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• Westerly goes racing
  We never succumbed to the demand for kit boats, and we weren’t about to now. Howev ...l I.O.R. considerations and went for a simple boat that was fast, cheap to build, fast and exciting to race, and most of all fast!
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• HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF YOUR WESTERLY
  ...the gunter mainsail to the mast. When the lacing is done this way it will never hold up the sail when it is being reefed or lowered. Note that the lacing ...en to the air and can breathe. Sails which need to be stowed below should never be rolled up and stowed away when they are wet. Terylene sails dry very qu
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• Corsair 36
  ..., asthe sea schools love them for their vice free handling and strength of build. Individual owners would say it’s their vice free handling, their speed a ..., but we should remember that every boat is a classic to her owner, and it never gets easier to say goodbye to the last one, even though the next one is jus
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• Wiring
  ==Computer Build Show== ...o East Coast Group Westerly Winter Workshop 2013 by Robert Jones on how to build a ruggedized PC for your Westerly
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• Fitting a Wind Generator on a Solway
  ...s demanding. The boat is easy to balance and the autopilot is consequently never very busy. But if everything were working all at once, there could be an ap ...oll ‘arc’ on this boat is much less than on a smaller lighter boat. It never wets the decks close-hauled, and has an easy, long-legged motion at sea. It
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• Typhoon and Tempest
  ...-fins. Was this a breakthrough in twin keel technology? Sadly not, one can never move as fast with two keels as with one. My theory is that Ed Dubois simply ...U-shaped saloon seats. By the start of the Show there were already six in build, so the first Tempest with an L-shaped berth was No. 7.
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• The Seahawks and their sisters
  ...ockpit version, but towards the end of 1992, someone persuaded Westerly to build an aft cockpit version, using the Falcon’s deck of course. ...ean that the boat is not the same shape in the water as out, so that doors never open or close when ashore, if properly adjusted for being afloat. The rig s
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• Westerly Brochures
  Length 35 feet, fin keel, after cockpit, sloop (only one build by New Systems Yachts, Slovenia) Length 35 feet, fin keel, after cockpit, sloop (possible only one build by New Systems Yachts, Slovenia)
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• The Warwick, Westerly 21 and Pageant
  ...yacht ever produced, was born. Her immediate success made it imperative to build a broader base of roomy twin keelers, hence the arrival of the Warwick 21 a ...nts in 1976 and four more the next year, calling them ‘Kendal’. I’ve never sailed one but they must be quite something upwind if the Pageant is anythi
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• Westerly 22 rudder design
  ...ailing community, a fellow sailer offered to get a new rudder designed and build. The following drawings were made by Terry McMennamim for which I am very g ...uld possibly skip the anti-lift ring as the weight of the construction has never lifted the rudder bar out of the existing (40 year old) heel bearing in the
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• The Motor Sailers
  ...hing for those who buy them, they are definitely a bad thing for those who build them. The specialists (LM, Nauticat, Seafinn etc.) seem to be able to get i ...y, which although 2 ft longer is a smaller boat internally, and cheaper to build. This was Westerly’s usual tactic of selling cheaply to stoke the fires,
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• Before Westerly
  ..."A 30 ft boat on an 18 ft hull". Her construction has been summarised as "never use a piece of 2x4 where a piece of 4x8 will do". From 2011 to 2014 she sai The Corvette was Rayner's attempt to build a plywood boat without a hard chine. Although he solved the problem of bend
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• Roger Clark's renovation of Concerto
  ...I expected. I did not open the throttle fully to allow the speed to fully build as some small vibration is suggesting the engine may not be correctly lined ...ght of steps she slipped and managed to break her ankle in 3 places. So we never saw them. It was only yesterday (Sunday) that she had the operation to plat
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• Westerly Classics
  ..., asthe sea schools love them for their vice free handling and strength of build. Individual owners would say it’s their vice free handling, their speed a ..., but we should remember that every boat is a classic to her owner, and it never gets easier to say goodbye to the last one, even though the next one is jus
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