How We Converted Our Leopard 45 Charter Boat Into Our Home, E20 

I love this video. The personality of this couple makes it seem like the fun neighbors that you would want to hang with on the weekend or call if you needed help. The communication was real and genuine

I can’t believe I’m just finding your channel.

Perhaps the most realistic live aboard yacht video I have watched.

Great video, the first one I've seen, will be watching the rest of your videos, thanks.

Love this!!! We go back and forth about adding it. When we’re sailing im thinking about doing laundry lol but it’s true. You guys have a lot of energy. Love the video.

Excellent job of turning a boat into your real home.

Just found your channel. I also subscribe to several other sailors on you tube. I Lived aboard a 50 foot ferro Cement ketch with my dad when I was in high school for four years. He always planned to sail the world but never happened , but we sailed the great Lakes and had the boat for 35 years. I’ve Chartered out of the Bvi’s out of Tortola four times with Conch charters over an 18 year span. Twice with my dad before he passed and twice with my husband and friends. Unfortunately I don’t get to sail much in my life right now but love watching you guys and all the sailors on RU-vid. I’ve raced in the great lakes including the Port Huron to Mackinac once in 2000. We sail on our friends 38 foot hunter on Lake Huron on occasion. We also try to do a day sale on 140 foot tall ship and grand traverse Bay went we can get up there. Any little bit of sailing I can get in my life I will take it. Lol. Counting the months until our next charter. My husband loves sailing as well. Watching you guys really gives me incentive to get busy making our next sailing trip. Lol. 😊. We’ve always chartered bareboat with our friends but are thinking about having a captain and crew next time or chartering with private owners. Just the two of us or maybe with one other couple. My husband’s had two knees replaced and we can get around on the boat pretty good and be a decent crew , but not sure we could do what you guys are doing alone. Would love to buy a boat and put it into charter service and sail on it whenever we have the opportunity and maybe I should look into that at some Point. I’m 58 and my husbands 70.... he just retired and I am planning on retiring possibly in the next two years. Watching others do this really makes you see what’s possible. Take care and keep the wonderful videos coming.

awesome job on the conversion..and also on the video. Thanks

Nice job. Laundry room on a sailboat is unusual, but I think it was a great add. People often forget that when boats becomes your home, you truly need to consider some items like a laundry area.

I just happen to find y'all in the wee hours of the morning as I was skimming through trying to find something to watch being I was unable to see. I saw your title "How we converted our Leopard...." So I added it to my watch list and I glad I did. I really like what y'all had done to your home. As a young kid my grandmother would tell me the stories of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and I've always dreamed of building meself a Shanty boat and just live out on a lazy river. Well I'm pushing 70 hard and my Shanty Boat is still docked in my dreams and imagination I've had a many of adventures on it in my mind. I sure can tell you all about my awesome adventures that I've had like they happened in real life, but in the end their all just fictional stories but it's fun telling the stories like if they were nonfiction... LOL And now in my golden years I lay here thinking back of all the miles that I've travel crossed our great country on two wheels and camped beside a many of rivers. My tent is the closest I've gotten to a Shanty Boat but as I would lay there looking up at the stars on those HOT bug infested nights camped beside a river I'd tell my two best friends (me and myself) = BFFs about all the adventures I've had on my Shanty Boat floating down the river. Yea they loved to hear the stories night after night, Then morning came and we'd all pack up camp or I should say that I packed up camp those two me and myself would just stand there and watch as I packed everything on the bike and made ready to put another couple hundred on the my motorcycle, It was a tight fit the three of us on one bike I always made room for them I'd never leave those two behind. Just because they're my BFFs they may be lazy and annoying at time but God and them is all I got to talk to as the miles past by all day long... LOL... Well I've rambled on long enough for this time. So again thanks for a great video that I really enjoyed watching. Until next time you kids be blessed in Jesus name... BBE...

Excellent

Great video. Thank you!

