Hurricane season is the busiest time of year for shipyards across the Caribbean, and Trinidad is no different! At Peake Yacht Services the yard has been a hive ...
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As part of readying our sailboat for a hurricane season of storage in the Trinidad shipyard post haul-out, Tynan went up the mast to bring down the wind ...
Now that our Leopard 45 Catamaran is out of the water and things are more settled, work is well and truly underway. We have lots of boat jobs planned for this ...
Having a medical emergency aboard is something no liveaboard cruiser wants happening on their boat, so when it impacted our catamaran we were lucky to be in ...
The hurricane season is a time where many liveaboard cruisers in the Caribbean region choose to lift their boats out, storing them safely on land. Given the ...
As the Caribbean hurricane season approaches it's time to start heading south! The episode begins with a surprise storm slamming the St Martin anchorage; ...
In a previous video I promised to show the repairs of the crossbeam so here they are. For those of you who have watched before, it not only shows how the ...
A former Robertson & Caine employee shares his experiences of working in the factories. This video and his opinions speak for themselves. Robertson & Caine ...
Crossbeam Cracking, Broken Dry Glass – What Forced Us to the Shipyard | NEW LEOPARD CATAMARAN REVIEW
It's not clickbait, the crossbeam of our Leopard 45 catamaran was cracking out of the hull... WATCH THE REBUILD PROCESS HERE: https://youtu.be/ct0kAWI7h44 We ...
This week I share a warranty issue found down in the port bilge - a crack in the hull above the keel. What's unique about this one? Well it was addressed at ...
This week I round up 5 more warranty issues discovered on our Leopard Catamaran that were worked on during our time in the shipyard in Trinidad. It is all part ...
As part of our 600+ day warranty haul out, all of of the windows on our 45ft Leopard Catamaran were pulled out, the frames repaired and the windows rebed. Many ...
Cracks, Voids, Dry Fiberglass & Damaged Hull Sections – Yes That Bad! | NEW Leopard Catamaran Review
In the next part of our review of buying a new boat from Leopard Catamarans, I address the vertical hull cracks that were present on our bows and transoms. I ...
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Rather than leaving you hanging for a week here's a behind the scenes look at what's going on around SV Liger! → Sneak Peak at the next Leopard Catamaran ...
This is the start of the final Leopard Catamaran and Robertson & Caine new boat buying review series, restrictions are off, it's time to start off with the ...
After 2 months in the water it was time to start cleaning the hull, scraping off what's grown under the waterline in the warm Caribbean waters! We completely ...
Unfortunately Trent and the other side couldn't come to a reasonable agreement in a reasonable time frame. Apparently a partial refund isn't worth their time ...
This week's been short trips off the boat to try and cling to our sanity mixed with days of checking, working and testing. The chain and anchor are the sort of ...
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It is FINALLY time to get this boat back out on the sea! For our first sail we headed north, leaving Trinidad behind and pointing our bow up the Caribbean Sea ...
In order to get our sailboat home ready to explore the Caribbean Sea it was time to reinstall the genoa sail! Nicknamed "the dummy sail" on our boat, it's the ...
In this video we break down what Leopard Catamarans has given us beyond the rectification of warranty and collateral damage on our Leopard 45. While these ...
After launching just before Christmas we dove straight into work, assessing what remained unresolved on our Leopard Catamaran after the extensive warranty ...