-Westsail 32-

"BES"
Basic Specifications
Kit Boat Built 1976 - W32 #498
MFG. HULL NUMBER WSSK 0498 0176

LOA 32'	LWL 27'-6"	Beam 11'- 0"
Draft 5'-0"	Displacement 20,000 lbs.	Fiberglass Hull
Ballast 7,000 lbs.	Sail Area: 663 Sq. Ft.	Cutter Rig
Engine: Perkins 4-108	HP: 40	Fuel Type: Diesel
Fuel Tank Capacity: 72 gals		Water Tank Capacity: 80 gals

Accommodations:

• 4 adults--- or 3 adults and 2 children, new head, sink, fresh water pump at sink.

Galley:

• 2006 Force 10 stainless steel 2 burner propane gimbaled stove with oven.
• Gas detector, alarm, automatic solenoid shutoff in propane locker linked to gas detector.
• 2006 Adler Barbour refrigerator freezer in ice box, compressor in cabinetry in head area.

Electronics:

• Garmin color GPS, Eagle in-hull sonar, Standard DS-45 thru-hull sonar.
• Navico TP300CX autopilot on board, wired, not hooked up.
• VHF Icom M-59 1994, handheld Icom VHF 2006, compass Ritchie 4", short wave radio

Electrical:

• 100 amp Balmar alternator, 30 amp 120 VAC shore connection
• 120 VAC and 12 VDC, circuit breakers
• Heart Interface 1000
• Freedom 10
• Link 2000 monitor
• Dual but separate battery arrangement with Smart switch
• Master switch for both positive and negative
• 2 big Delco maintenance free batteries on one circuit
• 2 six volt golf cart batteries on other circuit.
• Fluorescent and incandescent lights throughout
• Red lights near nav station.
• 120 V AC powered by inverter throughout boat.

Deck:

• New tiller
• Windlass SL 555 manual double drum horizontal.
• Sheet winches self-tailing Lewmar #42 jib 2 each
• Sheet winches self-tailing Harken #16
• Staysail winches 2 ea
• Boom gallows
• Garhauer mechanical vang
• Full awning from mast to gallows with tiedowns
• Chocks and cleats for and aft.
• Two rodes with about 40 ft heavy chain and rope to 300 ft each.
• Halogen deck light working
• Two spreader lights need new bulbs.

Sail and Rigging:

• Cutter.
• Roller furler installed new 2006.
• New Yankee, new hanked staysail
• Older but serviceable main
• Reaching spinnaker
• Hanked staysail.
• All standing rigging replaced 3/94 with Staloc fittings and new 1 x 19 stainless wire.
• Stalocks installed with hot wax filling voids.
• Mast repainted and rewired 1994.
• Chain plates removed inspected and rebedded 1997.
• New stainless steel spring loaded Garhauer mechanical vang, 1999.
• All sheets and halyards replaced 2006

Additional:

• Sea Eagle sport boat 9.5 ft with 9.8 Tohatsu 4 stroke engine both purchased new 2006, with 12 hours use on boat and engine, available $2800 additional.
• 45 #CQR anchor, several high tensile Danforth anchors in addition to large Fortress and CQR that are on the 2 roded.
• Spare parts include shafts, prop, alternator, heat exchanger, water pump, many water pump impellers, fuel filters, oil filter.
• Engine has permanently mounted electric oil pump out for changing oil, and auxiliary fuel pump if prime is lost, as well as 4 manual fuel pumps on the 4 filter mechanisms.

Features and Benefits:

• All new fuel lines and new racor fuel filters, on both tanks, two filters per tank
• Auxiliary fuel pump for priming filters, filters have pumps on them also, electric pump to remove oil from engine.
• New head 2006.

Why I bought the boat.

Wanted a strong, safe ocean cruiser with proven history.

What I love about it.

Spacious interior and on deck. Lots of storage cabinets. Wonderful galley arrangement and accommodations, and very low amp refrigerator freezer. Fuel consumption is 0.7 gallons per hour at 5 knots. I use the hour meter as fuel gauge, with 72 gallons fuel, great range. Perkins engine is amazing, starts instantly without glow plugs. Best I have ever seen, even though, or perhaps because, it is a 30 year old engine. Engine hours: 1236 Cruising speed: 6 knots. A very tough boat.

Best times:

I lost my previous sailboat to Katrina, and bought this one in Savannah GA on Oct 22, 2005, two months after Katrina. Spent several months installing new features on it, roller furling, refrig/freezer, Sonar, head, galley, propane locker, hooking up second fuel tank and filters. Sailed with son from Savannah to Abacos, Bahamas, which took a week, great time with him, great sailing. Swapped son for wife in NE Abacos, spent week in Bahamas, then sailed south through Providence channel, around state of Florida, across Gulf to New Orleans. Many storms with high winds and excessive, deafening lightning raining down around us. Wife was terrified at times (electrical storms and waves) and enchanted at times (bow riding dolphins in emerald green waters), but she wants to go back. Previously was afraid to, but went anyway.

Buyers should like the safety, the fact that everything that suffers from time and wear has been inspected and replaced or validated as sound. Buyers will love the engine. And the space inside, and the cooking facilities.

I am selling the boat to get something with a shallow draft, a cat or trimaran. The canal on which I live was filled with mud by Katrina, and has a hard sand bar across the mouth now, with a depth of 3.5 feet.

History:

This boat was intended to be used for oceanic sailing by its previous owner and wife. Departure date was to be not long after 1994, the date you see for replacing, inspecting etc rigging. Wife got cancer and underwent a lingering decline, so boat sat at the dock in Savannah, with periodic maintenance on engine, for 5 years without sailing. Did not get used until I bought it. So the new rigging did not see salt spray untill I departed for Bahamas in 2006.

Location: New Orleans, LA

Price: $48,000

Contact: Hammond Eve 4601 Murano Rd. New Orleans, LA 70129 Phone: 504-254-1347 Email: hamsan@bellsouth.net

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