Very Nice sailors 🙏👏👏🙌🇧🇷

Great video

Excellent idea on your forward cabin conversion! The cabinets look as if they were right from the factory.

Looks like a beautiful life. Loved it! Thank you.

Beautiful! Your laundry room/closet/utility room is a dream!

A Dream and it will always be. Thank's for sharing.

EXCCELENT VIDEO. THANKSSS

It's nice to see someone else who wanted a utility room!! Great video, and very nice updates! Smooth seas to you both.

Just ran across your channel today for the first time. The Leopard 45 is what we want to eventually sail as well. We’re on a 4-7 yr plan b-4 we take off…brilliant storage!

Super guys! Hope you are enjoying yourselves over there. Thanks for the boat tour!

You guys did some awesome upgrades. Cutting hole in wall for food storage access. And Utility room so smart!!!!

Awesome couple you guys rock. Love the total idea of water floating life. Enjoy the details you guys put into your passion, BEAUTIFUL spot to float, enjoy guys. Definitely will sub to the channel.

What beautiful people that RU-vid brought just me to! Subscribed

Хорошая работа. Все сделано с любовью

Thank you for the thorough tour of you home and explanations of the upgrades and enhancements.

My first episode with you guys and it was great! Thanks for walking us through. Your home is amazing, and you inspire this Indiana boy to spend some time over blue water!

Hello! We are a family of three that just purchased a leopard 45 to start the same adventure as you. I really love all the additions that you have made to your boat and if possible I would like to discuss it with you to learn a little bit more if you agree of course! Thank you so much!

Amazing job on the conversion. So much detail!! Great laundry room and the pantry idea is a game changer. Major props!!!

Very informative and educational. Thank you captain.

Awesome review and tour! I love following your voyage. Hope to see you when you return. Stay safe! Wishing you fair winds and following seas!

Thanks for the walk through and great advice! Happy sails!

Love the boat and all that you have done

Ship shape!

liked because you replaced your Mainsheet to match your eyes! 👁 Love it ❤️⛵️🥰

I like you dual focus on the full cockpit enclosure: comfort and especially safety (haven't heard before the argument that the enclosure stops ppl "run" out without thinking, but it makes sense)

Thank You...Really enjoyed your video. Beautiful Re-fit....1st timer on your site but will now start at the beginning and live vicariously through your dream/reality. Too old for my reality...wish I had started earlier. Rock On You Two. Lachium

Love you two--clear informative and fun thank you

Kent at ‘Just Catamaran’ could easily cut that hamper down to a smaller size & add you a drawer above it.

First timer, I enjoyed your video, and I finally found some sailors that are closer to my age. You guys really did a lot of customizations, I'll bet Just Catamarans likes you guys. I haven't gotten a chance to check out all of your videos yet, but I'll get caught up. Thanks and fair winds.

You guys are awesome! Thanks for the really cool tour of your boat. Hope to meet you guys someday. Cheers!

Super vlog guys, thank you very much for such detailed tour of you beautiful cat 🤗👌

Really nice work guys! Thank you so much.

I am impressed! Great use of space and it’s all to your needs...very cool. Your only missing one thing...the back davit for the Harley. Okay, I see a how to pack clothes DYI video coming up. Cheers from white rock bc Canada...cheers

Great use of space in the starboard forward cabin!

Muy bueno !!!! Me gustaron mucho todas las modificaciones que realizaron.

You made a lot of creative upgrades. Thanks for sharing.

You guys did an awesome job! A price break down would of made this video Epic though.

