Looks nice but I cant get past how all these boats have that big "wind brake" so you can get to the bow..surely it has effect sailing close wind terribly.I've wondered, if you have to have that, why not make it so it folds down when sailing.I cant imagine being in a big sea in open ocean with it like that...a few big waves over the bow and you could be in big trouble..
Looks nice but I cant get past how all these boats have that big "wind brake" so you can get to the bow..surely it has effect sailing close wind terribly.I've wondered, if you have to have that, why not make it so it folds down when sailing.I cant imagine being in a big sea in open ocean with it like that...a few big waves over the bow and you could be in big trouble..
Agreed Mal. At least this one doesn't have the helm right up on the flybridge (my personal pet hate) but it is definitely more suited to trundling around the BVI than crossing oceans.
Everyone stated the forward cockpit would be a disaster at sea when leopard introduced it. In reality there have need zero issues. It drains almost instantaneously if you manage to stuff the bow. The drains are huge. My wife’s one request in the new boat was an interior walk through to the bow with a forward cockpit.Really limits your choices.
The front windows are 12mm perspex specifically designed to conform to ISO 12216 and there is not one report of a failure of the front window from wave impact in the thousands of catamarans Leopard has built with this feature.
The front cockpit is designed to drain in 45 seconds, exceeding ISO 12216 and ABYC standards.
I wouldn't call these the ultimate blue water boats, but they are probably more capable than the putz at the helm about 99% of the time.
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