The Laguna 16 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by W. Shad Turner as a day sailer and first built in 1984.
[1][2][3] The design was built by Laguna Yachts in Stanton, California, United States starting in 1981.
The company had bought out Coastal Recreation, Inc of Costa Mesa, California and made it a subsidiary.
It has a masthead sloop rig with anodized aluminum spars and a transom-sheeted mainsheet.
The hull features a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed, shallow-draft fin keel.