30 WATERLINE
WESTERING
Forerunner to the Salthouse 32 Bob Salthouse designed a little timber displacement launch for Wally Brebner in 1962, after the two had met while cruising around the bottom end of Waiheke in the Hauraki Gulf.
Kempthornes until the 1987 sharemarket crash, following which the moulds were returned to the Salthouse Marine Group. In the early 1990s the Salthouse Marine Group re released the boat as the Coastal 32. Salthouse later bought Westering and owned her for about five years. Westering is now on the market with Brian Worthington from the Gulf Group Marine Brokers, Tauranga. Westering is 10.7m LOA with a 3.4m beam and a draft of 1m. Powered by a 110hp Nissan giving 8.5 knots cruising speed. She has five single berths, a toilet, shower, fridge freezer, two burner oven, hot and cold pressure water.
Westering was built by Ponsonby boat builder Sam McGrady. The hull is kauri, carvel planked over frames. The cockpit is teak trimmed with solid mahogany coamings. Brebner owned Westering for 25 years. Salthouse built three others in timber single skin on ribs, and he returned to Westerings’s links in 1985 when Whangarei boatbuilder Kip Kempthorne commissioned him to design a 9.5 metre version of the ILB 760 launch that they had been building. Around 10 glass hulled KB960 boats were built by
Electronics include VHF, auto pilot GPS/Plotter, fish finder, CD player, walk through transom, capstan, full cockpit covers, bimini two stations, solid mahogany coamings, Westering in immaculate condition and a credit to her present owner. Westering is on the market for $99,000