1982 Westsail 32

You’re looking at a Westsail; so, you know what you’re looking at. Odds are you are familiar with the reputation, popularity and success of the design.

This Westsail is one of the kit productions. The hull was laid in 1979 and finished-out by master woodworker Dugan Essick using Hawaiian koa wood paneling throughout. Dugan was working at the time for Westsail, finishing the interiors of the production boats. He now runs a woodworking school in Grass Valley, California.

Dugan launched this Westsail in 1982. She sailed near her birth place for many years, then made the bash down to Baja California where she sailed until the current owner bought her.

We sailed in the Gulf of California for a year before crossing to mainland Pacific Mexico, down the Pacific coast of Central America to Panama and through the Panama Canal. We sailed in Panama for a year.

This year we sailed from Panama across the Caribbean Sea to Cancun, to Isla Mujeres, up through the Yucatan Straights to the Florida Straights and Key West, where I had listed her home port, where she had never been. We skipped most of the keys, Miami and Fort Lauderdale offshore riding the Gulf Stream. I think she’s itching to see the Bahamas. A little turn to starboard would have landed us there. Or Bermuda. Or the Azores and the Canary Islands. Who knows? You know.

Brisa is now sailing the northeastern United States Atlantic coastal waters. You’re getting a boat maintained in sailing form, not sitting on the hard or in a slip.

Contact to get the tracking link, for her current location exactly, and with questions.

https://brisa.uy/2024/05/15/Westsail-32-Brisa-For-Sale.html

Equipment: The motor is a Universal Westerbeke M-50B, 43hp installed around Y2K, with currently 2500hrs. Regular oil changes, zinc replacements, and clean fuel keep her running well. All maintenance by the current owner, since 2020 is logged.

She will come with an inReach and iPad mini. She has a Vesper AIS installed new in 2021 with dedicated VHF and GPS antennas. The Navionics app knows how to connect to it for very accurate position, direction, speed over ground. Recently replaced Uniden UM725G VHF with new 1/2 coax running up the mast to a new Shakespeare antenna is in the salon with a remote station in the cockpit. Depth sounder. In a locker, find a working, older radar setup removed when installing the AIS. She carries an iCom IC-M710 SSB complete with tuner and antenna that functions to get weather faxes.

She has a Monitor wind vane that has worked fabulously and is aging. It is amazing when it is in operation. It is worth $1k as trade-in toward a new one. Also installed are two tiller pilots: a Pelagic and a TP20. She sails a close reach hands off, tiller free. Forces are always light with good sail trim.

The sail inventory includes a mainsail new in 2023, a staysail, and three foresails. The foresails are: a 60% jib, 100% yankee, and 130% genoa. (Those are estimated percent of the area of the triangle formed by mast, forestay, and deck.) There is also a storm trysail that runs on a separate track from the main.