Four full queen staterooms, separate hull entrances and a flybridge that seats ten — this 2009 Lagoon feels less like a boat and more like a house that happens to sail.
Some walkthroughs open with a spec sheet. This one opens with storage. Standing aboard S/V Pivot, a 2009 Lagoon 500, brokers Brandon and Amber of The Cruisers Company keep coming back to the same idea: this 51-footer feels more like a home than a boat. Having lived aboard their own sailboat for four years with four kids, they know exactly which details matter after the honeymoon period ends — and where cruisers run out of room.
The galley sits up in the saloon, but the storage story continues down the steps, where a full counter with cabinetry hosts appliances, a freezer and a washing machine. “The cabinets are large,” Amber notes, “and then additional storage all over is incredible.” It’s the kind of volume, Brandon adds, “that every cruiser liveaboard dreams of” — the difference between provisioning for a week and provisioning for a passage.
The layout is the headline
According to the video, this is the most desirable layout you can find on a Lagoon 500: four full-size staterooms, each with a queen-size berth, plus a genuine master suite. That master is the standout — a private space you can close off, with its own settee, a comfortable couch, generous storage alongside the bed, cabinetry lining the hallway and a roomy head. Every bathroom aboard, the pair note, has a serious amount of space.
What makes it work day to day is the circulation. The starboard side has two separate stairways, so the guest in the forward starboard cabin descends into their own retreat while the owners come and go through theirs. “It’s very unique in how it’s laid out for a four-cabin boat,” Brandon says. “There’s not another four-cabin boat like this on the market” when it comes to the combination of space and separation. Typically an owner’s version costs you a cabin; here a family gets four complete ones. And as the video points out, 500s were built in far smaller numbers than the ubiquitous 450 — finding one in this configuration is genuinely difficult.
Saloon, cockpit and flybridge
The saloon is Amber’s favorite — “the heart of the home” — with the galley forward and, unusually, a forward-facing L-shaped settee that’s as good for entertaining as it is for watching the bow rise. The galley extends aft into additional counter and cabinet space.
Aft, another L-shaped settee wraps a table with room for a crowd, backed by a sink, counter and cabinetry. The dinghy davit system is sized for the boat: a tender big enough to serve as the family car, minivan and SUV all at once. Up top, the flybridge earns its own segment. Brandon lived aboard a Lagoon 450 for four years and calls it a room you can’t imagine living without — excellent sightlines to both sides at the helm, full bimini shade over the entire helm station, and enough seating that the current owners have had ten people up there at once.
Prepared for a circumnavigation that didn’t happen
The owners bought this boat intending to sail around the world, and outfitted her accordingly before plans changed. Sails, rigging, cushions and the electrical system have all been replaced or upgraded in recent years — all cockpit, forward and flybridge cushions have been redone — and the bulkheads were proactively reinforced to build the boat stronger for offshore work.
Power is a full Victron setup: more than 1,300 amp hours of lithium batteries feeding a 5,000-watt Quattro inverter that runs the whole ship, with MPPT solar controllers and a Cerbo for remote monitoring from anywhere with an internet connection.
Where she sits in the market
Lagoon 500s trade in a narrow, patient market. Over the past 24 months YachtSite has recorded five sales at a median of $399,900, with a median of roughly 265 days on the market — a reminder that these boats find specific buyers rather than fast ones.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| Sold, last 24 months | 5 |
| Median sold price | $399,900 |
| Median time to sell | ~265 days |
| Active listings | 4 |
| Asking range | $385,000–$525,000 (median $467,500) |
| Inquiries, last 30 days | 4 (vs 4 prior 30) |
| Median sold (last 24 mo) | $399,900 | |||
| Median active asking | $467,500 |
The Cruisers Company backs the video with a 360° tour that lets buyers walk the decks and even open the mechanical lockers before booking flights. As Amber puts it: “Pivot is a fantastic boat. She’s ready for a new family, another adventure.”