Westerly Solway 36 for sale in Gillingham United Kingdom

Deck Equipment

• Anchor (Bruce 15kgs) plus Danforth 
• 50m Chain/Warp
• Windlass (Quick electric)
• Mainsail cover
• Spinnaker pole
• Cockpit enclosure
• Halyard bags
• Boarding ladder
• 7 x Fenders
• 4 x Mooring warps
• Stainless steel wind generator frame

Navigation Equipment

• Compass (Plastimo Offshore 105)
• Depth (NASA Clipper)
• Speed/Log (NASA Clipper)
• Wind/Direction (NASA Clipper)
• VHF Radio (Standard Horizon)
• VHF Handheld Radio (Standard Horizon)
• GPS/Chartplotter (Raymarine E120)
• Integrated Radar (Raymarine)
• Autopilot (Raymarine)
• Navigation lights
• Masthead light
• Clock/Barometer

Safety Equipment

• 2 x fire extinguishers
• 1 x Engine room fire extinguisher
• Fire blanket
• Gas alarm
• Smoke alarm
• 2 x Jackstays
• 2 x Cockpit harness points
• Deck light
• 2 x Horseshoe lifebuoys
• Liferaft (Waypoint 4 person requires service)
• Emergency tiller
• 1 x Manual bilge pump 1 x electric bilge pump
• First aid kit
• Radar reflector

Items Re-Fitted

1. Keel stub reinforcement
2. Installation of two further bulkheads below cabin sole.
3. New rudder and sea cocks throughout.
4. New stainless steel fuel tanks.
5. Install Caterpillar C2.2 55hp engine with ancillaries.
6. Complete re-wire with LED lighting and shore power.
7. Renew upholstery throughout.
8. New instrumentation.
9. Install inboard self-steering.
10. Replace all running rigging.
11. Replace forestay.
12. Install powered anchor winch
13. Install calorifier and replace all plumbing and pumps.
14. New oven and gas fittings.

History and Construction

It's now 1974 and Westerly were outselling every other yacht business following the success of the Centaur and the W31s so they wanted to introduce a larger 36' range and did so with the Conway family designed by Laurent Giles. Introduced a year after the Conway the Solway was a Conway with twin keels. Available as a centre cockpit, twin keel, sloop or ketch, most Solway’s were commissioned as ketches. This is before the days of roller reefing, so ketches were easier to handle. For the first time in a Westerly design access to the aft cabin was from the main saloon. They also came with 4 different interior layouts and customers were allowed to incorporate their own modifications.

Sail and Spars

The Westerly Solway is ketch rigged, with masthead mainsail, with anodised aluminium deck stepped masts, and Selden booms 2001, stainless steel standing rigging 2001, Terylene running rigging 2018, slab reefing mainsail with lazyjacks, and furling headsail by Schaefer.

Winches

2 x Sheet winches (Lewmar 44 self-tailing)

3 x Halyard winches (Lewmar 14 two self-tailing)

2 x Other winches (Lewmar 30)

Sails

1 x Mainsail (2001 Crusader good condition, valeted 2020)

1 x Genoa (2001 Crusader good condition, valeted 2020)

1 x Mizzen (2001 Crusader good condition)

1 x Mizzen Staysail

1 x Cruising Chute

Mechanical System

Powered by a Caterpillar C2.2 four-cylinder 55hp diesel engine, with indirect cooling, shaft drive to a 3 bladed propellor with rope cutter. Single lever Morse control. 120 litre fuel capacity in two stainless steel tanks. Last engine service March 2022, last out of water maintenance April 2022. Some service history available.

Electrical System

2 x 12-volt 105Ah domestic batteries, 1 x 12-volt 110Ah engine battery, charging from the engine alternator. Shore power connection, 12-volt battery charger with Victron energy blue power battery management system.