This Westsail 32 was built and completed by the Westsail Corporation
at its factory in Costa Mesa, CA in 1974. Interior layout has a facing dinette
on the port side of the main cabin, a pull-out settee opposite it on the starboard
side, and a pilot berth above the starboard settee. The galley is U shaped and
located on the port side aft, with gimballed stove outboard, a top loading refrigerator
with a cabinet built over it, and double stainless steel sinks, with lockers above
and along the hull side. There is a navigation table to starboard opposite the
galley, with drawers under, and a hanging locker ahead of the navigation table.
Forward is a head compartment to port in the passageway, with doors to close it
off, and a dresser and hanging locker to starboard. A large double berth is to
port in the forward cabin, with storage under and lockers to starboard. A rope
and chain locker is in the bow. The engine is located aft under the cockpit floor,
with the companionway steps removable, and drop boards for access into the engine
room.
Construction:
Interior furniture built of teak plywood, with teak wood corner posts and trim
Insulation as been installed on all accessible hull sides
All of the exposed areas of the hull are covered with teak ceiling boards
The counter tops are covered with a light yellow leather formica, trimmed with teak sea rails
The cabin sole is teak boards, with ash accent strips
Access hatches located in the cabin sole for inspection and access to the bilges
The headliner is perforated vinyl The interior finish of the wood is satin oil
Berth and settee cushions are 4" foam, with a blue fabric covering
The 7000 lbs. of ballast is a combination of lead pigs and lead shot, installed inside the molded keel, saturated with polyester resin, and bonded over with fiberglass.
Galley:
Shipmate stainless steel two burner propane stove with oven, mounted on gimbals
Propane tank mounted in a deck box on the forward deck
Xintex S2-A propane safety solenoid control and detector 110 volt convection oven
Kerosene Sea Swing cooker
Force 10 stainless steel propane barbecue with spare aluminum propane tank
Top loading refrigerator box is well insulated, with fiberglass liner, and insulated lids
Adler Barbour Coldmachine refrigeration, with compressor under port settee seat
Cabinet built over the refrigerator, with additional storage compartments
Deep, double stainless steel galley sinks, connected to a foot operated drain pump to the seacock
Pressure water system installed, with a Shurflo pump and accumulator tank, and mixer valve at the sink
Manual fresh water foot pump with spigot and salt water hand pump are located at the galley sink
Two 38 gallon stainless steel water tanks under the main cabin sole
Pur Model 40E watermaker with auxiliary pump, with carbon water filters
Six gallon stainless steel water heater in the engine room, with 110 volt heating, as well as operating from the engine cooling water system
Shipmate stainless steel kerosene cabin heater installed on the main salon bulkhead, with a 1" stainless vent pipe with deck fitting, and a small built-in pressure tank
Plumbing:
Head compartment counter with formica top and a round stainless steel sink connected to an overboard seacock
Raritan Cricket manual marine toilet, connected through a Y valve to a bronze
overboard discharge seacock
18 gallon polyethylene holding tank located under the forward berth
Holding tank connected to a deck discharge and also a manual pumpout pump
Underwater thru hull fittings are Groco bronze seacocks
Whale Gusher Model 25 manual bilge pump under the navigation table top
Henderson manual bilge pump with a thru-bulkhead fitting to pump from the cockpit
Two submersible electric bilge pumps
Blaster salt water washdown pump
Electrical system:
Much of the original wiring has been replaced
Five 12 volt Gel Cell marine batteries with secure holdown clamps
Three 12 volt electric panels with 24 circuit breakers
Two battery disconnect switches
Heart Freedom combination battery charger and inverter
Link 2000 Next alternator charge control, with E Meter amperage usage meter, and a high capacity alternator
Ample incandescent and fluorescent lights
Two flexible 25 watt Unisolar solar panels, plus two 50 watt Siemens rigid frame solar panels Four 110 volt circuit breakers plus a master disconnect, with GFI protected outlets throughout
the boat
Waterproof shore power inlet mounted on the inside of the aft bulwark
Navigation lights are Perko teardrop type mounted on the bow pulpit, and a stern
light is mounted on a post on the stern
Tricolor and strobe lights are on the masthead, along with an anchor light
Sealed beam spreader lights
Electronics:
West Marine Zephyr Model VHF radio, with antenna on the masthead
Icom handheld VHF radio
Icom Model 710 Single Sideband radio, with Icom automatic antenna tuner
Insulated backstay, and copper ground plane straps
Garmin Model 128 GPS mounted with fiberglass antenna on the stern
Garmin Model 45 handheld GPS
Raytheon Model SL72 radar installed on a swing mount, with the dome on a stern mounted post Standard Horizon Combi model fathometer, speedometer and log
West Marine wind direction and windspeed instrument
Alpha tiller operated autopilot with remote
Danforth bulkhead compass mounted in a portlight on the cabin back
Handheld compass in a bulkhead mounted bracket
5" Chelsea quartz clock and matching barometer mounted on the bulkhead
Weems and Plath quartz clock
Guest 12 volt sealed beam portable spotlight
JVC stereo, cassette and CD player, with dual speakers
