2005 Lagoon Lagoon 380

A 2005 Lagoon 380, asking $167,400 through Neo Marine. This is the design that made Lagoon: VPLP drew it in 1999 with the vertical saloon windows that became the brand's signature, and it went on to be the best-selling cruising catamaran ever built. The brief was never speed — 37.9 ft of hull on 21.4 ft of beam, arranged so a couple could work it and a charter fleet could not break it. A 2005 build falls late in the original run, which ended in 2008 when the revised S2 carried the mould on.

Two honesty notes. Neo Marine states no location for this hull, and we hold no condition detail — nothing here implies a survey. And the shelf holds no exact sister to benchmark against; the nearest yardstick is the S2 below.

What the shelf does place is the price. At $167,400 it asks $10,800 less than the one-year-newer S2 — consistent, not a bargain. The Lagoon premium is real: 1990s catamarans of this length here ask $95,000–$127,000, while three more feet of Lagoon asks $175,000–$190,000. It belongs with the catamarans under $200k, where mid-2000s French production cats set the ceiling.

That yardstick first: the 2006 Lagoon 380 S2 at Tarragona is the factory's own revision of this boat, one year newer, asking $10,800 more:

If the 380 reads tight, the same catalogue answers one size up — the 2004 Lagoon 410 S2 at Kemah, Texas, nearly three more feet for $22,599 more:

And where the budget instinct leads, the 1995 Fountaine Pajot Athena 38 at Saint Augustine, Florida is this length ten years earlier — $95,000, or $72,400 under this boat:

But if it is the most proven cruising catamaran of the era you came for, this is the one to survey first: