1977 Westerly Conway 36

Westerly Conway 36, built 1977 - Sensibly priced at £29,500 ‘Laurelin’ is a fin-keeled, center-cockpit example of the prized Conway ‘family’ built by Westerly between 1974 and 1983. She has what was termed the ‘B’ accommodation layout; namely with a galley in the walk-through to the aft cabin and a hullside facing, stand-to chart table to starboard side of the companionway. With sail number CY128 and built in 1977, she could be described as a late MK1 example. Professionally epoxied beneath the waterline and then ‘Coppercoated’ in 2012 and subsequently fitted with a modern Beta Marine replacement engine in 2023 (still with just 73 hrs of running time), huge amounts of other people’s money has been spent on this particular example in recent years. She’s also fitted with modern instrumentation, replacement sails (dating from 2004 to 2011) a ‘wet’ heating system with radiators and has been re-lined and re-upholstered throughout. This has just got to be the centre-cockpit ketch to consider. She will be of interest to anyone looking to spend long periods aboard and/or wanting to go long distances shorthanded. Many more photos are available from our ‘cloud’- based files, contact us for access. Description of Accommodation, commencing from forward: Forward Cabin: A large ‘V’-shaped berth with in-filling cushion to provide a double berth. Deep stowage lockers beneath the ‘head’ end of the berth, with a stainless steel tank occupying the hull volume beneath the middle of the berth. Deep-fiddled shelves for storage to either side, supplementing a hanging locker with two shelves behind the doorway into the cabin. Step to assist in climbing into what is a relatively high berth. A small (300x600mm) thermostatically valved radiator is fitted to the bulkhead between this cabin and the heads compartment. Two opening portlights (nicely polished and relatively recent) combine with a forward-facing opening hatch overhead to provide light and ventilation. Heads compartment: A comparatively large compartment has been retrospectively fitted with a stainless steel handbasin set into the work surface and is provided with hot and cold water through a mixing tap and a shower-type faucet. This supplements an earlier/original mixer with shower head that is fitted to the rear bulkhead of the compartment, within a shower curtain’s rail. Note: the shower’s greywater pump has been removed. Another 300x600 radiator is fitted within the compartment. An opening portlight provides light, with a ventilator fitted overhead. Saloon: This features two parallel and single berths, both provided with lee clothes for the occupants’ comfort and security at sea and to either side of a centre-line mounted, double leafed table. Rather neatly, the fiddles to the central section of the table are removable, thereby offering an uninterrupted, flush surface across the full width of the table, providing convenient space for the necessary amount of crockery. There is ‘oodles’ of stowage, wi