Everything you ever wanted to know about our new home
After over a year of searching for a blue water sailing catamaran, “Pure Harmonie” appeared on the market. It was a Thursday, and after a video tour of the boat with the owners, we made a full price offer on the spot – even though we were in Colorado and the boat was in Montenegro. We rallied and bought airline tickets for Peter to go see the boat, along with a Marine Surveyor that we had hired from Barcelona, and the boat broker who came from Marseilles, France. The survey turned out well, but with a few items to be addressed (as one would expect with an eleven year old boat – like replacing the standing rigging (the cables that hold the mast up)).
Leopard catamarans are made in South Africa by Robertson and Caine. Ours had gone to Croatia for a few years in charter, followed by a Canadian buyer who renamed it “Legend” and did a lot of custom work on it. After that, another Canadian couple bought the boat and renamed it “Pure Harmonie”. We bought Pure Harmonie and have now renamed it “Flying Fish.” If you know anything about boat renaming, it’s a big deal – mostly for superstitious reasons, but there are also legal steps to take. More on that in another post.
Catamarans have two hulls, two diesel engines, and two rudders. In between all that is a saloon and cockpit that contain the “dining room” and “galley” inside and a back cockpit with lounging space and dining table. This boat is unique since it also has a front cockpit which is a great place to hang out when the view or sun orientation is better from the front. Another great feature with catamarans is the “trampoline” out front which is great for sunning, jumping or hanging out and watching the stars on a clear night. Flying Fish is 12.98 meters long, 7.25 meters wide and has a draft of 1.3 meters. The mast is 68 feet tall.
Each hull has two cabins and two electric “heads” (marine bathrooms) complete with showers. There are also two “coffins” in the front of each hull that technically could be sleeping space for crew or kids, but they’re pretty claustrophobia inducing, so there are shelves built in the port side for tools and spare parts and we store a collection of cushions, a couple of uninflated SUPs and a box of real glass wine glasses in the starboard side. There are a lot of additional hidden storage spaces and we keep discovering things we didn’t know we had like an inflatable kayak, a guitar, a wet/dry vac, a collection of ropes/lines of various configurations, wet suits, and more.
Our cabin is on the port side at the rear of the boat. The back cabins are a little larger and have three windows/hatches for good ventilation. My office is the forward starboard cabin – I chose the cabin as far away from our cabin so my late night zoom calls won’t wake up Sarah. Just like home, there are multiple screens, laptops, mic, green screen – everything except for the comfortable desk chair. The folding chair I’ve been using to date just doesn’t hack it after 8 hours of zooming, but it’s what fits. Sarah’s office in the aft starboard cabin houses her a) sewing machine, fabric, notions and patterns, b) knitting needles, notions, and yarn, and c) watercolor painting supplies. There’s almost room for the extra bedding under the bed and the dehumidifier.
Underneath our bed is a 700 liter diesel fuel tank and our watermaker – an incredibly complicated device that combines a series of filters and membranes with two pumps to produce about forty gallons of fresh water out of sea water every hour. This system works on 220 Volt AC power, so we need to run the generator or have shore power to make it work, but having it is a great luxury since we have something like 780 liters of water storage and that would be a lot to carry from shore by hand. We also have a washing machine/dryer – a wonderful luxury since we don’t have to haul our dirty laundry across the marina and tend to it while it goes through the wash cycles. Or wash anything by hand. A washing machine on board was pretty high on our list of must haves: if the boat hadn’t come with one, we’d have had one installed within a couple of weeks of moving here.
Our galley came fully kitted out with dishes, silverware, utensils, pots and pans, an air fryer, espresso machine, and soda stream. We also have a small fridge and freezer, a gas oven and stovetop. We have augmented this fully equipped galley with a collection of knives, wooden spoons, spices and more that we brought from home. It almost goes without saying that Sarah has a large stash of New Mexican red chile tucked into the freezer.
The boat has heating and air conditioning which is great to have in winter – and will be equally valuable in summer. We’ve never been on a boat when it’s cold out and weren’t even sure if the boat had heating, so it was a pleasant discovery that the AC works as a heat exchanger and can be run to heat up or to cool off the boat. We also found a couple of space heaters in one of the front cabins that can augment the heating as needed. Our favorite addition was our down comforter – Sarah would also add our hot water bottles – which has kept us toasty even on the nights when the temps dipped below freezing.
Many second hand boats come equipped with gear, tools, and basic equipment. But everywhere I look there are things I never expected to be included in any boat we bought, and we’re extremely lucky both with the vessel itself, and the generosity of the former owners.
For the sailing geeks out there, here is a complete list of specs.
Leopard 44 used year 2011
For sale Leopard 44 built by Robertson and Caine in South Africa in 2011.
Her main features include: Air conditionning 16000 BTU, genset northern lights 6Kva, solar panels 1340W, watermaker 40 g p/h installed in 2018, engine
and genset batteries from 2019 and service batteries from 2022, washer dryer LG 7kg from 2019, electronics with Simrad chartplotter, Simrad radar, AIS
from 2019, electrical heads, matress in the owner cabin from 2019, sails from 2014, Dinghy from 2022 and outboard engine 20 hp, full cockpit and helm
enclosures from 2019
Many many upgrades in the last 6 years (see the inventory).
About this model
Ref:: 7505857
Features of Leopard 44 :
Basic data
Type: Catamaran sailboat
Year : 2011
Length: 13.2 m
Location: S. FRANCE (France)
Name: Pure Harmonie
Flag: –
Shipyard: Robertson and Caine
Material: Fibreglass
Dimensions
Beam: 7.14 m
Draft: 1.28 m
Ballast: –
Displacement: –
Capacity
Maximum number of passengers: –
Cabins: 4
Berths: – 6
Heads: – 4
Water capacity: – 780 liters
Multihull
Flybridge
This Catamaran sailboat’s equipment
Accommodation
SLEEP FOR 10 IN FOUR DOUBLE CABINS + 1 CONVERTIBLE SALON + 4 HEADS
Converted forward seaport compartment to a utility room with stowages racks. It can be converted stern to compartment if desired.
2 bedroom fans replaced 2022
AIR CONDITIONING AND HEATING CRUISAR 16 000 BTU WITH TWO UNITS + 12 V FANS IN ALL CABINS + 2 IN THE SALON
WASHER / DRYER LG 7 KG (NEW 2019)
FOREPEAKS CONVERTED IN STORAGE ROOMS WITH SHELVES AND LOCKABLE DOORS (NEW 2018)
GALLEY EQUIPPED WITH
Refrigerator – Vitrifrigo DT series 2 drawer refigerator/freezer bow opening 212l/56gal 12v
Oven – Force 10, 3-burner with grill
Kitchen faucet with carbon water filter (New 2018)
Heads hand tank faucets x 4 ( New 2019)
Electric front – 4 Jabasco electric flush – All assistanced 2019 with 2 fresh Jabsco macerator motors and other fresh parts as necessary
Shower stalls in all quantity, Replaced 2 shower pumps in 2021
Custom foldable blueprint in starboard fore compartment
New mattress in master’s compartment (New 2020)
New living room padding in high condition faux-leather (New 2020)
Rig
SAILS
Fully battened mainsail – Quantum (New 2014)
Furling genoa – Quantum 120% (New 2014)
Easy reefing unit from the helm
Topping lift (New 2020)
Main sheet (New 2018)
ALL LINES COMING BACK TO HELM. NO NEED TO GET OUT OF HELM FOR ANY MANOEUVER
SLOOP RIG
Mast height: 68’ 11”
Sparcarft anodized aluminium mast and boom
Stainless steel wire standing rig
Cored braided line running rigging
Mainsail reefing: Single line slab & Antal mast track
Profurl C420 Headsail roller furling
New furling line (2022)
New reef lines plus modify blocks to make both reefs single line from the cockpit, changed reef 1 & 2 to single line reefing including fresh 12mm reef lines
(2022)
Machinery
ENGINES
2 X YANMAR 3JH5E 39 HP DIESEL
3200 H
Both engines and outboard professionals assistanced in 2021, last assistanced in 2022
2 fresh 3 blade props 2022
Sail navigate SD50 – Serviced with fresh anodes and seals on both sail navigate (replaced May 2022)
Fresh water with heat exchanger cooling unit
ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT
220V electrical circuit
Victron Energy SmartSolar MPPT 100V/50A Charge Controller X 2 in parallel (New 2019)
Inverter 2200W pure sine wave (New 2018)
Shore potential inlet 30A x2 (with adapters for different plug styles and a splitter (New 2020)
Battery charger 40 A
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Service batteries : 3 X 200 ah (2022)
Engine batteries : 2 X 105 AH (New 2019)
Generator charger : 1 X 105 AH (New 2019)
Alternator: Hitachi 12v 80amp
GENERATOR NOTHERN LIGHTS 6KVA (1885 H)
SOLAR PANELS WITH 1340 W NEW 2019 (4 X 335 W BENG SUN FORTE MONOCRYSTALLINE HARD PANELS)
WATER
Hot and chilly pressurised water – (2) Hot water cylinders 45L / 12gal
WATERMAKER CRUISE RO 40GPH (NEW 2018) WITH NEW FILTER IN 2022
Bridge
LEOPARD 44 BUILT BY ROBERTSON AND CAINE IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 2011 AND COMMISSIONED IN MAY 2011
Designer: Morelli and Melvin
Canadian flag – VAT not paid
LOA:——————— 42 ft 7 in (12.98m)
LWL: ——————– 41 ft 8 in (12.7m)
Beam: ——————-23 ft 9 in (7.25m)
Maximum Draft:——- 4 ft 2 in (1.3m)
Displacement: ———27880 lbs
Fresh Water Tanks:- 3 (780 L)
Fuel Tanks: ———– 2 (700 L)
Holding Tanks: ——- 2 (100 L) Replaced with polypropylene tanks and all fresh pipes (2019)
New bottom paint 2022
Wax and polish whole vessel
Inventory
ELECTRONICS
Simrad NSS09 Evo3 GPS/ChartGPS (New 2019)
New navionics charts for GPS (2022)
Simard 4G Radar (New 2019)
Simrad ForwardScan Sonar (New 2019)
Autopilot – ST6002
Wind velocity and navigation – ST60+
Depthsounder – ST70
Compass Plastimo Contest 130
Emtrak AIS Class B Sailor Package with B100 AIS & S100 Splitter (New 2019)
Tri-Data (Depth, True velocity, Water temp) DST8
Basic Technical Data
Shipyard: Robertson and Caine
Model: Leopard 44
Year of manufacture: 2011
Type of boat: Catamaran sailboat
Construction material: Fibreglass
Displacement: 12615 Kg
Length: 12,98 m
Beam: 7,25 m
Draft: 1,2 m
See the full specifications of the Leopard 44