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Blue Leopard was built for Mr Desmond Molins, who invented the cigarette roller, and who wanted a yacht that would be as fast under power as under sail. She was to be easily driven, shallow of draught, and handled by a small crew. She takes her name from the fact that her owner was contacted by a smuggler offering to sell him snow leopard pelts. Her logo is a leaping Leopard. Check out: www.yachtingworld.com/supersail/features/343466/blue-leopard for an account of her first Circumnavigation. |
| Name: | Blue Leopard |
| Class: |
Ketch |
| Designer(s): |
Jack Laurent Giles |
| Type of Boat: | Bermudan Ketch |
| Year Built: | 1963 |
| Built by: | William Osborne |
| LOA m / ft: | 34.07m / 111'77" |
| LOD m / ft: | / |
| LWL m / ft: | 26.18m / 85'9" |
| Beam m / ft: | 5.79m / 19' |
| Draft m / ft: | 2.90m / 9'5" |
| Yard No: | |
| Sail Stats: | Sail Area: 325 sq.m |
| Construction: |
Four skins of planking, two of Honduras cedar sandwiched between two of Honduras mahogony which are laid on light steamed timber supports supported by a number of stringers. The deck is a box girder, of two plywood layers separated by stringers and with the spaces filled in with foam plastics, on top is 3/8th" laid teak planking in which the seam compound is of a blue to match the hull. The build was overseen by Jack Hilless who cast the two Leopard figures in gun metal and had them plated. These are positioned either side of the bow. |
| Other: | Design No: 430 |
