A meticulously upgraded four-cabin Lagoon 450F, provisioned in Mazatlán and ready to sail off tomorrow.
Presented by Joshua at Blue Yonder Yachts, S/V Drimorthiles is a 2016 Lagoon 450F that has been lived on, loved on, and steadily improved across 12,000 nautical miles of Pacific Mexico cruising. Her owners spent seven to eight months a year aboard, sailing from Zihuatanejo up into the Sea of Cortez as far as Bahía de los Ángeles, and the boat’s condition reflects that hands-on stewardship — professional maintenance, thoughtful upgrades, and a long list of extras that would take a new owner years to assemble.
The name, incidentally, is a toast: an acronym born of friends aboard raising a glass to drink more, think less. The spirit fits the boat.
Layout and Living Space
This is the ultra-spacious four-cabin, four-head layout — 45 feet long with a 25-foot beam, sleeping up to 12 with forepeak berths. Each of the four staterooms mirrors the others across the hulls: queen berth, private en-suite dry head with separate shower stall, opening portlights, hull windows near the waterline, and individual Dometic air conditioning (five units in total across the boat).
The main salon is where the custom touches really show. The factory countertops in the galley, sideboard, and nav station were professionally replaced with single-cut polished Corian, giving the interior a seamless, upscale finish. The galley now carries a new Force 10 three-burner stove with oven, a stainless single-basin sink, a combo microwave/air fryer/toaster, and an ice maker. A new Isotherm refrigerator drawer joins the built-in Frigonautica and an 88-quart sub-freezer beneath the nav station.
At the nav station sits a brand-new 16-inch Sea-Tronics touchscreen chartplotter, Bluetooth sound controls, a new Icom VHF, and AC controls. Custom curtains, custom companion lighting, and a mounted TV bracket on the sideboard round out a space that clearly has been built for full-time living rather than weekend outings.
On Deck and at the Helm
The 450F’s three-level deck — flybridge, main deck with aft cockpit, and forward deck — makes the most of the cat’s volume. The aft cockpit is enclosed with custom Sunbrella canvas and Eisenglass screens for a bug-free breeze, with a large dinette on port (new cushions), a daybed on starboard, a Magma barbecue, ceiling-mounted fishing rod holders, a propane locker, and a new Isotherm beverage fridge.
Up top, the flybridge helm is protected by a hardtop and matching custom enclosure. Modern B&G instruments are paired with a second new 16-inch Sea-Tronics chartplotter running TimeZero, plus B&G autopilot, new B&G wind gear, Quick windlass control, and an Icom VHF handheld. All sail handling leads back here through manual and electric winches; running rigging was replaced within the last couple of years with the old lines kept aboard as spares.
Sailing, Systems, and Range
Sail inventory is fresh: a Doyle performance mainsail, Doyle offshore tri-radial genoa, an asymmetrical spinnaker, and a Doyle Code Zero, both headsails on roller furlers. Twin 57-hp Yanmar diesels with upgraded SD60 saildrives push her at six-and-a-half to nine knots under power, with a 1,200–1,500 nautical mile range from 274 gallons of fuel.
Energy independence is a real strength here. A seven-panel, 2,500-watt solar array managed by two smart regulators feeds a house bank of five new Victron AGMs installed in 2026; starter and genset AGMs were replaced in 2024. Backup power comes from a Cummins Onan 11 kW generator. A twin-membrane Rainman watermaker — with a stock of spare membranes, motor, and high-pressure line — supports genuinely off-grid cruising.
Other recent work worth noting: all six through-hulls replaced in 2023, two new 850 gph bilge pumps in 2024, four new Lewmar deck hatches in 2024, a rebuilt Quick windlass on a new bow roller with 275 feet of chain and a polished Ultra anchor, a new Furuno NXT radar integrated into TimeZero, and a fresh EPIRB in 2026. Standing rigging was reset and inspected in 2024 after certified bulkhead reinforcements.
What’s Included
This is where Drimorthiles separates herself. The listing includes a 10.5-foot AB dinghy with 15-hp Yamaha, two adventure kayaks on stainless racks, a stand-up paddleboard, a Hookamax 2 hookah dive system wired to the house bank, six Lumitec underwater lights, Gen 3 Starlink, and a deep spares kit — impellers, filters, belts, alternators, heat exchanger rebuild kits, replacement pumps, hatch seals, plus the full kitchen and liveaboard inventory.
Market Context
The Lagoon 450 remains one of the most established mid-size cruising cats on the used market. For context on where this listing sits:
| Lagoon 450 Market | Figure |
|---|---|
| Sold in last 24 months | 39 |
| Median sold price | $430,000 |
| Median days to sell | ~177 |
| Active listings | 19 |
| Asking range | $249,000–$585,000 |
| Median asking | $470,000 |
| Low Ask | $249,000 | |||
| Median Sold | $430,000 | |||
| Median Ask | $470,000 | |||
| High Ask | $585,000 |
Drimorthiles is currently lying in Mazatlán, cruise-ready in every practical sense. For a buyer who wants to step aboard and go rather than spend a season kitting out a boat, this Lagoon 450F makes an unusually strong case.