Great video! Love your utility room!! This will be our next boat! We are getting ready to cruise south from Georgian Bay Ontario Canada on our Hunter 410 that we have had for 12 years and will start cruising on her then will see how it goes and switch to a cat later! Great name and logo! Hope to follow along on your journey

Very cool! We've been following your travels since you left St Pete when we were across from you taking our 103/104 class. Counting down the days til we have a boat of our own and can head to that beautiful turquoise water! ❤️

Just found you. Former yacht Captain, I enjoyed every moment of this video🎉 ..... Hubs left for his Mets baseball game. Sigh .... what are you going to do? 🤷 Anyway ..... love talking the nuts and bolts of a boat. Thanks for the memories.👍😃

Thanks for the information, I also think that the electronic part is not boring so please keep learning and teaching thanks...

Very well done video, lovely home you have there. Great ideas for any long haul sailors. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed

Great job. Tip: you can add a Bluetooth GPS and your non-cellular iPad will connect to provide the GPS info to Navionics app. Question: can your Inreach provide weather data to PredictWind? Info: It’s not the cleanliness of the sea water flush that determines if it stinks - it’s the little marine creatures (e.g. plankton) that die in the hoses and decay from the anaerobic bacteria.

We miss U and U. 💘😻💜💛💚 Early & Stitches

Nice! One of the complaints about a charter designed boat is the storage have been optimized for 1 or 2 weeks at best. I love your utility room idea. Subbed to show my support for the big-boobed statue!

Love the thought/anticipation you've done to be prepared for any/all future events both known and unknown. (taking ownership proactively) .. .. .. Efficiency and Safety and Convenience and Creature Comforts. Electronics/Backup Electronics for safety. Your Pantry is one example of convenience. The Feathering props an example of efficiency. Laundry & Closet area for Creature Comforts/Daily Living - making the workload a bit lighter. I would be Highly surprised if several of your ideas were not Permanently Adopted by Catamaran Manufacturers. Good Job, you two! (Got distracted by a phone call or two and a couple of text messages -- missed what you may have presented for engine/power and sails.)

Just watched your vid, great tour of your boat/home….. you had mentioned that your original iPad doesn’t have cell service so it doesn’t track you, might I recommend getting a “DualGPS receiver”. I use it for my iPad navigation (INavX). It’s a rechargeable wireless satellite receiver that connects to your iPad or iPhone via Bluetooth and makes it so you don’t need to use cell service on your device. Happy sailing, it’s great to see people out there living their dreams…….

Thank you for this presentation. Very interesting.👍

Nice video as usual. Would love for you guys to make a video about boat/cruising insurance. Yes or no insurance, pitfalls, costs, restrictions, benefits, etc. I know the costs increase exponentially when docked vs cruising and also depending on the area, but a good overview with some specifics would be awesome.

Awesome video....enjoyed watching....

wow I loved the ideas ... just need a boat now lol

Very informative.

Thank you this was very helpful.

Thx a lot for those videos

Just found your channel, and I will follow you! Great couple and good videos.

Great video. 👏

great Vid, really made me think about a charter version insted of a owners cat, many thanks

beautiful boat! Come visit Paraty - Rio de Janeiro! Cheers

This is my first view! I guess youtube dropped it into my feed as my wife and I enjoy Gone with the Wynns. I really enjoyed your laid back and no nonsense walk through! I'm wondering why some of your more ingenious ideas like the laundry room and the pantry doors don't wind up on Options Lists for manufacturers or outfitters. They seem so logical!

Great tour guys. Love your beautiful home. ❤️

Nice

i think it maybe ikich is short for I-Kitchen , love the boat perfect size for a couple

someday you will have starlink for your boat. no more wondering when you will have internet access next.

Lovely video.

bad elf gps tracker can be used to sync to the non cellular iPad to allow it to get gps,

Thanks for doing this video. You have a lot of good ideas! Can you talk more about your fresh/salt water head set up? Or if you address this in another video, which one? Thanks a lot. Look forward to following you.

Great video, just don't like shades which hide your eyes!

nice made like it 👌

I loved the laundry room. If you do not mind me asking, what did that conversion cost?? That changed the game on that boat and added so much storage! More than one "free" Just Catamaran bag worth I am sure.

