Leopard 50 For Sale, a Broker's Guide to Prices and Versions

The Leopard 50 for sale market in 2026

If you are hunting for a Leopard 50 for sale, timing is on your side. Leopard built 246 of them under its own badge and as the Moorings 5000 between the 2018 launch and 2025, when the yard unveiled the Leopard 52 at the Cannes Yachting Festival. With production closed and charter fleets cycling their five-year boats out, supply on the brokerage market is the healthiest it has ever been.

Recent asking prices tell the story. Ex-Moorings boats from 2019 to 2021 have listed between about $629,000 and $725,000 in Tortola and Saint Martin, while privately owned 2019 and 2020 boats in Florida ask $799,000 to $849,000. A 2022 owner's version with 80 hp Yanmars, a 9 kW generator and 1,875 watts of solar was listed at $1,149,000. That is a $500,000 spread for the same hull, and nearly all of it comes down to charter history and equipment.

For context, SAIL quoted a $629,900 base price in 2018, and Cruising World's test reported $850,000 for an East Coast delivered boat and $899,000 for the fully equipped Moorings 5000 charter version. Well-optioned private boats crossed $1 million new, so a clean ex-charter boat today can cost less than its original sticker.

What Simonis Voogd built into the hull

The Leopard 50 measures 50 feet 6 inches overall, 48 feet 11 inches on the waterline, 26 feet 5 inches wide and draws 5 feet 3 inches. Light displacement is 45,415 pounds. Robertson and Caine infuse the hull with isophthalic resin over E-glass and end-grain balsa, use carbon fiber ring frames to stiffen the structure, and fill the stub keels with closed-cell foam so a grounding does not flood the hull.

Like other Leopards it uses stepped hulls, narrow at the waterline and flared above it to gain cabin width. The near-plumb bows put almost all of the overall length in the water, which helps explain the steady 9 knots Cruising World saw on a beam reach in about 15 knots of wind. The delivery crew on an early hull covered 52 days from South Africa via Brazil and Tortola to Florida and reported reeling off 17 knot bursts on autopilot.

50L flybridge lounge versus the standard deck

Leopard offered the boat with a raised helm and, on the 50L (lounge) version, an optional flybridge on top of the hardtop bimini with a U-shaped couch, table and sunpads, reached by stairs on the starboard side. Cruising World measured 6 feet 8 inches of clearance under the boom on the lounge deck. For anchoring life in the Bahamas or Caribbean it is the most used space on the boat, and owners consistently rate it their favorite spot for 360 degree views.

The trade-off is weight aloft and windage. If you are buying for frequent ocean passages, a boat without the lounge is slightly better behaved. If you entertain, the 50L is easier to resell. Either way the forward cockpit remains, reached through a watertight door at the front of the saloon, with a large table and U-shaped settee to port.

• Helm raised to starboard with all lines led to it
• Watertight door from saloon to forward cockpit
• Optional lifting dinghy platform at the stern
• Whitewashed oak veneer interior that avoids varnish maintenance

Owner's version, Moorings 5000 and six cabin charter boats

Most private boats are four cabin owner's versions. The master suite takes nearly two-thirds of the starboard hull with a dressing area and large ensuite, a VIP cabin with its own shower sits forward on the same side, and two guest cabins with private heads fill the port hull. A forward port cabin can be fitted with washer and dryer hookups or used as crew quarters.

The Moorings 5000 charter configuration typically runs five or six cabins with up to six heads, which makes it a strong earner but a less private home. Cruising World judges named the Moorings 5000 the best charter boat in their 2019 Boat of the Year awards. When comparing listings, count the heads as well as the cabins, because a five head boat carries more plumbing to maintain.

The galley runs along two counters with a Miele four-burner cooktop, Force 10 oven and Vitrifrigo drawer refrigeration, and it faces both the saloon and the aft cockpit.

Numbers from tests and an owner with 14,000 miles

Cruising World sailed the boat off Fort Lauderdale on a beam reach in about 15 knots and saw a steady 9 knots with a 10.4 knot puff. SAIL pushed upwind in 17 knots and a lumpy Gulf Stream sea, recording 7 knots at 45 degrees apparent and 9 to 10 knots at 60 degrees. Under power the test boat with optional 80 hp engines made almost 9 knots at 2,500 rpm.

An owner who has logged more than 14,000 miles since a September 2021 delivery reports 7.7 knots at 40 degrees apparent in 20 knots of breeze and a ride in 30 knots and 9 foot seas that he compared to a bulldozer through marshmallow fluff. He skipped the optional square-top main after hearing other owners call it finicky, and credits feathering Maxprops with close to an extra knot under sail.

Energy, engines and the upgrades that matter

Standard power was twin 57 hp Yanmars with saildrives and a 9 kW Northern Lights generator was a common option. Tankage is 243 gallons of diesel and 185 gallons of water, so a watermaker is essential for long-term cruising. The long-term owner above uses 13 to 18 kWh a day at anchor, gets 4 to 5 kWh from solar and runs the generator every other day.

His upgrade list is a good template for any buyer: a 1,800 Ah lithium bank, a second factory 3,000 watt inverter plus a 5,000 watt Victron Quattro for 240 volt loads, dedicated 20 amp galley circuits because the single factory breaker tripped daily, Starlink, and a Mantus bridle for the anchor. He would skip the roughly $50,000 lifting dinghy platform, which he found heavy for little benefit, and the built-in ice maker.

Annual costs for a 26-foot-wide cat

With 26 feet 5 inches of beam, the Leopard 50 fits few standard slips in the US. Expect to pay for an end tie or a dedicated catamaran berth, and check that your local yard has a travel lift wide enough before you buy. Insurance on a $750,000 hull with Caribbean or Florida coverage, a full-time slip, haul and bottom paint, and engine and generator service put a realistic yearly budget at $60,000 to $110,000 before any refit work.

Leopard has added a dedicated warranty department in recent years, which owners of late hulls have praised. Ex-charter buyers should negotiate a fresh survey of every through-hull, the saildrive seals and the rig, because five years in charter is the equivalent of fifteen years of private use for many components.

How the Leopard 52 changes the value equation

The Leopard 52 that replaced this boat at Cannes in September 2025 uses a refined Simonis Voogd hull to reduce pitching, a taller mast with 17 percent more upwind sail area and seven layout options from three to six cabins. New 52s will cost substantially more than any used 50, which should keep late-model Leopard 50 values firm.

For a buyer, that means a 2022 to 2024 privately owned Leopard 50 is the sweet spot: modern systems, the improved warranty support of later hulls, and a price well below a new 52.