You have got a lot of boat for your money. Hopefully there are no major problems that need sorting.
I would advise you check that the Treadmaster is fully bonded along every edge. On my Fulmar I found osmosis had started due to water becoming trapped underneath the Treadmaster. It is an easy fix once the Treadmaster has been removed. Then paint the decks with non slip deck paint.
I would advise you check that the Treadmaster is fully bonded along every edge. On my Fulmar I found osmosis had started due to water becoming trapped underneath the Treadmaster. It is an easy fix once the Treadmaster has been removed. Then paint the decks with non slip deck paint.
Is your Fulmar 'Concerto' - one of the ex Westerly Sea School boats?
Thanks so much for the heads up Steve! I was working in Scotland in early September, viewed her and now she's mine! Transport all sorted and hopefully this week she'll be delivered home. Really, really pleased with her, totally made up to own such a beautiful boat.....albeit with a few minor issues just to keep me occupied over the winter. Thanks again and yet more proof how great this forum is.
Never mind spending out on an engineer to calculate loads. Westerly yachts were professionally designed & sold like hot cakes & yet their keels fell off with monotonous regularity. This resulted in a product recall on all centaurs to strengthen them. Despite this many didnt get fixed & in the last 10 years in our yacht club alone 4 Centaurs, 2 Konsorts & 2 Discus's have had severe hull to keel problems, two of these sunk on drying moorings (sheltered). The common thread on three of them was soft mud where the keels went in a long way & the keels got wrung as the boat lifted with the tide. Others just gave up due to long general use.
Though it can be done its an absolute certainty to be uneconomic to do. You will have to gut the saloon down to the hull skin, strengthen the skin itself at each proposed keel location & fit at least 4 floors extending 2ft each side of the keel, you will use a lot of fibreglass, then you have to put all the bunks, floor etc back in again, much of this is structural to some degree. Then you have to source keels, on a Centaur sized boat they will be half a ton each, with an efficient splayed configuration you need a lifting gantry to hang the boat in to fit them. Out of interest the cost of reinforcing a Westerly Centaur properly by a boatyard is anywhere from £7500 to £10,000 You can buy a lot of yacht for that money ready to go. Your best bet is to buy a shallow draft boat that works, go sailing & eat steak.
I was - may still - considering a bilge-keel Discus, but reading some disheartening reports on hull weakness, was this taken care of for most Discus-es in the 80's-90's in recalls, or the owner has to take care if he doesn't want to sink?
This one is from boatdesign.net:
I was - may still - considering a bilge-keel Discus, but reading some disheartening reports on hull weakness, was this taken care of for most Discus-es in the 80's-90's in recalls, or the owner has to take care if he doesn't want to sink?
This one is from boatdesign.net:
Never mind spending out on an engineer to calculate loads. Westerly yachts were professionally designed & sold like hot cakes & yet their keels fell off with monotonous regularity. This resulted in a product recall on all centaurs to strengthen them. Despite this many didnt get fixed & in the last 10 years in our yacht club alone 4 Centaurs, 2 Konsorts & 2 Discus's have had severe hull to keel problems, two of these sunk on drying moorings (sheltered). The common thread on three of them was soft mud where the keels went in a long way & the keels got wrung as the boat lifted with the tide. Others just gave up due to long general use.