Leopard 48 Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Leopard 48 means looking at a Simonis-Voogd catamaran built by Robertson and Caine, offered both as a private yacht and as the ex-charter Moorings 4800. These are voyaging cats with foam-filled shallow keels and sealed collision bulkheads, so the used-boat conversation is less about baseline structure and more about how a given example was equipped and cared for.
Layouts on the Used Market
Charter four-cabin versions are the more common on the used market, though the three-cabin owner’s layout with a full starboard hull is also available, and ex-charter examples are common. The saloon’s central glass doorway forward is unchanged across layouts, and both versions retain the large transverse aft passage that simplifies dinghy handling and inter-hull movement. Bow crew space is present regardless of cabin count.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Well-found examples commonly carry solar, lithium batteries, an autopilot, a watermaker, air conditioning, an inverter, a chartplotter, and radar — a cluster that speaks to self-sufficient anchoring and passage-making without shore power. Often-seen additions include a washing machine, dinghy davits, electric winches, AIS, a freezer, an asymmetric spinnaker, a cockpit shower, a life raft, and a spinnaker, which together suggest comfort and short-handed sail handling. Less common owner upgrades run to hot water, Starlink, a bimini, a code zero, an EPIRB, and heating. For a buyer, the meaningful questions are whether the energy cluster (solar, lithium, inverter, watermaker) is intact and the canvas and safety items (davits, AIS, life raft) are present and serviced.
What to Inspect
The hulls are vacuum-bagged with a balsa core, so check for any resin regulation or core condition at through-hulls and hatches, and confirm the shallow keels’ closed-cell foam remains sealed against water ingress. Verify the bow and stern sealed bulkheads are intact, since they are the boat’s defense against collision flooding. On deck, confirm the forward cockpit sliding hatch and bow steps operate, and that the flush side-deck hatches and mini bulwarks are sound.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
These cats typically appear in the United States, Greece, Saint Lucia, New Zealand, the British Virgin Islands, and Australia. For a buyer, the short checklist is: confirm layout (four-cabin charter vs. three-cabin owner), verify the core energy and safety equipment are fitted and maintained, inspect keel foam and sealed bulkheads, and confirm the dinghy passage and forward cockpit gear are functional.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Leopard 48. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 17 rows
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25 | 4 | $444,000 | — |
| Apr 25 | 1 | $675,000 | +52.0% |
| May 25 | 2 | $370,000 | -45.2% |
| Jun 25 | 3 | $550,000 | +48.6% |
| Jul 25 | 3 | $550,000 | 0.0% |
| Aug 25 | 1 | $350,000 | -36.4% |
| Sep 25 | 13 | $524,375 | +49.8% |
| Oct 25 | 1 | $469,900 | -10.4% |
| Nov 25 | 5 | $489,416 | +4.2% |
| Jan 26 | 14 | $595,391 | +21.7% |
| Feb 26 | 7 | $299,000 | -49.8% |
| Mar 26 | 3 | $599,000 | +100.3% |
| Apr 26 | 38 | $497,950 | -16.9% |
| May 26 | 8 | $497,500 | -0.1% |
| Jun 26 | 12 | $507,000 | +1.9% |
| Jul 26 | 13 | $546,515 | +7.8% |
| Aug 26 | 22 | $489,000 | -10.5% |
Where they're listed
Leopard 48 listings appear across 16 countries. United States has the most listings with 63 (52.5%), followed by Greece and Saint Lucia.
Country view
120 listings · 16 countries| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $489,000 | 63 | 21 | 52.5% |
| Greece | $546,515 | 16 | 9 | 13.3% |
| Saint Lucia | $517,000 | 8 | 0 | 6.7% |
| New Zealand | $588,502 | 6 | 3 | 5.0% |
| Australia | $624,062 | 5 | 0 | 4.2% |
| British Virgin Islands | $525,000 | 5 | 3 | 4.2% |
| Bahamas | $599,000 | 3 | 0 | 2.5% |
| Colombia | $395,000 | 3 | 0 | 2.5% |
| Malaysia | $495,000 | 3 | 0 | 2.5% |
| Grenada | $675,000 | 2 | 0 | 1.7% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | $495,000 | 1 | 0 | 0.8% |
| Fiji | $495,000 | 1 | 0 | 0.8% |
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