Zenith combination TV and VCR
IBM Thinkpad portable computer
US Navy Mk. II sextant, ample charts
Charting program and weatherfax capability from the radio and computer
Pactor II email modem
Engine:
Engine installed new in November of 1995
Perkins 50 HP Model M-50 diesel, with a fiberglass drip pan under it as part of the engine mounting system
Exhaust system has a fiberglass waterlift muffler, high rise loop with shutoff valve on the outlet
An anti-siphon vent on the cooling water outlet
Two 38 gallon aluminum fuel tanks mounted on shelves on either side of the engine room
Tanks installed new when the engine was replaced in 1995
Racor Model 500FE fuel filter, with selector valve system, and sight gauges installed
Groco seawater strainer installed on the water inlet line
Teleflex single lever control mounted in the cockpit
Instrument panel mounted on the cockpit wall
Sound proofing insulation installed in the engine room
Exterior:
The exterior woodwork is all teak, with an oil finish
The deck has a teak plank covering on it
Seams have been deepened and recaulked, and screws and plugs reset
Bowsprit is laminated fir, which has been rebuilt and refinished
Teak platform bolted onto the bowsprit, with a stainless steel bow pulpit
Stainless steel lifeline stanchions bolted onto the fiberglass deck bulwarks
Stainless steel stern pulpit rail
Bronze pipe frame boom gallows mounted on the aft end of the cabin top, with saddle on either side to hold the boom
Safety rails mounted on the cabintop alongside the mast
Double vinyl coated lifelines with midships gates both sides
Stainless steel pipe frame boomkin, with a 2" x 4" crosspiece
Boomkin stay tangs replaced with 1-1/4" wide ones
Twelve round bronze opening portlights, thrubolted through the cabin sides, with
stainless screens
Main companionway sliding hatch is teak
Hinged forward cabin hatch has a plexiglass top with teak frame
Aluminum Lewmar opening hatch installed on the cabintop over the salon
Vinyl scoop ventilators plus a solar powered vent are installed on the cabintop
Companionway drop boards made of teak
Two spun brass hawse pipes installed forward, two round cast bronze ones midships, two
oval bronze ones aft
Two brass scupper drains on each side through the bulwarks
Two 1-1/2" delrin cockpit drains connected to bronze seacocks
Two 10" bronze mooring cleats mounted aft, two midships, and a pair of fir sampson posts forward
Outboard mounted rudder, with fiberglass gudgeons and bronze pintal pins
Laminated wood tiller installed into a stainless box bolted to the rudder
Anchoring equipment:
45 lb. CQR plow bow anchor 35 lb. kedge anchor
Danforth 22S stern anchor
Dingy anchor 400' of chain on one anchor
Two 200' lengths of 3/4" braided nylon anchor rode
250' of 5/8" nylon three strand anchor rode
300' of 5/8" nylon rode for the sea anchor
Bronze single speed, double action manual windlass
Two stainless steel anchor rollers mounted on the bowsprit
Two deck pipes to the locker below
Ample nylon dock lines and fenders
12' Paratech sea anchor and a Paranetics drogue
Rigging Mast and boom are aluminum, by Royal Marine, with a fixed base on the cabin top Spreaders are airfoil aluminum, and the tips are covered with vinyl boots
Turnbuckles 1/2" stainless steel center body, with stainless toggle ends
Standing rigging 9/32" 1 x 19 stainless wire with swaged eye ends
Halyards and sheets are all 7/16" braided dacron
Main, jib, and staysail halyard winches are all Barlow #16 bronze
Primary winches Barient #23 self-tailing chrome bronze, mounted on stainless winch bases bolted to the bulwarks
Pair of aluminum tracks with slide car blocks mounted on the cabin top for controlling the staysail
Two Harken #16 self tailing winches on the aft cabin top corners
Mainsheet controlled with Harken blocks mounted on the boomkin and boom end, and a 5 to 1 purchase
Genoa tracks installed on the caprails, with two slide cars and rubber shell snatch
blocks
Sails:
Mainsail is tanbark dacron, with two sets of reef points
Jiffy reefing gear and two Barlow #15 bronze winches mounted on the boom
Tanbark jib sail
Tanbark staysail
Dacron genoa Cruising spinnaker
Main trysail
Storm jib
Dark green sunbrella sail cover on the main boom, and headsail bags
Miscellaneous equipment:
Aires aluminum windvane bolted to the boomkin crosspiece
1" stainless dodger frame with green sunbrella cover
Custom Bimini top over cockpit
Avon 9.5 inflatable sportboat dinghy
Nissan 9 HP outboard motor
Telescoping aluminum boathook
Boatswains chair
Four step stainless steel boarding ladder
Teak waterbreaks built from the aft corners of the cabin to the bulwarks
Safety equipment:
RFD 4 person liferaft in fiberglass canister, certified in November of 1998
Lifesling overboard system
Horseshoe lifering
Fiberglass overboard pole
Inflatable and web strap safety harnesses, tethers and jacklines
406 EPIRB
Two ACR overboard strobes
Two inflatable and four Type II lifejackets
The required horn and bell aboard
Three Kiddee 10 ABC dry chemical fire extinguishers mounted in the cabins
Smoke alarm and CO2 sensor with alarm installed
25 MM flaregun plus Skyblazer and hand flares
Boat has been cruised in Mexico for four years
Last hauled in La Paz, Mexico in January, 2001
Two coats bottom paint and cutlass bearing replaced
No signs of blisters or other problems noted
Availability and Location:
BEGONE is located in a dry storage boatyard at San Carlos, Mexico, on the west coast, approximately a 4 hour drive from Tucson, Arizona.
Anchoring equipment:
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