TBH, I usually get bored by "in depth tours" of live aboards. Ya'll aren't boring. Lots of good info, presented well. THX...however I was looking forward to a COMPLETE tour of your boat...not just part of it... edit: I'm a jarhead. I learned that the best way to maximize space in your seabag was to roll everything up. If you're careful, you can actually roll up dress uniforms in such a way to maximize space, but to do so without wrinkling your uniforms...just saying...

Mahalia ( spelled correctly ? ) for me, looks very close to Dolly Parton. lol !!!!.

Tons of great ideas that we plan to 'steal'! The first on our list are those 'John steps' to assist in boarding from a slip dock. Will you please share information on where you sourced those with us?

Please do a full tour of your home!😁

@19:09 Do you guys have a video about the John steps? There's about 10 places on the Lagoon 52 that I'd put these to save my poor "office" feet. ;)

You got it all covered. Tools, laundry, communication. All your upgrades. Do you have to do an iPad or can you use non apple? I dumped windows and installed Linux, much better. Not a geek, all software is free, endless choices.

Thanks for the video. Do you have any videos or pictures of the bed removal?

Incredible amount of thought went in to each upgrade, you guys must of had some time on the boat I assume to really figure all of this out. By the way, what year is that? We are after a Leopard 45 but didn't consider a charter boat until seeing this. Would you do a charter boat again if you had to do it all over again? I assume yes as it is a beautiful boat.

That’s excellent! Thanks so much for the detailed information. And for inviting us into your home... it’s beautiful. Saw a number of ideas that I will steal when we finally get onto a boat. Thanks so much. One thing that I wonder about is why Just Cats didn’t use the normal locking latch on the pantry cut away cupboard? Seems like it’s unlikely to open accidentally in a seaway but most have it so why not that new additional one? I’m sure it’s fine as is but just wondering if there is a reason. Anyway, thanks again. Hope you have a lovely time there in that beautiful area. (I just looked at your position from your website. ) Safe passages and following seas.

Can you do a video on the investment of your Leopard, charter numbers, if investment was worth it for you to buy after and live aboard?

Living on a catamaran has become my dream recently. Just curious if there are still lots of bugs / mosquitoes in tropical waters?

Enjoyed the video. Looking for a new bbq, which one is on your rail? Thanks in advance!

Great video. We are doing the same thing but we put the boat in the Moorings charter program a year ago with 4 to go. Made sense for us from a tax standpoint and being able to afford what we wanted. A few questions please. 1. What grill did you go with? 2. On the flooring what manufacturer did you choose and did Just Catamarans install it? After our first few weeks on the boat as owners our feet were torn up from the texture on the fiberglass so flooring will be a must. Any recommendations here appreciated? 3. Did you use ruggable carpets or what did you use? Did you put in the salon as well as the hull hallways? 4. Do you struggle with the back porch table being hard to slide around? We’re thinking of replacing with a teak table where the front and back flip over to allow you to slide down either side. Thoughts? 5. Did you think about refrigeration in the bench where the windlass breaker is located? Would that be possible? Thanks for any help. We hope to meet you guys in person once we can retire to Nomada Caribena full time. Love the videos.

Best Sailing channel! Where do you buy the John step? Please advise

Looks amazing!! My back still hurts looking at the picture of the laundry room shelf!!! 😂 What does the parasail do?? I am guessing it’s not for 🪂? Have fun. Miss you guys.

Love the humor in all your videos. Question about your countertop icemaker. Do you store ice made by this icemaker in the freezer and do the ice nuggets get all stuck together when stored or do they freeze well and stay apart? Also which model did you buy and does it have the self cleaning function? Lastly, where can the sugarscoop "step" be purchased? Thank you.

Will you do a boat tour of your home

Hi, How did you get the washer/dryer into that Laundry space. Are the companion ways /doors and hatches not too narrow? Great renovation- well done Craig

Which video talks about the differences in a crewed moorings boat? I can't seem to find it.