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Westerly Fulmar |
Price Guide |
£24,000 to £35,000
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Builder |
Westerly Yachts Ltd., Waterlooville, Hampshire |
LOA |
31' 10" |
Sail area |
566 sq ft main and genoa |
Brief details |
LWL |
26' 0" |
Rig |
Sloop |
The Westerly Fulmar
is a fast family cruiser with the potential for club racing, with
all the usual Westerly virtues of solid construction and seaworthiness.
'Yachting Monthly' described the Fulmar as having "....
perfect manners - a light touch on the tiller, good balance and
straight running". |
Beam |
10' 11" |
Cabins |
1 plus saloon |
Draught |
5' 3" fin or 4' 0" bilge keels, also a few 3' 6"
to 5' 9" lift-keelers |
Berths |
5/6 |
Displacement |
9,900 lbs |
Engine |
Volvo or Bukh diesel |
Ballast |
4,210 lbs (except lift-keelers at 4,350 lbs) |
BHP |
18 - 24 |
Keel type |
Iron fin or bilge keels and spade rudder. A very
few lift-keelers were also built. |
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Introduced in 1980, the Westerly Fulmar was
the second design by Ed Dubois for Westerly, the first being
the smaller Griffon 26. It was intended as a replacement for
the Laurent Giles 31-footers (Westerly Longbow, Berwick, Renown
and Pentland), but was a substantially higher performance
yacht, so much so that they were used for match racing and
race training. The main production run of the standard Fulmar
32 ended in 1992 with over 400 built, but a very few Fulmar
33s were built up to around 1996, these later boats having
a modified transom with 'sugarscoop' boarding platform.
Despite the higher performance, the Westerly Fulmar was
a very successful pure cruiser, and a surprising number
are still in use as sailing school and charter boats, a
testament to their combination of vice-free handling and
robust construction. Prices can vary a lot, from hard-worked
ex-sailing-school boats to carefully maintained private-use
boats. Like all Westerlys of this era, they suffer from
sagging interior foam-vinyl headlinings.
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