Kankama said..
..... I once recommended Percy Island Lagoon to a Leopard catamaran owner. It is great I said, you dry out every low tide but you are secure and able to walk all over the island. He told me the cat was not designed to sit on its keels - I was flabbergasted. What is the point of having a cat if you can't sit on the keels. Who designs these stupid boats? Why would anyone buy one?
Pretty much everything involves compromises, perhaps the guy had, say, a family of 4 and would only get buy in for them to come on extended cruises if they all had space?
98% of custom builds are 3 cabin with fully 1/4 of the boat given over to a head, why would you choose to sleep next to someone that snores to have more space that I'd use for less than 10 minutes a day?
Sure, a production build cat is a pretty fragile egg shell but observably strong enough to even circumnavigate carefully if you chose. As to sailing qualities a Leopard isn't horrible from my 2 week charter, considerably better than a Seawind 1000 with bagged out sails. That boat, IMO, in that condition, would be considered unseaworthy as it literally could not make progress to windward in any sea state above millpond !
