NEMESIS

Lagoon 450 F — Greece The Lagoon 450 F is built around one simple idea, and it works: the saloon opens straight onto the cockpit, with enough glazing and light that the line between inside and out stops registering after the first morning. You drift from the shade of the saloon to the cockpit table with a coffee, and the Aegean is right there. Accommodation runs to six cabins for twelve guests — four with a double bed, two with a single. It is a genuinely sociable layout for a large family group or friends chartering together, with the volume a catamaran gives you rather than the compromises of a monohull of comparable length. She cruises Greek waters, where a shallow-draught catamaran earns its keep: anchorages the deeper boats have to pass by, mornings at rest in a quiet bay, afternoons under sail between the islands.