My wife and I will do an open ended
cruise. Given
family situation our
purchase is roughly 5 years out, the
cruise starting a couple of years later, but it doesn't stop us from the pleasure of planning and dreaming today.
I always pictured a
monohull until a your ago when we by
accident stepped on a
Lagoon 400. Big eye opener, and since then we know that a cat is the deal.
Given the time of the
purchase, currrent thinking is to buy an aproximately 5 year old cat five years from now, so looking at different alternatives, the
boat we will buy must be in production today. Used
Lagoon 400 fits what our
budget will be, so 5 years from now there will just be more to chose from.
Now to the big snagg. I'm 6'7" (2 meter) tall. We previously did a 3 months cruise on a
trawler around the Bahamans where the
headroom was about 2" less my hight. Towards the end I started to develop backpain, so on a much longer journey, I have to be able to stand up straight in the main aerea of the
boat.
The
Lagoon 400 excels in
headroom. It felt good when I was on it a year ago, and the specification reads 7' feet (2.13m) in the
saloon. Last week I was at a boatshow where they had the
Lagoon 450 on display. This boat is out of our
budget, but interestingly I could just about stand in the
saloon, and the specification reads 6'9" (2.05m) in the saloon. I was surprised it despite being bigger actually has less headroom than the L400. The
Lagoon 420 has less headroom than both the L400 and L450.
So my questions is. Is there another cat being produced today with a similar headroom as the Lagoon 400 and around the same
price, or is it our only available choice.
Thanks for any inputs.