacht owners.
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The main argument at this size is volume. Massimo Gino, co-founder of Nauta, the studio behind Lagoon's interiors for years, says that "in terms of space, available area and volume, the Eighty 2 is comparable to a 110-foot monohull." A 110-foot monohull is about 33.5 metres long.
Two boats on one 23.91-metre hull
The Eighty 2 and Eighty 3 share a 23.91-metre hull and an 11-metre beam. Both are built at CNB (Construction Navale Bordeaux), where every Lagoon from 50 feet up is made. VPLP Design did the naval architecture, VPLP and Patrick Le Quément the exterior, Nauta Yachts the interior.
The Eighty 2 premiered at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September 2025. Imladris, launched the same year, is the largest Lagoon yacht, according to SuperYacht Times. Her flybridge covers more than 50 square metres, and the stern platform folds out to 22 square metres, which is enough for a tender or a jet ski. Lagoon offers five cabins with the galley up in the saloon or down in a hull, or four cabins with the galley down.
The Eighty 3 had its world premiere at Lagoon Exclusive Days in Bordeaux in March 2026 and its first public outing at Cannes in September. The first hull, Alvira, was finished at CNB and delivered in 2026. Lagoon quotes 300 square metres of outdoor lounging and four to six cabins. SuperYacht Times gives Alvira 14 knots flat out, 12 knots cruising and 3,500 nautical miles of range at 9 knots.
| Eighty 2 | Eighty 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Sailing catamaran | Motor catamaran |
| Status | On the water since 2025 | First hull delivered in 2026 |
| Hull length | 23.91 m | 23.91 m |
| Length overall | 24.97 m (with all options) | 24.4 m (with all options) |
| Beam | 11 m | 11 m |
| Draught | 1.90 m | 1.27 m |
| Light displacement | Not published | 68.5 t |
| Upwind sail area | 337 m² | — |
| Engines | 2 × John Deere, 230 hp | 2 × John Deere, 580 hp |
| Fuel | 2 × 1,400 l | 8,500 l |
| Water | 2 × 800 l | 2 × 800 l |
| Berths | 8–16 | 8–16 |
| First hull | Imladris (2025) | Alvira (2026) |
What can an owner change on a production 80-footer?
SuperYacht Times puts capacity at "up to seven units of both the Eighty 2 and Eighty 3 per year". Le Gall calls this "our industrial approach" and says the aim is to start each boat against a client order. "It means we have to keep the sales pace high. When we have no client orders, we start with the production, and we try to get the layout choice right, but of course the earlier an owner joins the build process, the better."
The structure is fixed. "Most of the customisation relates to changing parts of staterooms or the choice of furnishings or colours, but not the structural bulkheads," le Gall says. Furniture on both boats is freestanding, and Nauta offers owners a choice of fabrics, colours and materials. Gino says each new model teaches the designers something: "with every new model we learn where we can give ten centimetres or take 20." Toy storage, he adds, has grown model by model.
Lagoon had a request for a helipad on the Eighty 2. Naval architects on the team studied the idea, but it had to be dropped: "structurally it's impossible," le Gall says.
The joinery is Alpi-Wood, a veneered plywood "so you don't have to use as much", from FSC-certified forest, and the deck is iroko. The fabrics, according to le Gall, "focus on less glue, less chemicals and more natural elements". Yachting World reported that the Eighty 2 hulls use bio-based and recycled resin, which saves 10 tonnes of CO2 per boat.
Rivals and the next size up
Sunreef and Fountaine Pajot Yachts already build catamarans of this size. The Sunreef 80 Next, part of the current Sunreef sailing range, is 23.87 metres long overall; the range continues with the 100 Next and the 100 Infinity. Fountaine Pajot Yachts sells the FPY 80S, formerly the Thira 80, with a 23.99-metre hull and a crew of five, and the sailing FPY 120S and motor FPY 120 in the 36-metre class above it.
The Beneteau Group mentioned the Eighty 2 in its first-half 2026 sales report in July. "Sales of multihull sailing units increased by +8% in a contracting market," the group said. It credited a weak first half of 2025, when the switch to new management software at the Bordeaux yard held back nearly €20 million of sales, as well as gains for the entry-level Lagoon 38 and "the success of premium models (Lagoon 82)", its name for the Eighty 2. Charter companies are ordering fewer sailing multihulls, and the group does not report Lagoon's revenue separately.
The company has not ruled out making Lagoon catamarans longer still. "Lagoon owners have already asked for bigger catamarans," le Gall says. A larger model, Gino says, would leave more room for customisation, such as moving the owner's cabin up to the main deck.
Photo: j.Kelagopian / Cannes Yachting Festival, Lagoon. Source: SuperYacht Times (Leona Caanen, 13.10.2026), Lagoon, YachtBuyer, Yachting World, YachtStyle, Katamarans.com, Figaro Nautisme, Boat Industry, Boat News, Beneteau Group, Sunreef, Fountaine Pajot Yachts.
