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The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes sailing events, the Westerly Owners Association. [5] In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "best features: She will sit on a half-tide mooring, thanks to her twin keels. A flatbed trailer will serve as a road conveyance. If a dodger is added, headroom becomes almost six feet.
They started off in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on 11 December 1866 amid high westerly winds and raced to The Needles, the furthest westerly point on the Isle of Wight, famous for its lighthouse. Bennett's Henrietta won with a time of 13 days, 21 hours, 55 minutes. [8] [9] In April 1867, Bennett purchased the yacht L'Hirondelle for $75,000 from ...
The Westerly 22 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a Gunter rig or an optional masthead sloop rig, a spooned raked stem, an angled transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a twin fixed keels. It displaces 3,150 lb (1,429 kg) and carries 1,050 lb (476 kg) of ballast.
The design was initial built by Westerly Marine in United States but Fibre Mechanics based in Lymington in England were soon added to increase production capacity. The initial 20 boats are all owned by the New York Yacht Club based in Newport, Rhode Island.
Event Host Boats Sailor Ref. Ed. Date Year Host club City Country No. Nat. Cont. 1: 6-16 Jan: 1982 Middle Harbour Yacht Club: Mosman Australia 40: 6+ 4+ [1]2: 6-16 Oct: 1982
Watch Hill sits at the most southwestern point of Rhode Island on a stubby peninsula jutting into Block Island Sound. [6] It includes a smaller peninsula known as Napatree Point, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km)-long sandy spit that extends west from the Watch Hill business district, and Sandy Point, which was once attached to Napatree Point.
In December 1866, J. B. Van Deusen of the New York Yacht Club was a judge on the Fleeting in a race between three American yachts, the Vesta (owned by Pierre Lorillard IV), the Fleetwing (owned by George and Franklin Osgood) and the Henrietta owned by Bennett. Each yachtsman put up $30,000 in the winner-take-all wager.
30 foot (9.1 m) Westerly 30 sloop: Fastnet Rock single-handed (and rowed the Atlantic) Inishmore 1 June 1968 retired Recife, Brazil 21 July 1968 Chay Blyth: Dytiscus III 30 foot (9.1 m) Kingfisher 30 sloop no sailing at all (but rowed the Atlantic) Hamble 8 June 1968 retired East London 13 September 1968 Robin Knox-Johnston: Suhaili 32 foot (9. ...