Westerly Longbow Ketch
Sailboat
32′ 6″
Monohull
Since 1971
Overview
- Builder
- Westerly
- Model
- Longbow Ketch
- Type
- Sailboat
- Category
- Monohull
- Built
- 1971–1980
- Designer
- John Laurent Giles
- Hull material
- Hull and deck: GRP (glass reinforced polyester)
- Rig
- Ketch Marconi masthead
Dimensions
- Length overall
- 32′ 6″ (9.91 m)
- Waterline length
- 24′ (7.32 m)
- Beam
- 9′ 6″ (2.90 m)
- Draft
- 4′ 6″ (1.37 m)
- Displacement
- 8,378 lb (3,800 kg)
- Ballast
- 3,990 lb (1,810 kg)
Power and tanks
- Engine
- 1 inboard engine
- Power
- 25 hp
Sails and rig
- Sail area
- 533 sq ft (49.5 m²)
Accommodation
- Cabins
- 1
- Berths
- 4
- Heads
- 1
Design ratios
- Sail area / displacement
- 20.7
- Displacement / length
- 271
- Ballast ratio
- 48%
- Capsize screening
- 1.87
Power from the sails for the boat's weight. Under 16 is modest, 16–20 a typical cruiser, over 20 lively.
How heavy the boat is for its waterline. Under 200 is light, 200–300 moderate, over 300 heavy.
Share of the weight that is ballast. Higher generally means stiffer in a breeze.
Under 2 is generally considered better for offshore use.
More details
- Appendages
- Keel : fin without bulb
- Ballast ratio
- 48 %
- Cockpit
- Closed aft cockpit
- Construction
- Hull and deck: GRP (glass reinforced polyester)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Genoa area
- 329 ft²
- Helm
- Single tiller
- Jib area
- 152 ft²
- Mast configuration
- Deck stepped mast
- Number of levels of spreaders
- 1
- Rigging type
- Ketch Marconi masthead
- Rotating spars
- No
- Rudder
- Single rudder on skeg
- Solent area
- 237 ft²
- Spars construction
- Aluminum spars
- Spreaders angle
- 0 °
- Standard public price ex. VAT (indicative only)
- N/A €
- Standing rigging
- 1x19 strand wire continuous
- Stormjib area
- 61 ft²
- Trailerable
- No
- Unsinkable
- No
- Version
- Ketch
Data from boat-specs.com. Check details with the builder before relying on them.