This picture is also not in Hout Bay!
We are fortunate to see many yachts of all sizes enter Hout Bay,South Africa, where I live. One of the largest,if not the largest, happens to be a yacht designed by Laurent Giles and launched in 1963,she was a ground breaker at the time,light weight and fast,faster than expected I remember,she is of course a wooden yacht.
Length Overall (m): 34.10 Length Overall (ft): 111.88
Length On Deck (m): Length On Deck (ft):
Length Waterline (m): Length Waterline (ft):
Beam (m): 5.80 Beam (ft): 19.03
Draught Max (m): 3.25 Draught Max (ft): 10.66
Draught Min (m): Draught Min (ft):
Built by Wm,Osbourne and sons
Blue Leopard – A personal perspective by John Duffy
Designed by Jack Giles, Blue Leopard was built in Littlehampton, U.K. in 1963. The brief was to produce a gentleman's yacht with a combination of unique features, which would make her lightweight, fast and easily handled by a small crew. With a double diagonal planked hull and an aluminium deck and superstructure, for her years she was a triumph in yacht design, the perfect blend of sail and power, capable of astonishing speed under power yet equally fast under sail. At 112 feet she has a surprisingly narrow beam of 19 foot. The twin Rolls Royce diesels are capable of taking her to almost the same speed under power as under sail.
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