WestSail 32? Yes Please!

[prv]

Give them sail! They can carry; a lot more that given.

There's a guy on the BoatDesign.net forums who has studied small fore-and-aft cargo vessels from around the world, and is a strong advocate of this principle. If you're going to copy old full-bodied hulls designed to transport tons of bricks or potatoes you need to give them the sail area to haul that bulk around, as they did when such boats worked for a living. Going from big square barn-door gaff mains to bermudian sails without significantly increasing the height of the mast, for example, is a good way to end up under-canvassed.

His own boat (35 feet IIRC) has a beamy full-bodied hull, but carries 1000 square feet in the mainsail alone, plus probably about another 700 in jib, staysail and mizzen.

Pete

 

[Seajet]

Zagato,

there is / was one for sale on my club notice board, may well be PeteK's chum at Emsworth.

She looks lovely in a blue water sort of way, probably unrewarding for Solent & occasional cross Channel sailing.

Of course the trendy blue water thinking is a light boat and keep steering, rather than a heavy boat which sits there and gets clobbered ( see Tzu Hang ) which is all very well if you have a rugby team on board to keep sailing the light boat !

 

[michael_w]

Not for nothing are they known as the West Slug 32.

 

[jwilson]

Rather sail a Westsail from Hong Kong than a Jeanneau! (If I had to - come to think of it I'd probably ship it!) ... great underwater shape, slow yes but never did Colin Archer any harm.

Fairly sure the Westsail was shipped from HK. And the Jeanneau is a much much nicer coastal cruiser/potterer!

 

[Nikia]

The good old Wetsnail. In Hong Kong I kept a Cheoy Lee for some years on a mooring in Deepwater Bay - on the next mooring was one - dark green colour hull. They really are pretty slow, compared to almost everything else.

In 2000 we came back to England and by 2004 had semi-sorted out the house we bought (don't buy listed buildings) and were looking at boats. At Mylor Yacht Harbour, a few boats away from the Jeanneau we bought, was the same green Westsail - still with her RHKYC registration number on the bow.

I also saw that Westsail at Mylor, I believe she was named "Salty". Beautiful boat although she needed a lot of work. I would have bought her but there was a problem with documentation.
I went on to buy a Tayana 37, which I'm delighted with, both looks and seakeeping. No racer, but no slouch either!

 

[TimBennet]

I went on to buy a Tayana 37, which I'm delighted with, both looks and seakeeping. No racer, but no slouch either!

Well the Tayana 37 is another Bob Perry design that built on the American love of double enders but benefited from applying the knowledge gained from the last 100 years of naval architecture research and experience.

 

[FWB]

I was always intrigued by "Salty" having dined at the HKYC many times. She looked awful in green though.

 

[snapdragon747]

I come across these quite often in the States on my travels as a boat repairer and delivery skipper. I find them very much over priced for the size of boat and often poorly finished.

However if you want one, you buy it and I'll deliver it!

 

[FWB]

Have just seen Salty on the Mylor webcam...

 

[Zagato]

That's interesting, I'll google the webcam! Edit, shame it says the AXIS system can not be registered to my computer! It may have just viewed my sisters mooring if the harbour wall doesn't get in the way. It may have been useful when she had her tender stolen from the bottom of her garden. I'll let her know about the webcam anyway...