Lagoon designers help win America's Cup

The naval architect company used by Lagoon, VPLP, were one of the design teams on the 2010 America's Cup winner, BMW Oracle.

With boat design unrestricted, the 33rd America's Cup race moved from traditional monohulls to the fastest form of sailing with head-to-head competition between two giant multihulls - Alinghi's catamaran and BMW Oracle's trimaran.

Although one boat had two hulls and one three, when racing both were flying a hull - thus essentially highly counterbalanced monohulls...!

The French design firm of VPLP (Van Peteghem Lauriot Prevost) have been the key naval architects since Lagoon's very earliest days as the racing division of Jeanneau.

VPLP have been responsible, along with the Lagoon in-house design teams, for all Lagoon sailing catamaran models - though none are quite as radical as the BMW Oracle trimaran.

And in case any reassurance is needed for the cruising community, Lagoon catamarans are not designed to sail quite this way and will not fly a hull...!