Westerly Marine Ltd. Pentland 32

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The Westerly Marine Ltd. Pentland 32, on the water

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Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

Shoal draftDraws 1.10 m, board up where she has one — creeks, sandbars and thin anchorages most keels have to stay out of.

LivelySea-kindly

Her heavy displacement on a narrow beam gives 31 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 31

CoastalBluewater

1.71 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.

Capsize screening 1.71

LightHeavy

312 — heavy for her waterline, built to carry stores and ride steadily.

Displacement / length 312

EasygoingPowered-up

12.1 — modest power for her weight; easygoing rather than lively, and happier with a breeze.

Sail area / displacement 12.1

TenderStiff

41% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 41%

Built heavy and sea-kindly — a boat made to cross oceans and forgive a rough night.

Draws less than ~96% of boats her size on file
Narrower than ~75% of boats her size on file

Compared with 2837 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Westerly Marine Ltd. Pentland 32, as the fleet has seen it

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The Westerly Marine Ltd. Pentland 32 is a 9.9-meter twin-keel masthead sloop or ketch, designed by Laurent Giles and built by Westerly Marine Ltd. from 1973 to 1980. It shares its hull with the Berwick, Longbow, and Renown models. The Pentland 32 features a center cockpit, which allows for an expansive aft master cabin with an island berth and private head. Its displacement is 4960 kg, with a beam of 2.9 meters and a draft of 1.1 meters.2:05 The ketch variant has a sail area of 49.6 square meters.

The living fleet

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Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

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The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

40.6%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Masthead Sloop

Ratios

SA / displacement

12.1

Displacement / length

312.4

Comfort ratio

30.9

Capsize screening

1.71

Hull speed

6.7 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

849

Hull

Hull type

Twin Keel

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Iron

Production

Years built

1973–1980

Units built

241

Designer

Laurent Giles, Jack Laurent Giles

Builder

Westerly Marine Ltd

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The family

Related models

The designs closest to hers — usually the rest of the builder's range, sometimes the same hull sold under another name.

Westerly Marine Ltd. Renown 32A masthead ketch-rigged center-cockpit cruiser featuring a fin keel and skeg-mounted rudder for stable offshore passage Westerly Marine Ltd. Longbow 31A fin-keeled masthead sloop with a skeg-hung rudder, offering a stable, traditional aft-cockpit cruising layout Westerly Marine Ltd. Berwick 31A twin-keeled aft-cockpit sloop built on the proven Longbow hull, optimized for stable coastal cruising in shoal water Westerly Marine Ltd. Pembroke 26A fin-keeled alternative to the Centaur, offering improved windward performance with a 1.3m draft Westerly Yacht Construction Ltd Pageant 23A Laurent Giles-designed twin-keeler with a high ballast ratio, built for stable, shoal-draft cruising Westerly Marine Ltd. Centaur 26Westerly's most successful model, this twin-keeled masthead sloop remains the most popular British production cruiser of her size

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