Hello all,

I became the owner of #441 this past fall.  She (JURA) hasn't seen water for 5 years as she has been in storage.  I am so grateful that this web site and forum exists.  I imagine us all as sharing similiar sensibilities regarding boat design.  It's nice knowing you are out there to be a resource for me as I (we) venture ahead.  We are truly privileged to own these wonderful vessels!

Paul: Welcome aboard - do keep in touch and if you have an online photo album started be sure to add the url to your membership profile.

Jay

W32 #441 JURA is an exceptional Westsail 32.  I was somewhat involved with the second owner, a doctor from NC, who purchased the unfinished (actually never really started on) kit from the first owner, after it had been sitting alongside his garage in Durham, NC for about 15. years.

I have lots of stories to tell about JURA, but the first one is choice.  When I went to survey the kit in Durham for the doctor, the trees had grown up all around the boat, and there was a two foot high pile of empty beer cans all around the stern.  Seems as though the first owner would tell his wife every night he was going out to work on the boat.  His version of work was to sit in the cockpit, drink beer, dream about building and finishing the boat, and chuck the empties overboard.

The truckers had to cut down the trees and clean up the beer cans to get the boat onto their trailer to move the boat to Wrightsville Beach, where the doctor had the boat built.