Westerly Owners Association

Please folks, don't consider ball/lever valves as permanent items. They are not. From the early 1980s until very recently most manufacturers, including even Westerly, went away from using Bronze (such as Blakes) to screwed-on In-line ball/lever type valves. These were not standardised and came from ...

A little known secret. You don't really need all those electronics. These fridges work quite adequately without all the fancy control stuff. Strip the wiring down. Disconnect the control wires. Buy a simple on/off switch and a basic passive fridge thermostat (available cheaply at many hardware and e...

Give Paul a ring at XW Rigging. He has all the rotastay maintenance stuff.

Very good luck and thank you for all your efforts!

Sorry. Was at the boat to day but forgot to look at pump position! Will look again during the week. BTW the big chunky mouldings that go ACROSS the bottom of the boat are 'floors'. Your floors should already have limber holes cut in them for drainage, but as rhumlady inferred, its not a good idea to...

I will have a look tomorrow and get back. My OR was coded and set up to meet RORC regs etc. The cockpit based manual pump must always be considered as the primary, because the cockpit is the emergency control position, and would be used when power is lost. The secondary pump is another manual pump, ...

Agree with the forgoing. Just to add that the hull-deck join is simple deck-over-hull biscuit lid with the joint being over-laminated in most places internally. The solid teak rubbing strake bolts pass through the joint and the nuts inside are glassed in (usually)...which can be a right P in the A!....

Yes. Try 'BOATIE'..very good!

That weight is probably a reasonable estimate. Very heavy in other words. Just don't get a foot under it! There should be an upper and lower bearing made of a synthetic nylon type material. The lower bearing is a top hat section and you should be able to see the flange or rim at the top of the rudde...

Not sure whether this is of any use or not. If your boat is not post-RCD CE coded, and you are not operating commercially, or in certain inland waters or canal areas, there is no LEGAL requirement for a private boat to adhere to the commercial trade standards. Although highly desirable of course, it...

I'll second that. Ive got both as well. Just replacing my genoa with a new vectran one, but still with foamed luff. Fully battened main is great. Quiet and powerful. You get a better roach and can get more power form the sail. It is however a little bit heavier to hoist, and its a bit more fiddly ge...

I would say you would need to be a bit more specific than that. Are you asking about the table, or bunks, or shelves, or bookcases, or the flooring, or headlining, etc etc! All are secured very differently.

Both XW Rigging at Gosport, UK, and Trafalgar Yachts at Fareham, UK, will have the details for this.
XW (= ex-Westerly) have all the measurements for all Westerly rigs.

Ref...... applying a coat of epoxy. If you want to apply epoxy as a preventive (anti osmosis etc) barrier then just 'slapping on a coat' won't achieve that. For epoxy coatings to work the boat has to be really quite dry. A moisture meter must be used to check how she is drying out (whether you are d...

Yes agree. No problem. Standard job for Storm, Corsair, OR, Typhoon, and others. Trafalgar used to be able to get it done but I've just used local workshops. Note that some of the apparently solid alloy stanchions have a hollow section...depends on the makers spec. Recommendation used to be that the...