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Westerly Corsair |
Brief details |
Builder |
Westerly Yachts, Waterlooville, Hampshire |
The Westerly Corsair
is a solidly built large-volume family cruiser, big enough and heavy
enough for serious offshore work, and with a remarkably spacious
interior. These boats are quite popular for long-distance cruising,
and much travelled examples may be well worn. |
LOA |
35' 8" |
Sail area |
836 sq ft main and genoa
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LWL |
30' 5" |
Rig |
sloop |
Beam |
12' 6" |
Cabins |
2 plus saloon |
Draught |
4' 11" |
Berths |
7/8 |
Displacement |
15,500 lbs |
Engine |
Volvo diesels |
Ballast |
6,600 lbs |
BHP |
28 or 43 |
Keel type |
Shallow iron fin keel with rudder on partial skeg |
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The Westerly Corsair was designed by Ed Dubois,
and introduced at the 1983 Southampton Boat Show as a replacement
for the earlier Conway design. The design aim was to produce
a better performing yacht than the Conway, and to improve
the interior. The original prototype Corsair had two single
aft berths, with no aft heads, and a ketch rig was also intended
to be an option. Few ketches were ever sold, and the aft cabin
layout for production boats was very soon changed to have
an athwartships double and an aft heads. The revised design
was very popular, and over 100 were built between 1984 and
1986.
In 1986 the Mk II version was produced, this using identical
hull and deck mouldings, and having fairly minor internal
changes, including alterations to the galley, a U-shaped berth
in the saloon and a backrest and seat for the navigator, moving
the passage berth by the chart table aft, and in turn reducing
locker space in the aft cabin. The numbers sold of the Corsair
Mk II were never as high as the Mk I, with about 50 sold until
1989/90, when the hull and deck mouldings were enlarged and
revised to create the
Oceanranger.
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