A well balanced live-aboard and blue water cruiser

The Lagoon 380 Owner Version is the most popular catamaran in its category, known for its comfort, performance, and livability.

Spacious & Well-Designed Owner’s Cabin

The Owner Version features a dedicated full-beam master suite with a separate shower on starboard, offering exceptional privacy and luxury for liveaboard cruising.

The layout maximizes living space, making it ideal for couples or owners who prioritize comfort.

Excellent Sailing Performance & Handling

The 380 is known for its balanced sail plan and easily short-handed sailing.

The lightweight design and efficient hulls provide good speed and stability, even in light winds.

The helms is positioned aft, offering great visibility and control.

Smart Use of Space & Liveaboard Comfort

The saloon is open and airy, with large windows for natural light and excellent visibility.

The galley is well-equipped and positioned for easy access while sailing.

The cockpit provide great outdoor lounging and dining areas, enhancing the cruising lifestyle.

  • Price

    We are selling our 2007 Lagoon 380 owner version by owner.

    The price is EUR190,000.

    Balata is a French flagged vessel.

  • Location

    After completing a loop around the Caribbean, our boat is back in Martinique .

    If you are interested, please contact us to arrange a showing.

  • Delivery

    Balata is currently in Martinique, and we could consider delivery in the eastern Caribbean.

About us

We are a family with two kids (G14 and B11), completing a year-long sailing sabbatical that has taken us through all the Caribbean. All good things must come to an end, and we are offering our beloved catamaran and home “Balata” for sale as we complete our journey back to France.

Highlights

  • Sought after owner version (3 double cabins)

  • Never chartered

  • 3rd owners

  • Recent sails and standing rigging | 2023

  • Robust Volvo engines

    • <2500h

    • professional inspection and maintenance | may 2025

  • Autonomous in energy

    • new solar panels and controllers | 2024

  • Autonomous in Water

    • watermaker

    • tank 160gal or 600L

  • Bullet proof anchoring system

    • 100m stainless steel chain

    • new Rocna anchor 44 pounds or 20kg

  • French flag

Cruise ready

Balata is no dock queen. When we purchased the boat in 2024, she had recently sailed across the Atlantic and was equipped with essential cruising gear for blue ocean cruising such a safety raft and medical kits. Plus, all the standing and running rigging had been recently replaced.

Since becoming owners, we have made updates and additions in terms of confort and safety to make her perfectly suited to our family voyage through the Caribbean.

What we love about the boat

We considered a lot of boats. Here’s why we fell in love with this one.

  • We initially were looking for a robust and safe mono-haul, but knowing we will be crossing the caribbean during one year, we quickly realized that the experience on a cat would be totally different: its confort would be no-match to what any mono-haul could offer, while maintaining very high level of safety and good sailing capabilities.

    And as we confirmed with the many families and couples we have met…. “when you go Cat, you can’t come back! :o) “

    Last, catamarans are much more in demand than mono-haul in the caribbean and hence much easier to sell back.

    So paying the additional premium for a catamaran started making a lot of sense to us.

  • When we started our journey, we knew we wanted separate cabins for each of our two kids as they were entering ages where they need and demand it :o). For a 38-foot boat, the Lagoon 380 offers incredible space. The two aft cabins have queen-size beds and large hanging lockers and shelves. And the front port cabin is also very spacious.

    The vast majority of the 4 cabins layout catamarans have been chartered at some point, with all the extra damages and tear this brings along. By choosing a 3 cabins layout owner version, we had a much better guarantee to have a well cared and non chartered boat.

    The owner’s cabin is on starboard and is equipped with a private bathroom and shower in the fore, as well as a sliding door which isolate the whole starboard side of the boat from the living room, providing some privacy.

    The S2 version of the Lagoon 380, as compared to its predecessor S1, is equipped with large side windows which offer a lot of light and beautiful view over the sea.

  • The original owner of our boat sailed it across the Atlantic from Europe to the Caribbean. It came pre-equipped with much of the equipment we wanted for comfortable cruising, such as a water maker, safety gear, excellent electronics, recent sails and rigging. Since taking ownership, we have added even more equipment, such new rocna anchor, new solar panels, new engine batteries, starlink fans in every rooms, and more. Our hope is that Balata’s new owner will take this turn-key vessel cruising.

  • As we were selecting the models to buy, we already had in mind that we needed to sell our boat within one year when our journey will end, and we wanted this process to go fast.

    The lagoon 380 is the best seller catamaran in its category, and the owner version is very much thought after (much more then the 4 cabins charter version) as most have been well taken care of and never chartered. They are about 20-30% higher priced than their charter version equivalent, and for a very good reason. But they lose much less value over time, and sell much faster, which is why we decided to go only for the mythic Lagoon 380 in its owner version.