Recent content by brian.campbell

Yes engine is original, which was a bit of a worry I have to say. Engine looks in good nick howver, and has had substantial servicing and maintenance, so your reply is reassuring thanks.

They’re really useful and reassuring replies, thanks. Doesn’t sound much to worry about for us. We need a large and stable solid yacht, not a racer!

Morning all, We're considering moving up to a larger yacht. There's a Westerly 33 we may be interested in. It's a bilge keeler, and I wondered how much this compromises sailing ability. Not looking for a racer, or even a particularly fast boat, but we don't want to be embarrassed by getting...

Yes, that's our set-up. Our friend thought that by-passing the boom car and block at the clew of the sail would reduce the friction, which it did, but resulted in a rubbish sail set. You still lose some sail and pointing ability with the correct set-up, and as you say you have to keep a bit of...

You can see how high off the boom the clew is. Bad set-up. It is a feature of in-mast reefing that the clew is cut quite high, and you lose some foot of the sail. This is to keep it high enough to roll in to the mast. It was made worse because we'd furled so much as the wind was building. A...

Here's ours off the Tees entrance on our way up to Seaham. Breezy day, but the boat handled it very smoothly. Yes there's a line visible in the water about 01:24, but it only dangled a couple of ft, it still secured the pole very well and I wasn't about to go forward to sort it just then! We've...

Here's ours. Dinette arrangement works fine for us. She's a good boat for the north sea, very capable, and goes upwind very well. She goes better than you'd think for a draught of 1.3m, the lead keel makes a big difference. I'm 6' 3 and I reckon that's about the limit for the quarter berths...