The birth of Lagoon Catamarans can be traced back to the early 1980s when the Jeanneau Techniques Avancées (JTA) was opened by Jeanneau to build ultra-modern racing prototypes for international sailing competition. Although maxi-multihulls were an important development within the group it was not until 1986 that something happened to change the course of multihull history. It was in this year that a particular customer requested the construction of a cruising catamaran that employed the specific design of Marc Van Peteghem & Lauriot Prevost, then leading designers in the competition world.
