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Lagoon 500 (Wallpaper 4). Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 4. Those so inclined can sit with the skipper aloft, enjoying the scenery and watching for sea life from an advantageous vantage point, something that isn't easy to do on many cats on which the bridgedeck saloon blocks much of the view from the cockpit. Others looking for a quiet place to chat, read, or simply bask will find it in a sunken seating area forward of the house. Numbers can be deceiving. The Lagoon 500 may be "only" 51 feet long, but it's a catamaran: The sails are big, and the gear is beefy and heavily loaded. If the prospective crew doesn't include a couple of young, athletic types, the electric winches aren't really an option, a sentiment shared by Harvey, who says, "The Lagoon 500 is equivalent to a 75-foot monohull in every aspect, from sail plan to living space belowdecks." For that reason, he insists that all his dealers recommend the electric option for the primary winches as well as the mainsheet/traveler winch, all of which were installed on the test boat. Lagoon 500 (Wallpaper 4). Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 4. With sheets eased, the Lagoon 500 behaved as though 20 knots of wet wind were nothing, zooming along at 10 knots and over, steady as a ferryboat, and giving a preview of how it would devour the passages that lie between the Caribbean's Windward Islands. It was also a little disconcerting, because from the elevated bridge, it was impossible to see rapidly approaching hazards behind the jib. A simple remedy is to post a crewmember in one of the bow-pulpit seats to enjoy a fine ride while keeping the necessary lookout. "To the issue of seeing hazardous objects," points out Harvey, "the genoa is equipped with a clear window to allow the helmsman to see through." On the wind, the boat is a little less agile, which is more a function of the type in general than it is of this boat in particular. The 500 has fixed keels and not daggerboards, so it won't cling terribly close to the wind, and the rapid loss of momentum when you turn two hulls into the wind means tacking lacks the drama it creates on a fin-keeled monohull. We did notice that the big cat handled the chop very well. Lagoon's designers, Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot Prévost, have been studying the interaction between waves and the hulls and bridgedeck of cruising catamarans. The Lagoon 500 embodies the results of their research in the gull-wing configuration that fairs the hulls into a nacelle molded under the centerline of the bridgedeck. Lagoon 500 (Wallpaper 4). Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship images wallpaper gallery 4. Lagoon 500 Catamarans Sailing Ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection 4.