Leopard 46 Electric Drive

Spending 24 Hours on board for a Forever Green Test

Shipyards offering hybrid propulsion systems are promising significantly reduced fuel consumption, silent sailing and intelligent complementarity between sailing and motor sailing... all rather convincing arguments that we wanted to test on the water for 24 hours aboard a Leopard 46 Electric Drive.

Published 26/06/2025

By Emmanuel van Deth

Issue: 202

Published: july / aug. 2025

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Setting out from Saint-Raphaël on France’s Mediterranean coast, we embarked on an unpretentious mini-cruise, where we not only tested a hybrid catamaran equipped with the Joool system (identical to that used by Fountaine Pajot) but also noted the charging and energy consumption. Even the tender – a Highfield 340 E-Propulsion – was electric.

So, did we fire up the generator or not? Find out in our next Forever Green Special Edition #24.

Technical specifications
Builder: Robertson & Caine (South Africa)
Architect: Alexander Simonis
Length overall: 47’6” (14.48 m)
Beam: 24’1” (7.35 m)
Draft: 5’5” (1.65 m)
Sail area: 1,554 sq ft (144.4 m²)
Displacement: 37,940 lbs (17,209 kg)
Motors: 2 x 25 kW
Batteries: 2 x 27 kWh
Fresh water: 185 US gal (700 l)
CE Certification: Category A
Price: € 1,082,500 ex-tax

www.leopardcatamarans.com

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