Nelson, Reichel/Pugh, Tom Wylie, Tim Kernan, Fred Courouble and Rob Perry are all among these, as well as Farr Yacht Design based over on the other coast.
In more recent years among their projects have been some impressive performance multihulls: the 66ft cat Extreme H2O and the 65ft cat Kalik, both from Morelli and Melvin, a 42ft trimaran with C-foils from Fred Courouble called Girlfriend, and the 45ft fast cruising cat Vamanos from VPLP.
The latest raceboats to come out from Westerly were the series production of 20 IC37 one-designs designed by Mark Mills for the New York YC. Two years ago Barry Carroll was the manager of this project and expressed a continued stream of praise for how the team at Westerly could produce custom-level quality at the modest production price targets.
Lynn and Steve recently circulated a letter to the design com- munity saying that after 50 years, ‘It has been a good run, but as of today we will no longer be accepting new production orders. Over the next weeks we will complete existing projects, wind down oper- ations and liquidate assets. As we move toward retirement we will be shifting our business model and offering our services to the marine, composite and private sectors for manufacturing consul- tation, estimating, materials supply and project management. ‘Above all we would like to express our thanks and gratitude to our customers, associates, employees and the sailing community for their confidence and support throughout the years.’ Allow us to express our thanks to Lynn, Steve and the team at Westerly for doing their part to fulfil the dreams of many of those customers and their crews.
One by one
To say Jim Grundy is a sailing enthusiast is a gross understatement. In the last decade he has owned and campaigned five raceboats, ranging from a Melges 32 to a Premier Composites-built HPR Car- keek 47, from a 1960s-era Tripp-designed Columbia 50 to a Harry Dunning-designed Goetz-built turbo-charged 42-footer. He and his mostly amateur, family-based team have raced the local inshore courses in Newport and the Chesapeake to short offshore races in the SORC to the biennial Newport-Bermuda Race, which Grundy won in the Columbia 50. He also owned the classic 100ft timber schooner Summer Wind for a while before donating her to the US Naval Academy. Summer Wind was a regular on the classic yacht racing circuit, winning her class in the 2009 Newport Bucket. Grundy’s latest racing platform is a no-compromise 45ft custom Dunning design built at McConaghy in Australia with an eye towards the ORC/IRC Worlds at New York YC. With that regatta cancelled and the boat arriving in mid-summer in Newport, the latest Rigadoon has now been commissioned and has started with some local racing until the postponed New York Race Week events are held at the end of the season.
In the Around the Island Race, among 86 entries, Rigadoon scored second overall with local PHRF ratings, not bad for a boat straight out of the box. Grundy explained the design brief for Rigadoon and how it’s a development from his previous project, the 42ft Grundoom. This boat caught recent attention for being the victim of a micro-burst weather incident in Palm Beach, where it was thrown down on its side in its cradle by the 100kt+ winds, breaking the mast and sustaining what turns out to be repairable damage in the stern quarter of the hull. There is apparently a new owner who no doubt will bring this boat back to the racecourse. ‘With the previous boat we wanted a low-cost non-carbon yacht, but still light enough to be first to get up on the plane offwind,’ he said. ‘But as soon as we went upwind we suffered, especially in waves. In our research for the new boat we did some 30 CFD runs of hull shapes and have selected one that is more favourable for upwind sailing but without losing too much downwind.’ Grundy admits he’s not looking for any long offshore races in the new boat, which has a deck design definitely more suited for day racing. He says it does comply with Cat A standards, but for more than an overnight race would be an athletic submariner’s event to race offshore. Regardless, it’s great to have a new high-tech carbon race yacht joining the US fleet. Dobbs Davis
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