Well it’s a little late to the presses, but we got a boat! We planned an exploratory trip down to Florida to look at a number of different catamaran models and made a pledge not to buy anything even leaving our checkbook at home. But on the first day of looking that thought went right out the window and we executed an EFT. . .
Our dream boat for the past three years has been a Lagoon 400, we have spent the last 3 Strictly Sail shows sitting on the same boat looking at every nook and cranny day dreaming how great a platform she would be to cruise on. The problem is that the 400 is so new there are very few available on the secondary market and they are priced close to new boat values. As we were looking at a used Lagoon 420 were making comments on how it compared to the 400 and we were quickly directed to a brand new 400 that was shown in the Miami boat show and offered well below market. After a couple days of hemming and hawing we decided to put in an offer and told ourselves that we wouldn’t negotiate if they came back and wanted more, a day later we got the call and the boat was ours!!!
So the soon to be christened “Ryana” is a 2012 40 foot Lagoon 400 with all the goodies; 3 zone AC, genset, electric winches, radar, AIS, cockpit enclosure and a lot more. We are both very excited to be able to take our upcoming cruise on the boat of our dreams. We’ll be traveling back to Fort Lauderdale June 2nd to take ownership and will be spending a week fitting her out and relaxing on the hook.