By John Burnham Picking up the Pace at Leopard Gino Morelli came to catamaran design as a builder of racing cats, but in recent years has brought his knowledge of performance and technology to the art of designing production cats, notably the new models for Leopard Catamarans, built in South Africa by Robertson and Caine. [...]

By Multihulls World The Moorings and Robertson & Caine, two well-wishing fairies who helped set up the Léopard 62. With two renowned sponsors like this, the catamaran had to become a top class luxury boat. Presented at the Miami show, then the Cannes show, Leopard 62 or Moorings 6200 is the shipyard’s flagship. This catamaran [...]

By BWS Staff The new Leopard 46, which is marketed in the U.S. by The Moorings, takes many of the new design ideas introduced last year in the Leopard 40 and expands them dramatically. Designed by Mevlin & Morrelli, the 46 establishes a whole new look for the Leopard fleet, and by association with The [...]

By Andrew Burton Designed for blue-water cruising, this comfy cat will get you where you’re going in a hurry. The Leopard 46 has the genes of a racer. It’s built in South Africa by Robertson and Caine and was designed by Gino Morelli and Pete Melvin, who drew the record-breaking maxi-catamaran PlayStation. But make no [...]

By Andrew Burton The handsome Leopard 46 has high freeboard, as you’d expect on a cruising cat, but it’s nicely broken up by a chine above the waterline. Above the chine, the hull flares to increase interior volume; below it, the hulls are narrower, which means better speed. We sailed the Leopard in light air, [...]

By Multihulls World The Multihulls World team of testers has dreamt of this for a long time… To be able to carry out extended tests under real cruising conditions, with a boat which is ready to go, all tanks full, loaded with fuel, possessions and a full crew: the boat as you would really use [...]

Can we legitimately contrast a Motor Catamaran and a Sailing Catamaran? At first view, everything about them is opposed, from the means of propulsion to the cruising philosophy. And yet, for a week or a year’s trip in the West Indies, for example, the choice is not so obvious ! A small comparison to help [...]

By Roy Laughlin The Leopard 42 is a blue water cruising catamaran designed for convenient boat handling comfort on the water and reasonable upkeep efforts and costs. It favors none of these exclusively, but is notably successful in each category. For this reason, it is difficult to conveniently characterize it only as a charter design, [...]

By Philippe Echelle Despite their real commercial success in the west indies and the usa, leopard catamarans, from the south african boatyard, Robertson and Caine, are not very well known in europe. With its new 40 footer, ‘the other multihull country’ has associated itself with a heavyweight partner (Moorings) to get a foothold in a [...]

By Multihull World Magazine After the Léopard 40, Robertson & Caine is forging ahead and has just presented the 38, a catamaran which has to meet both the requirements of a charter company (Sunsail) and the demands of the charter clients, as well as those of private owners… A little overview of an intelligently-designed catamaran! [...]