Review of Westerly 24

Basic specs.

The Westerly 24 aka Westerly GK 24 is a small sailboat designed by the British maritime architect Jack Laurent Giles together with Peters. The Westerly 24 is built by the British yard Westerly Marine.

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Hull

The hull is made of fibreglass. Generally, a hull made of fibreglass requires only a minimum of maintenance during the sailing season. And outside the sailing season, just bottom cleaning and perhaps anti-fouling painting once a year - a few hours of work, that's all.

Keel

Unknown keel type

The boat can enter most marinas as the draft is just about 1.57 - 1.67 meter (5.15 - 5.45 ft) dependent on the load. See immersion rate below.

Sailing characteristics

This section covers widely used rules of thumb to describe the sailing characteristics. Please note that even though the calculations are correct, the interpretation of the results might not be valid for extreme boats.

Immersion rate

The immersion rate is defined as the weight required to sink the boat a certain level. The immersion rate for Westerly 24 is about 134 kg/cm, alternatively 755 lbs/inch.
Meaning: if you load 134 kg cargo on the boat then it will sink 1 cm. Alternatively, if you load 755 lbs cargo on the boat it will sink 1 inch.

Sailing statistics

This section is statistical comparison with similar boats of the same category. The basis of the following statistical computations is our unique database with more than 26,000 different boat types and 350,000 data points.

L/B (Length Beam Ratio)

What is L/B (Length Beam Ratio)?

The l/b ratio for Westerly 24 is 2.62.

Compared with other similar sailboats it is more spacy than 85% of all other designs. It seems that the designer has chosen a significantly more spacy hull design.

Maintenance

Rig

If you need to renew parts of your running rig and is not quite sure of the dimensions, you may find the estimates computed below useful.

**Guiding dimensions of running rig**
Usage	Length		Diameter
Jib sheet	7.3 m	(23.9 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Genoa sheet	7.3 m	(23.9 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Mainsheet	18.2 m	(59.6 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)
Spinnaker sheet	16.0 m	(52.5 feet)	10 mm	(3/8 inch)

Boat owner's ideas

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References

[Ref 1]: ISO 8666 Small craft — Principal data.
[Ref 3]: ISO 12215-5 Small craft — Hull construction and scantlings.