Lightspeed 32
he LIGHTSPEED 32 features all the latest sailing, engineering and construction innovations. She was developed by a team including former US Olympic 470 skipper Kristina Stookey, Alinghi’s chief engineer Dirk Kramers and the boatbuilders of the America’s Cup Class, as well as Stewart Wiley and Ted Brown of Al Fresco Composites.
Lagoon 3rd generation
This third generation, which includes the 440, 500, 420, 400, 421, 620, 560 and 450, featured an innovation new to the Lagoon range: the 440 was the first cruising catamaran to offer a modest flybridge, while the 560 was given what we would consider today to be a flybridge proper.
Lokeya
VPLP’s collaboration with the Saint Malo skipper and fisherman Franck-Yves Escoffier has been twofold, designing the 50’ trimarans Crêpes Whaou! 2 and 3, with which he won the Route du Rhum and the Transat Jacques-Vabre, as well as the 40’ aluminium fishing catamaran Lokeya (name derived from the first names of his three sons, Loïc, Kevin and Yannig).
TAJ
Launched in 2003, this classic 77’ catamaran was designed for sailing primarily in the Mediterranean and the West Indies.
Ciliam
When VPLP launched Ciliam in 2003, the idea was to produce a fast sailing catamaran which was comfortable both inside and out. With this in mind, instead of a traditional coachroof, the firm decided on a superstructure which covered the entire main deck, a veritable innovation in those days. The result was an extremely spacious […]
Douce France
At her launch in 1998, after almost a decade in design and construction, Douce France was the world’s largest cruising catamaran with an LOA of 138’ (42 m) and a beam of 50’6” (15.4 m), a record now held by Hemisphere.
Lagoon 2nd generation
The second generation of Lagoons, which includes the 410, 470, 380 and 570, is a continuation of the first with the focus on comfort. VPLP opted for a coachroof with vertical glazing for the 410 and higher, the previous solution being sloped windows and streamlining.
Lagoon 1st generation
It was back in 1987 that VPLP launched its first Lagoons, a pair of 55’ sisterships weighing in at 14 tonnes and built by Jean-François de Prémorel at Jeanneau Techniques Avancées. They would be the first of several generations and marked the start of a fruitful collaboration between the firm and Groupe Beneteau.
