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West wight potter 19

The west wight potter 19 is a 18.75ft fractional sloop designed by herb stewart and built in fiberglass by international marine (usa) since 1979..

The West wight potter 19 is a light sailboat which is a reasonably good performer. It is very stable / stiff and has a low righting capability if capsized. It is best suited as a day-boat.

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West Wight Potter 19 Boat Reviews

Boat Review Date: November 2009 Author: Mike Brown Overview

A 21 st century trailer sailer. It might not have the catchiest of names, but I found everything else about the West Wight Potter 19 delightful. The concept of trailer sailers has always struck me as a good one, and I have never worked out why interest in them died. I am happy to say to this one, “Welcome back.”

And boy, have they come on in the meantime. The typical trailer sailer of the 70s was skimpily finished, had so-so fittings and equipment, and many of them sailed poorly. An exception that comes to mind was the Windrush centre cockpit boat, a very good sailer but on the claustrophobic side for cruising - something the Potter is not. This boat has excellent sailing ability, top of the range gear, first class finish, day and night space for four, and a good cruising fit-out – all within an overall length of only 5.64m.

And for a price of $39,500, it is worth mentioning. How much powerboat would you get for that? And what would the relative running costs be? The review Potter had a 5hp Suzuki on the back, and the brief time it would run each trip would add up to small change in a year.

Costs aside, this is a great little yacht in its own right. Hard chined instead of the near universal round bilge, it has buoyancy in useful places. With three large males in the cockpit it did not drag its tail, and when hit by gusts the heeling was surprisingly limited. The drop keel also helped there; unlike the usual swing keel it is a dagger board of 19mm galvanised plate that lowers to a respectable 1.09m draught. It is raised and lowered by a winch next to the helmsman and, once down, is secured in place by four Highfield clips.

The dagger board case takes up little cabin space and forms part of the structure of the moveable table, although the cockpit table is likely to get more use. This other table is an ingenious part time use of the washboard at the cabin entrance.

The cabin, Tardis-like, has room for an astonishing number of items. Bunks forward, converting to a double bed; bunks aft extending under the cockpit seats; a one-burner stove, a sink and an icebox; a chemical toilet; a battery and 12v outlet, and there is even a reasonable amount of storage space. The whole interior is easy to clean because the hull is double-skinned with foam filling (importers Seagreen Marine specified the optional heavy lay-up for the outer skin), giving a smooth and hard surface except for the carpeted headliner. Oiled timber trim relieves any starkness.

This is a genuine weekend cruiser for a family or even two adult couples. Locally its natural grounds would be between Yanchep and Mandurah, and its easy trailing means they could be one-way trips. Trailing weight is 980kg on the braked trailer, so it is towable by practically any car. And portability extends its stamping ground to anywhere in Australia; Shark Bay and the Montebellos are obvious targets, and one prospective owner has Lake Argyle in mind. En route, the Potter makes a great caravan.

For most of it life, though, a Potter 19 will be a day boat, like typical trailable power cruisers, and it needs some sparkle in its performance to do the job. A generous sail area is a good start; Seagreen bring the Potter in with the biggest headsail option, and mount it on a furler. Combined main and genoa area is 181sq ft in old money – an exceptional power: weight ratio for this class of boat.

The rigging supporting the sail area is simple: forestay, backstay and single shrouds. Getting the mast up from its neatly designed supports is just about as simple. The builders supply a set of gear along the same lines as the A-frame for raising and lowering masts of cruisers at the Fremantle bridges, but with two halfway fit adults available it is easier to do it handraulically. There is no great muscle power needed, and I timed the job at less than ten minutes.

The Suzuki motored us clear of the ramp with urge to spare, but I suspect the suggested minimum 2hp would be gasping into any strength of wind or current. We then had the use of a 10-15 knot breeze and exposed the full sail area to it.

The results were very good: we could sustain five knots and reached a peak of 6.2 in the gusts. We were up to hull speed but that big headsail became fairly hard work. The sheeting arrangements would have suited the smaller sail options and the generally lighter US east coast winds, but more purchase was needed here. Nice gear like sheet tracks and low friction blocks was laid on, but only a single whip purchase and no winch. No one would want to complicate things with a winch, but Seagreen’s Steve Green intends converting all the Potters’ headsail sheets to a 2: 1 purchase.

