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Lagoon 51 — Croatia A 2025 catamaran built for the way people actually sail the Dalmatian coast: long days at anchor, short hops between islands, and a great deal of time spent outdoors. The Lagoon 51 accommodates up to 10 guests. Your BellaYacht advisor will confirm the exact cabin configuration for your dates. What distinguishes this generation of Lagoon is how little separation there is between inside and out. The saloon opens directly onto the aft cockpit, the flybridge carries modular seating that reconfigures depending on whether you want sun, shade or company, and a forward cockpit gives you a second, quieter vantage point with clear sightlines over the water. Wide transoms make stepping ashore — or into the sea — genuinely easy, which matters more than it sounds when you are doing it a dozen times a day. The systems list is complete rather than showy: generator, inverter, air conditioning and heating, watermaker, ice maker, Wi-Fi, and a Fusion Apollo audio system with cockpit speakers. Sun covers shade both flybridge and cockpit, cushions are laid throughout, and there is a cockpit shower for coming back aboard. The galley handles real cooking — stove with oven, microwave, dishwasher, freezer, coffee maker — which gives a charter genuine independence from restaurant schedules. The hydraulic platform is the piece that changes the rhythm of the day. It launches the tender, which carries a 20 hp outboard, and once the tender is away it drops to become a swim platform at water level — a private beach at the stern for as long as you want it. A professional skipper runs the yacht and is happy to have you at the helm during passages or to leave you entirely to your own devices. A hostess or chef can be added to the crew on request.