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Westerly Conway |
Brief details
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Builder |
Westerly Yachts, Waterlooville, Hampshire |
A big powerful centre
cockpit cruiser in the solid Westerly tradition, the Conway is an
excellent family cruiser with a good sized double in the aft cabin,
which is accessible from the saloon via a walk through by the chart
table, and has an en-suite heads. |
LOA |
35' 9" |
Sail area |
758 sq ft main, genoa & mizzen ketch, or 732
sq ft sloop |
LWL |
30' 3" |
Rig |
ketch or sloop |
Beam |
11' 3" |
Cabins |
2 plus saloon |
Draught |
6' 0" |
Berths |
8 |
Displacement |
16,127 lbs |
Engine |
Mercedes OM636 diesel |
Ballast |
7,167 lbs |
BHP |
42 |
Keel type |
Iron fin keel with skeg-hung rudder |
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Designed by Laurent Giles, in the same general
style as the Longbow and other smaller Westerlys, the first
Westerly Conways were built in 1974, and at the time were
the largest model Westerly produced.
The Mk I Conways had a interior with quite a lot of exposed
GRP inner mouldings, but from 1978 onwards the Mk II boats
had a much more attractive all-wood interior (though there
are still GRP mouldings in place under the woodwork in places).
The Westerly Conways were built for a time with a choice of
sloop or ketch rigs, the ketch selling in greater numbers.
The same centre-cockpit hull and deck was also used for the
Solway which had twin bilge keels. Production of these variants
ended in the late 1970s.
With a different deck moulding, aft-cockpit versions of the
hull were sold as Medways (fin keel) and Galways (bilge keels).
Westerly Conways continued to be built until 1983, when they
were superceded by the Corsair. For a very short time the
last of the Galways and Medways were sold as Westerly 35s.
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