Keith Richards had ambitions when he purchased his 53-foot powercat, Kekada. He wanted to cruise the Caribbean and Mediterranean. He just had to get Kekada across the Atlantic Ocean first.
His Leopard 53 PC was built in Cape Town, South Africa, by Robertson and Caine, a global powerhouse that ships boats worldwide. It seemed to Keith that moving the boat on its own bottom would be a practical, cost-saving choice. He was also inspired by his parents, Don and Anja Richards, who had taken him and his sister, Katherine, across the world on a Catalina 42 Mk II back in 1998, when Keith was 13.
“I got two years off of school, went from Australia to Turkey, and then my parents took another two years to finish it off,” Keith…