The cockpit works well. Four could comfortably sit in it, and there is nothing interfering with movement. There are no cavernous storage bins (and who needs them), but there is a useful transom locker. There are also fore and aft grab rails, and access to a boarding ladder.

The headsail furler proved its worth even more than on a bigger cruiser. Getting to the foredeck was OK but needed full use of all the handholds, and going via the fore hatch instead to bring the sail down would have been fiddly. Much easier to slack the sheet and haul the furler line. Where you need the fore hatch is for anchoring. Unlike many US trailer boats the Potter has a good capacity cable locker, also reachable through a hatch within the cabin, and the anchor is provided with a clip on the pulpit – a simple and effective piece of stowage.

The single most impressive pieces of hardware on board are the opening ports. Massively strong, spring loaded and equipped with powerful dogs and flywire, it would not look out of place on a destroyer – except for the shiny finish. But everything else on board seemed to have a healthy safety margin too, especially the chain plates, which past trailer sailers specialised in under-engineering

I looked around for maintenance items, but apart from the varnished tiller nothing needed periodic re-coating. Some oil here and there, emptying of the toilet and some hosing and sponging seem to about cover the rest of it. I am completely sold on the Potter 19, and I despair for the taste of our boating population if it does not sell in numbers. It was one of the few review boats I had to be politely ejected from. I did not want to go home.

SPECIFICATIONS

Model:                                              West Wight Potter 19

Overall length:                                  5.64m

Beam:                                              2.29m

Draught:                                           0.10m (keel up)

                                                        1.09m (keel down

Boat weight:                                     468kg

Keel:                                                136kg

Sail area:                                          Main 8.18sqm

                                                        Genoa 8.46sqm

Fresh water capacity:                          57l

Motor fitted                                        5hp Suzuki 4-stroke

Price as reviewed (plus motor):           $39,500

West Wight Potter 19 Sailboat Review

An Easy Sailing Boat

© Judy Blumhorst

The West Wight Potter 19, like its smaller sister the 15, has been a popular pocket cruiser sailboat for over three decades. Inspired by an original design in the U.K., it is now built by International Marine in California. A number of improvements have been made over the years, while the boats still retain the original look and have attracted a large, dedicated group of followers. They are still shown at select major boat shows in the U.S.

The Potter 19 is popular not only because it's a tough little boat that is easy to sail but also because it's a lot of boat for its length. Its hard-chine hull offers good stability and has a high freeboard to help keep the cockpit dry, and it's a very easy and forgiving boat to sail. The cabin is big enough for a couple to "camp" in comfort for short cruises. The Potter 19 has even been sailed across the Atlantic and from California to Hawaii!

Description and Features

Description.

• Length overall: 18 feet 9 inches
• Length waterline: 16 feet 4 inches
• Beam: 7 feet 6 inches
• Draft 6 inches (keel up), 3 feet 7 inches (keel down)
• Displacement: 1225 lbs
• Keel weight (ballast): 300 lbs
• Mainsail: 89 sq. feet
• Headsail: 53 sq. feet (jib), 93 sq. feet (genoa)
• Mast height: 22 feet above deck, about 27 feet above waterline
• Standard trailer weight: about 500 lbs
• Can be found used in good condition for about $5000 and up

Key Features

The following comes standard with a new Potter 19 in the select package. Not all features were standard in previous years, so used boats may vary.

