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Il Westsail 32, come la flotta lo ha visto
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The Westsail 32 is a 9.8-meter cutter-rigged sailboat, built from 1971 to 1981, known for its long keel and transom-hung rudder. Designed by William Crealock, W. Atkin, and Colin Archer, it is a fiberglass adaptation of William Atkin's THISTLE design. Westsail Corporation built 834 hulls, with approximately 400 sold as kits or bare hulls, leading to variations in rig dimensions and ballast. Jerome Rand has sailed his Westsail 32, *Mighty Sparrow*, on multi-week passages, including a transit from North Carolina to Cape Cod, navigating heavy shipping traffic and offshore wind farm construction south of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.6:29 Aboard *Sailing Into Oblivion*, Rand used Navionics on an iPad for primary navigation, supplemented by paper charts.1:43:57 He also singlehanded a Westsail 32 named *Montagna* from Fort Pierce, Florida, to Bermuda.33:53 Rand experienced a knockdown in the North Atlantic while crossing the Gulf Stream, where wind-against-current conditions created large, breaking waves, tearing an external structure of metal piping and solar panels from the hull.45:14 He cut the structure free to prevent damage and planned to replace a damaged GPS antenna and install new solar panels.19:51
