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The 2000 Leopard 38 Catamaran TAKES TWO is ready to travel anywhere with her fresh bottom paint and everything needed to be comfortable for weekend sailing or for full-time cruising in the Bahamas. She has three staterooms each with a double berth, two heads, two showers, and the owner cabin is private and full length of the starboard hull. Unique to this Leopard 38 is direct drive engines with shafts and propellers, not sail drives. The propellers have been upgraded to 3-Blade Folding Props for faster speeds and better handling. She also had the transom sugar scoops extended by two feet for easier boarding access. All the necessary cruising gear is here including new 2023 WM 12' rigid inflatable dinghy and davits, 15hp Nissan outboard, solar panels, fresh water maker, and two new air conditioners. Come look her over and see if she isn't just right for your cruising plans.
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Additional Information
Standing Rigging Replaced in 2017
New B&G Electronics in 2020
New Bottom Paint 2025
New Sails 2022
Solar Array charges a Large Lithium Battery Bank to power a high-output watermaker and new in 2024…2-12V A/C Units
Bimini Top
Lazy Bag and Lazy Jacks for Mainsail
Propane Grill with Mount
Hot/Cold Cockpit Shower
Cockpit Table
Outboard Engine Bracket
Swim Ladder
Wheel Steering
Electric Anchor Windlass
Furling Genoa, Full-Batten Mainsail, Spinnaker
Inverter
Shore Power Inlet
Autopilot
CD Player with Cockpit Speakers
Compass
DVD Player
Depthsounder
GPS Plotter with Radar, Speed, Depth, Wind
TV Set
VHF Radio
Radar Detector
Battery Charger
Freezer/Refrigerator
Electric Bilge Pumps
Electric Heads
Microwave Oven
Induction Cooktop
Propane Stove/Oven is available
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
Owner and Manufacture Comments
Takes Two is a tried and true blue water sailing catamaran. Her initial journey took her from South Africa to La Paz, Mexico, where she stayed in a dry West Coast climate until 2020. She then came eastbound, traversing the Panama Canal in 2020 – and has sailed the deep Caribbean and Bahamas since. This vessels current owners (since 2003) have kept meticulous maintenance logs, which clearly show their level of care and commitment to maintaining this boat up to her present condition.
This Leopard 38 has a U-shaped galley and dinette. Eight adults and two kids will find ample living and sleeping room. In the three-cabin owner’s layout, the port hull is identical to the Leopard 38 charter version, but the starboard hull has a large living area and a huge forward head and separate shower.
The 38 cockpit is spacious with seating for eight around the table and a huge cool box with lid. This molding doubles as a seat – with a swinging backrest that allows it to be oriented facing forward or aft. Leopard has obviously put a lot of thought into the design of the walkthrough helm station.
The cockpit roof is open above the station, but a fabric panel zips in place to provide weather and sun protection. This station is well designed with access steps from the cockpit to a two-seat padded bench behind the wheel. All controls and instruments are arrayed within easy view and reach of the helmsperson.
The Leopard 38 is built with the latest resin-infusion techniques, using balsa-cored hull and deck laminates, E-glass stitched fabric and isothalic resins with NPG gelcoat. The hull and lower bridgedeck structure is molded as a unit; the bulkheads are glassed in place; and the monocoque deck and coach house molding is lowered into position. This circumferential hull-deck join is bonded, through-bolted, and tabbed to the structural bulkheads.
Below the waterline are sacrificial, mid-hull bolt-on keels that increase draft and provide lateral resistance. A laminated ridge projects from each hull bottom, and the fork-topped keels are through bolted horizontally to this ridge.
The Leopard 38 sports a raked mast. Single swept-back spreaders have upper and lower diamonds, and aft-angled cap shrouds lead to chain plates. A telescopic vang supports the boom, which is aft-sheeted to a roof-top traveler that runs almost full-width and bolts to sturdy roof-support posts. Mainsheet and jibsheets lead to the steering station, and the boat is pre-rigged for a screacher, with turning blocks fitted to the roof.
The Multihull Company is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel though the vessel may be listed with another brokerage company.
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