These
are pictures from our trip to Fort Lauderdale in early July, 2003 for the initial
inspection, survey, and sea trial of our boat prior to negotiating the purchase
at the end of July. We had already been to Fort Lauderdale a few weeks before
and seen numerous catamarans in the Ft. Lauderdale area. We had narrowed the search
to the best Lagoon 380 we could find. The following photographs and comments were
produced as a result of the initial trip to actually "test drive" the
boat and have it appraised by an expert prior to making an offer. |
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The
layout of the boat is an "owner's version."
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| Diesel
generator mounted in a forward locker and outside the living quarters. It is a
9.5 kw generator, so if there is a need to throw a KISS concert at Norman Island
in the BVI, we're ready. The generator only has 40 hours on it. It has a soft
cover, sound shield that is folded back here for inspection. |
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| Starboard
locker with electric anchor windlass, a hundred feet of chain, lots of rope, and
a spare anchor, etc. The blue tank is a water tank and there is an identical one
next door in the locker with the generator for a total of 160 gallons of water. |
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| The helm showing instrumentation. |
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| This is a shot of the
cockpit from inside the main salon. |
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| One of the Yanmar 27
hp diesels. There is one in the aft of each hull and, as you can see, there is
a firewall that separates the engine compartments from the living quarters. The
engines had 300 hours on them at the time of the survey. |
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| View of the bow of
the boat. We were lucky enough to catch the Admiral lounging on the trampoline.
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| Another
view of the helm and the aft cockpit. |
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| As you can see, the
dinghy is a Zodiac and has an 8 hp 4 stoke Honda outboard with 10 hours on it.
There is also a complete blue canvas cover that was removed for the survey. There
is talk about hanging our Miata on the davits instead of the dinghy (if only the
Miata could swim). |
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| Hanging in the slings
at Fort Lauderdale Marine. That's the surveyor, Brian Stetler, looking her over.
As you can see, the Admiral looks on from the starboard bow. |
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| Another shot of her
hanging in the slings just before being splashed gently back into the Las Olas
River for sea trial. |
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| One of the aft berths. |
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| An escape hatch in
one of the aft berths. There is one in each hull so that you can get in or out
in the event of a capsize. |
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| Forward berth in the
port hull. |
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| Main salon showing
galley and stairway down into the starboard hull. |
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| Buddy trying to estimate
exactly what hydrodynamic properties the roof has in the event we have to sail
it upside down! Yikes! |
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| Shower in the owner's
hull (starboard hull). It is as big as the shower in our house, complete with
shower seat. The head room is 6'5" here and everywhere else in the boat. |
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| Stairway
down into the starboard hull, showing the office area.
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| Buddy
sitting at the navigation station, looking at one of the manuals to try and figure
out which side is port and which side is starboard on this particular boat...duh...
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