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Excess Sailboats

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Model ↕Listings ↓Year Built ↕LOA (ft) ↕Beam (ft) ↕Draft (ft) ↕Disp. (lbs) ↕Hull ↕Designer ↕Rig ↕Keel ↕
Excess 11103 for sale202037.17 ft21.62 ft3.77 ft19,842 lbsCatamaranVPLP DesignFractional SloopTwin
Excess 1480 for sale202245.83 ft25.82 ft4.86 ft28,219 lbsCatamaranVPLP DesignFractional SloopTwin
Excess 1224 for sale201938.52 ft22.08 ft4.43 ft22,708 lbsCatamaranVPLP DesignFractional SloopTwin
Excess 1521 for sale201948.43 ft26.35 ft4.59 ft40,565 lbsCatamaranVPLP DesignFractional SloopTwin
Excess 1316 for sale202550.2 ft23.79 ft4.86 ft23,369 lbsCatamaranMarc Lombard Design Group/Eric LevetFractional SloopTwin
Excess 11 Hybrid1 for sale—0000————

Excess sailboats: a sailing-first catamaran line built inside France's largest boatbuilder

Excess is Groupe Beneteau's catamaran brand for sailors who want more helm feedback than a comfort-first cruising cat typically offers. Groupe Beneteau -- the same group that builds Lagoon -- unveiled Excess at the Dusseldorf boat show in 2018, and the first models reached buyers the following year. The brand has been explicit about its positioning from the outset: no Excess model, current or future, will carry a flybridge, a deliberate move to keep the focus on sailing performance rather than maximizing cruising volume. Excess also runs an online forum called the Excess Lab, where the builder engages directly with sailors to gather feedback on design decisions.

Origins and ownership

Groupe Beneteau, parent company of Lagoon, built Excess to occupy what the company judged to be a gap in the catamaran market: a line with more sailing engagement than typical charter-oriented cats. Documented production of the Excess 11 and 14 takes place at a shipyard in Le Poiré-sur-Vie, in France's Vendée region -- one of Groupe Beneteau's largest facilities, according to an independent account of the yard. Excess's own account of that shipyard credits everyone from its design office through to final delivery for the boats built there.

The designers

Excess's first generation was created with the VPLP naval architecture team, exterior styling from Patrick Le Quément, and interiors from Nauta Design. VPLP's Vannes office, which normally works on race boats, ran a full Finite Element Analysis of the Excess 14's structure, and naval architect Vincent Lauriot Prévost pushed for deeper, thinner keels than the fat, low-aspect keels typical of cruising multihulls. A second generation began with the Excess 13, where Marc Lombard Yacht Design Group -- naval architect Eric Levet, with Henri-Paul Shipman carrying out extensive work refining the hull topsides -- took over naval architecture, working alongside Jean-Marc Piaton, who began the 13's interior design process with interviews meant to identify and understand the spirit of the brand. The 13 premiered at the International Multihull Show in spring 2025, where it was voted Multihull of the Year in the show's IMS Premiere category.

Construction through the eras

Excess builds its hulls using vacuum-infused construction with balsa coring in the deck and in the hull above the waterline. The Excess 11 was built in three vacuum-infused sections and stands out as the line's first hull built entirely from scratch, rather than adapted from existing Lagoon tooling. The newer Excess 13 introduced a deck-manufacturing process the builder calls "infujection," combining vacuum infusion and resin injection to keep the sandwich deck as light as possible, and uses 35mm-thick PET foam sandwich structures for the aft-cabin ringframe sections.

Lines and generations

Excess's first two models, the 12 and 15, were built on adapted Lagoon 40 and Lagoon 50 hull tooling, respectively; VPLP cut roughly a ton of weight from the Excess 15 by lightening interior fixtures and eliminating the flybridge deck carried by the equivalent Lagoon. The Excess 11 broke from that approach as the line's first purpose-built hull, and Yachting World later judged the follow-on Excess 14 "a step forward" compared with the Lagoon-derived 12 and 15. Excess itself frames the Excess 13 as the start of a second generation, following a VPLP-led first generation that included the 11, 12, 14, and 15.

Who Excess is for

Excess suits sailors who want catamaran living space without giving up sailing feedback -- buyers who would otherwise be choosing between a monohull and a flybridge-equipped cruising cat. Because the brand is young, that story is still mostly told through engineering choices rather than decades of production history, and it was only with the Marc Lombard-designed 13, in Yachting World's assessment, that Excess achieved what the magazine called "a fresh approach and identity."

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Frequently asked questions

01Are Excess sailboats good boats?+
Reviewers have tracked real movement across the line. Yachting World called the Excess 14 'a step forward' from the Lagoon-derived 12 and 15, and judged that only with the Marc Lombard-designed Excess 13 -- a change of designers for the brand's mid-range fifth model -- did Excess achieve what the magazine called 'a fresh approach and identity.' That 13 was also voted Multihull of the Year in the IMS Premiere category at the International Multihull Show.
02What type of boats does Excess build?+
Excess builds sailing catamarans exclusively, spanning the 11 up through the 15 with the 13 as its newest model. The brand, built by Groupe Beneteau alongside sister brand Lagoon, has stated that no Excess model, present or future, will carry a flybridge -- a deliberate choice to keep the focus on sailing feel rather than cruising volume.
03Are used Excess sailboats easy to find?+
Excess is a young brand -- Groupe Beneteau unveiled it at the Dusseldorf boat show in 2018, with the first models reaching the water the following year -- so its used-boat population is inherently smaller than that of longer-running catamaran builders. Buyers should expect fewer direct comps and should pay close attention to which design generation a given hull belongs to.
04What should buyers inspect on a used Excess catamaran?+
Independent reviews of more than one model have flagged the same two areas: how easily the accordion-style sunroof lets crew tuck away the mainsail and reefing lines once it's dropped, and how accessible engine-bay components are given how far forward the engines and their ancillaries are mounted. Because the range spans two structurally different hull generations, confirming which generation a boat belongs to is also worth doing before a survey.
05Which Excess models should buyers compare?+
The clearest comparison runs along design generation rather than size alone: the 12 and 15 share adapted Lagoon 40 and Lagoon 50 hull tooling, the 11 and 14 were built from scratch under VPLP, and the 13 is the first model from the newer Marc Lombard-led design team. Deciding which generation fits before comparing individual sizes tends to be the more useful first step.