It’s been a few years now since the incredibly revolutionary Dufour Grand Large 500 blasted onto the scene with all kinds of newfangled ideas. The Felci design turned heads, so Dufour ensured that the line grew by quickly introducing the similar Grand Large (GL) 560 and 460. Now in the…

Nothing kills innovation faster than incremental improvement. Maybe that’s why nothing inspires it like a clean sheet of paper. Kudos to Lagoon for understanding that and tossing out preconceived notions. With the launch of the new Lagoon 50, the French catamaran builder tapped into true innovation in a world of…

French catamaran builder, Lagoon, has been searching for the magic bullet for 20 years. With the new Lagoon 40, they may have found it. The dilemma has been how to replace their uber-popular 380 cat that launched over 800 hulls and is still in (limited) production. Couples loved the layout,…

The first boat in Groupe Beneteau’s “.1” line was the revamped 41 that morphed nicely into the 41.1 a few years ago—a model that basically “fixed” all its predecessor’s initial shortcomings. It became so popular that the French company decided to build on the concept with additional lengths developed on…

Every now and then someone takes and age-old idea and changes it up so thoroughly that they kick it up a notch and actually innovate. That’s what Jeanneau did with the new models in their Sun Odyssey line that’ll make you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” The brand…