Westerly Storm

[beserksail]

Ha Ha! I think a Storm IS as good as a Fulmar and I have sailed both... The Storm also has a separate aft cabin - albeit a little cramped by some standards. The Fulmar is a great boat but horses for courses...

We have a Fulmar with a seperate aft cabin, so must have best of both worlds. Fantastic boat though.

 

[puddock]

"19hp is a bit small for a boat of that size "

Borrocks.

Double Borrocks ! More than enough.

 

[PeterR]

And in 1935 we were happy (or would have been - I wasnt born then) to drive an Austin Ruby as a four seater family car with 17bhp on a good day.

There are times when tacking to windward simply wont get you there in time and you need to motor. To drive a 33 ft boat into a 6, a 19bhp engine would be marginal, particularly with the sort of folder you are likely to have on a Storm.

I cannot forget the frustration of trying to drive a 33 footer ( not a Storm) against 20 knots and the tide away from our moorings and simply having to give up and re-moor. That was with a Yanmar 2gm and a 3 blade prop. OK that was a Prout cat but it didnt have that much windage

I cannot speak for the Storm but a lot of modern performance 34/35 footers are still offered with the Volvo DI 2 or Yamaha YM20 and no one seems to complain.

In my Dufour 34 - which weighs about 500kg more than a Storm - with a DI 2, in smooth conditions with a clean hull and clean prop, I get 6 knots at 2000 rpm, 6.5 at 2500 and about 7.1 knots flat out at 2800. People with the optional DI 3 claim about half a knot more at the same rpm but use appreciably more fuel. In flat water I can still cruise at 6knots into a F6. On the open sea it is faster and more comfortable to sail to windward, who wants to smash directly into big seas at 7 knots?

Where the bigger engine might gain is at the end of the season as the hull gets dirtier and more particularly the prop gets a few barnacles on it performance can drop off markedly and it may well be that the bigger engine has a bit more left in reserve. However, that is conjecture and the drop in performance is easily solved by a day on the scrubbing posts.

 

[KREW2]

As this old thread has been resurrected I shall put it to bed by confirming that the engine drives the boat very well. The doubts were placed in my mind by the poor performance of my previous boat, which also had a VP 2002. Weighing some three and a half tons less, full throttle would barely get me over 5 Knts, with hindsight I now realise that was not right.
Message to self, check time on watch when alarm goes off.
Reset alarm clock from 0500, (an early start to get to the Isle of Wight) to 0700, time to get up on Wednesday for work.