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Westerly Tempest |
Brief details |
Builder |
Westerly Yachts Ltd., Waterlooville, Hampshire |
The Tempest 31 is one of the later generation Westerlys designed by Ed Dubois, with a modern hull design with two double aft cabins. These yachts also have a higher quality interior finish than most of the earlier Westerlys. As with two aft double cabins there was no need for a forecabin, the forward part was split into an excellent full-width heads, and a large sail/gear locker with access from both heads and deck. This was called the "Original Option" for the Tempest design. At the end of 1988 Westerly offered a choice of layouts, with an alternative design with a single larger aft cabin, aft heads, and conventional vee-berth forecabin. This option provided a much larger cockpit locker, and was called the "Classic Option". Most boats sold, however, were the "Original" twin aft cabin version.
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LOA |
30' 7" |
Sail area |
523 sq ft main and 150% genoa |
LWL |
24' 6" |
Rig |
Sloop |
Beam |
10' 10" |
Cabins |
2 plus saloon |
Draught |
3' 9" bilge keel or 5' 0" fin keel |
Berths |
6 |
Displacement |
9,020 lbs |
Engine |
usually Volvo MD2002 diesel |
Ballast |
2,866 lbs bilge keels or 2,690 lbs fin keel |
BHP |
18 |
Keel type |
Twin bulbed iron bilge keels or iron fin keel and spade rudder |
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The Westerly Tempest 31 was designed by Ed Dubois in 1987 as a smaller version of the racing-orientated Storm 33. Thanks to broader aft sections it acted as a more cruising-friendly alternative to the existing 32 ft Fulmar design, the Tempest having two proper double aft cabins instead of the somewhat small double quarterberth of the Fulmar. The Tempest also had rather higher quality joinery than the earlier Fulmars, which were conceived as racing-capable boats. The Fulmar continued in production in parallel with the Tempest.
The bilge keel option had twin well-angled and efficient keels with bulbs at the base to keep the centre of gravity low, as well as slightly more keel weight than the fin keel versions.
Just over 100 Tempests were built between 1987 and 1993, when the hull design, interior and rig was reworked and renamed the Regatta 310, which nominally remained in production until 1997, though in those six years only five were built. By then Westerly sales were being hit hard by cheaper French imports, and the company was in trouble, eventually closing in 2000. |
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