Leopard 107

The Leopard 107 is thirty metres long and quoted at 35 knots. Those two numbers rarely appear on the same specification sheet, and together they describe the flagship of our fleet: a boat with the accommodation of a large yacht and the pace of a much smaller one. Charters begin at €13,999.

She is also the largest boat we list whose specifications we publish in full. Four cabins, twelve guests, four crew, twin diesels, and a consumption figure of about 850 litres per day. On a boat this size, publishing that last number is unusual and deliberate.

What thirty metres does to a day

It removes every compromise a group normally has to make. Whoever came to sunbathe, whoever came to swim and whoever wants to sit under cover each end up with a part of her to themselves, without having to negotiate for it. She has lounging space indoors and several distinct areas out on deck, so a party of twelve disperses in the first half hour and stays dispersed.

The four crew move between those areas without anybody noticing them work, which is the real measure of a well-crewed day. Drinks appear, the swim ladder is rigged, lunch is laid and cleared, and at no point does anyone in your party have to ask twice or wait.

The cabins stay open throughout, for changing and for anyone who wants sixty minutes away from the heat. What we sell is a charter in daylight, away late morning and home by the close of the eight hours, so their role is comfort inside the day and nothing beyond it.

Speed on a boat this size

Her quoted 35 knots is what puts far-off anchorages inside a single day without the schedule becoming a forced march. Most thirty-metre yachts turn a run to the far side of Formentera into the centrepiece of the day; she turns it into a leg of it, with hours left over at the other end.

That matters most for groups with a specific destination in mind. If your charter is built around being somewhere particular, at a particular time, with enough of the day left to enjoy it, she is the boat that makes the arithmetic work.

She is also unaffected by the conditions that shorten days on smaller hulls. An afternoon breeze that would send a twelve-metre boat home early is simply not a factor here, so a plan agreed in the morning is a plan that survives.

The groups who take her

Twelve guests for whom the boat is the occasion. Significant celebrations, corporate charters where the vessel carries part of the message, and families who have chartered at twenty metres before and want to see what the next step actually delivers.

She rewards groups who plan properly. With four crew and a boat of this scale, catering, water toys and timings can all be arranged in advance, and very little of it can be improvised on the morning. The best days on her are the ones that were discussed a week earlier.

Twelve is the legal maximum for a day charter in Spanish waters, and she carries exactly that despite her size. Bigger parties go out on two boats, an arrangement far more common than people expect, covered on our page about chartering for twenty people.

Water toys and what can be added

By request she will carry paddleboards, Seabobs or jet skis for the day. On a boat of this size they change the character of an anchorage considerably, because there is room to launch and recover them without the deck turning into a workshop.

Toys and specialised catering are quoted separately and confirmed before the day rather than settled at the quay, and availability depends on the boat. The office takes those requests directly and will tell you what is realistic for your date.

Inside the seasonal figure sit all four crew, the cover, the towels, the snorkels, tax at the Spanish rate of 21%, and the eight hours themselves. Nothing is added afterwards except the fuel.

What she burns

About 850 litres per day, quoted daily rather than hourly because on a hull like this the hourly rate says very little about what a real charter costs. Most of the eight hours are spent at anchor with the engines stopped.

Fuel is worked out when the charter finishes and billed on the amount used, which is the only element of the day that moves after you book. A charter built around one long stop sits well below the daily figure; a day of hard running sits at it.

For a thirty-metre yacht capable of 35 knots, that consumption is a genuinely reasonable number, and it is one of the less obvious reasons she is easier to justify than her length suggests.

Preparing for the charter

Stowage is never an issue at this size, so pack for the day you want rather than for the locker space. Towels are aboard for the whole group. A change of clothes for the run home is worth having, given how much of the day is spent in and out of the water.

No guest needs a licence or any experience afloat. The crew hold the qualifications and the responsibility, both inside the published price, and our page on licences for renting a boat in Ibiza explains how that differs from a bareboat arrangement.

Pick a departure to suit the morning inside the customary window; her eight hours start the moment the lines come off. Sunset charters are arranged individually on request.

Something worth understanding before you enquire: at this level the boat is rarely the constraint. Dates are. A single hull of thirty metres can only be in one place on any given Saturday in August, and the enquiries that succeed are the ones that arrive with flexibility attached.

We would rather tell you early that a date is gone than hold a conversation for a fortnight and disappoint you at the end of it. Send the date first and the questions second, and we will come back the same day either way.

For groups weighing her against two smaller boats, the arithmetic is worth doing properly. Two hulls means two skippers, two anchorages that have to be coordinated and a group split in half for the whole day. One boat of this size keeps twelve people together and, at the top of the season, often costs less than the pair.

Her three bands

Low season means May or October, mid season means June or September, and high season is July with August. From bottom to top the movement on this yacht is €4,000.

The two steps could hardly be more unequal. Moving from the low band to the middle costs €800, while moving from the middle to the peak costs €3,200. On our flagship that makes September the standout booking of the year: the identical yacht, warm water, and €267 a head less than August. Our guide to choosing a charter month covers why the shoulder weeks behave this way.

The yachts just below her

The Ferretti 117 is the other boat at this level from €12,600. The Pershing 8X is shorter and quicker still from €11,700, and the Lady 99 trades pace for shade from €9,999. All of them sit on the Ibiza superyacht page.

Questions about the Leopard 107