SEVENTY8 ZENIT

Lagoon Seventy 8 — Sardinia The Seventy 8 is Lagoon's flagship, and it was conceived by a team that explains a great deal about how it feels underway. VPLP design — the French naval architects behind more award-winning racing multihulls than anyone, and equally fluent in cruising platforms — drew the hulls. Patrick le Quément shaped the exterior. Nauta Design, the Italian studio that moves between series production and superyachts of considerable size, handled the interiors. What that collaboration produced is a catamaran that reads as a single, continuous line rather than a stack of volumes. Length and beam are used deliberately, without the visual breaks that so often interrupt a large multihull, and the proportions hold together whether you are looking at her from the tender or standing at the helm. The detailing rewards a second look. The practical consequence of a superyacht approach to a catamaran is space — and space of a particular kind. A wide beam means living areas that spread out rather than stack up, and accommodation set well apart from the social heart of the yacht. Four cabins host eight guests; the detailed bed configuration is available on request. Sardinia is a natural fit. The Maddalena archipelago, the granite inlets of the Costa Smeralda, the shallow turquoise shelves off Budelli — a shallow-draft catamaran reaches anchorages that deeper monohulls have to admire from a distance. Your crew handles the itinerary, the provisioning and the timing of each move, so the days settle into the rhythm you set rather than the other way around.