• Galvanized keel retracts vertically with easy-to-use cockpit winch
• Kick-up rudder allows for beaching
• Anchor rode locker with hawsepipe/air vent
• Mahogany companionway door
• Adjustable transom motor mount
• Teak handrails on cabin top
• Stainless steel swim/boarding ladder
• Running lights, anchor light
• Butane-canister single-burner stove
• 15-gallon water system with deck fill
• Sink with hand pump
• Marine porta-potty in built-in cabin area
• Custom galvanized trailer
• Stainless steel mast crutch (for trailering)

Optional Features

• Opening ports with screens
• Built-in 36-quart cooler
• Jiffy reefing system
• One-person mast-raising system
• Colored hull and/or deck
• Colored sails
• CDI furler for headsail
• Singlehanders package (lines to cockpit, etc.)
• Genoa winches
• Asymmetrical spinnaker

Sailing a Potter 19

Because it is a small, lightweight boat, the Potter 19 is easy to trailer without a special vehicle. The deck-stepped, hinged mast can be raised by one person with the mast-raising system, or two without, making it a simple matter of less than an hour's work to do everything before launching. Since the boat draws only 6 inches with the keel raised and the rudder hinged up, it launches easily at almost all boat ramps.

Many owners have led the lines to the cockpit to enable sailing without having ever to go up on deck, assuming you have the CDI furler as most owners do. Even to raise the mainsail without the halyard routed aft, a tall sailor can stand inside the cabin on the side berths just behind the mast and easily pull up the main and cleat off the halyard. Sail slugs attached to the boltrope are advised and make this a one-handed operation that takes only seconds.

The hard chines of the hull mean that the boat is slower to heel much beyond 10 to 15 degrees than boats with a rounded or V hull, and the chines also tend to throw bow spray out to the sides instead of back toward the cockpit. The trade-off, the one disadvantage when sailing, is that the boat pounds its nearly flat hull when sailing into waves or the wakes of other boats.

On any small sailboat, it is important to position crew and passenger weight to advantage (i.e., most weight on the windward side to minimize heel), but this is not a problem with a cockpit large enough for four adults to be comfortable. The relatively heavy drop keel, unlike the lighter centerboards of many trailerable sailboats, provides good, deep ballast for increased stability. Under full sail with a genoa, the boat may begin to heel excessively with the wind over about 12 knots, but the main is easily reefed and the jib partly furled to reduce heel. The P-19 moves well in as little as 5 knots of wind and quickly reaches its hull speed around 5.5 knots in a 10-knot breeze.

Most owners power with a 4 to 6 HP outboard. The long-throw adjustable motor mount allows using either a short- or long-shaft outboard. Unless there are significant waves or a strong headwind, the boat powers easily at 5 knots with the engine well under half power.

The Potter owners association includes many stories written by different Potter sailors about their experiences. There are very few reports of capsizing or serious problems, always due to a mistake by the sailor, such as forgetting to lower the keel or cleating the sails in tight and then turning broadside to the wind. When sailed correctly, the Potter is probably safer than most sailboats of its size. A brand-new sailor, as with any sailboat, is advised to have some form of sailing instruction before venturing out the first time, but the Potter 19 is a good boat on which to learn the basics.

The Interior of a Potter 19

The Potter 19 makes good use of its interior space. Although cruising on any small sailboat tends more toward camping than the luxury of walk-around space as on a larger cruising boat, the Potter 19 is more comfortable than others its size. Its four berths are all almost 6 and a half feet long, and there is good storage underneath. Still, it would be a rare foursome that would cruise more than a night or so. But there is plenty of room for two to sleep and use the other berths for gear duffels and provisions.

The single-burner butane stove works well for one-pot meals, and the sink is handy for limited use. (There is not a through-hull drain, however: you carry off or dump your "gray water" from its reservoir bag.) Many owners have been quite creative in arranging storage bins and otherwise making use of the available space. A cooler can be slid under and behind the companionway steps, for example, if your boat lacks the built-in cooler.

Bottom Line

Of the wide variety of small trailerable sailboats on the market, the Potter 19 better meets the needs of owners who want to do some cruising than almost others, which at this length are typically designed more for daysailing than overnighting.

Because Potters have been around so long, it is not difficult to find one used in many areas. But because they are also very popular within their niche, they also sell at somewhat higher prices than other trailerables even up to 22 feet or more. If you can afford it, it's worthwhile to stretch for Potter if you like its looks and want its space - you won't be disappointed.

If you’re thinking about a trailerable sailboat like the Potter 19, remember that one of the great advantages is the ability to easily take it to other sailing destinations, such as heading to the Florida Keys in the winter.

