This document was created from the scan of an original "Westsail 32 Factory Build Manual". The original manual that accompanied the Westsail 32 on delivery was a photocopy of the manual used in the Westsail factory, during the build process. It was clearly never intended to be a production manual, but were included with each boat upon delivery. When one considers that these boats were built from 1972-1980, it's understandable that the quality of a photocopied document was somewhat lacking, even when it was new. Add 35 years or so of humidity and general aging and you end up with a document that's hardly worth the paper it's printed on. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of indispensable information to a Westsail owner, within its 465 pages.

Knowing how helpful this document could be if it were legible, I invested about 200 hours into digitally enhancing every page of the scanned original. I then indexed each page, creating a searchable PDF. During the "image optimization", all of the smudges, paper-punch holes, cock-eyed alignment, frequent "grid paper" backgrounds, etc, that were inherent in the photocopy Bill had to work from have all been removed, making every page legible.

The final document is presented here as a 130 mb Adobe Acrobat PDF file, at a cost of $15, plus $5 shipping and handling (Continental U.S. only). That's a rather minimal investment, when one considers the time required to putting the document together and how much greater is its usefulness, now that it can actually be read.

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The download file is in a "ZIP" format of approximately 108MB in size. Once extracted, the final document is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (about 130mb in size). Depending on your internet connection, it may take quite a while to download. If you are accessing the internet via a dial-in modem or slow WiFi connection, you would be advised to wait until you have access to a faster method to connect to the internet before attempting to download the file. Alternately, you can have a copy of the manual mailed to you on a CD at a charge of $15, plus $5 shipping and handling (Continental U.S. only).

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