Thursday 9 July 2009

Yacht Blue Leopard

Blue Leopard at at anchor,not in Hout Bay I might add,just check out the lines of this yacht,stunning for sure.

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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