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First impressions Designed by Herb Stewart, who originally bought the U.S. rights to the original Potter 14, the West Wight Potter 19 is a salty pocket cruiser. It was originally called the HMS 18. Steward later sold the company to Joe Edwards. Edwards decided to include the outboard motor bracket in the measurement of LOA, and suddenly the boat grew a foot and became the West Wight Potter 19. From the springy sheerline to the forward chine, the boat has the look of other small English cruisers that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. There isn't much overhang-the LOA is 18 feet, 6 inches and the LWL is 16 feet, 6 inches resulting in a faster boat than many suspect, at least when the wind is blowing. The retractable keel lifts vertically into the hull. When fully raised the draft is just 8 inches. Together with the kick-up rudder the boat can be sailed right up on the beach. When the 300-pound keel is fully deployed the draft is 3 feet, 7 inches, although the keel can also be trimmed to various levels. The fractional rig supports a good size main and most boats on the used market have overlapping genoas in lieu of a working jib. Despite the small size, by all accounts the Potter 19 needs a bit of breeze to get up to speed.

Construction One of the reasons the West Wight Potter 19 and her smaller sister, the 15, have endured while other small boats and small boat builders have come and gone is that the Potters are built solidly. International Marine, which has been building the boats since the early 1990s, upgraded the construction. While all the boats have solid fiberglass hulls, International Marine switched from plywood cored decks to balsa and refined the molding process. The centerboard is a simple, dependable design with no moving parts. Closed-cell foam enclosed fore and aft makes the 19 unsinkable, a design feature that all small boats should include.

What to look for Some owners of older, mid-1980s boats have reported slight structural problems with the centerboard trunk. Early boats and later boats had very sturdy trunks. Beefing it up with additional glass and epoxy is not an overwhelming project and to be fair, very few owners have noted this problem. There are many Potter sites online and one of the best is Judy B's West Wight Potter pages at www.blumhorst.com/potterpages. Owners discuss the good and the bad about the boats, but I must tell you there seem to be very few well-documented problems. Most Potter 19s are simply rigged and fitted out, items to watch for include all the normal age-related issues. International Marine has a good supply of applicable parts available, a big plus when buying an older used boat. Don't forget to carefully inspect the trailer too. The cost of a new trailer can spoil the savings made with a good boat buy.

On deck The best design feature of the Potter 19 is the cockpit. Two adults have room to stretch their legs, the visibility is great and all the lines are typically led aft. The forward chine tends to deflect the water aside, keeping the cockpit relatively dry even in choppy conditions. Newer boats have a much improved nonskid pattern on deck and there are handrails on both the raised and lower sections of the cabintrunk. A husky bowsprit has always been part of the deck package and newer boats include a chain locker. The mainsheet is a bit awkward. It angles down from the end of the boom, forcing the helmsman to keep clear. The jib sheets and the centerboard winch are well placed, making the 19 a perfect boat for sailing solo. The key to any trailerable boat is the degree of difficulty in raising the mast. The Potter 19 has an air draft of around 25 feet with a 22-foot, 6-inch mast section. Most owners report that they can be sailing in less than hour from arriving at the launching ramp. A clever mast raising system lets one person hoist the stick. Many of the used 19s on the market include CDI flexible furling on the headstay.

Down below Lets face it, there isn't much a designer or builder can do with a 19-foot boat's interior. Still, the Potter 19 will surprise you. The headroom is just five feet but that's better than most comparably sized trailersailers. There interior includes four berths, two forward and two quarterberths aft. A galley of sorts is sandwiched between the berths with a butane stove to starboard and sink to port. One of the impressive interior features is the amount of storage. There are lockers under the berths, under the sink and stove and seat back bins as well. There really is plenty of space for comfortable weekend sailing. Think of the Potter 19 as a campersailer. There are many accounts of Potter 19s making long cruises. I encountered a 19 in the Abacos last summer, with a crew of three adults aboard and they were spending a month cheerfully cruising the Bahamas. If a previous owner has installed opening portlights be thankful and if not, consider adding them. Ditto for the forward hatch. Two items that I'd do away with include the indoor outdoor carpeting that decorates the sole of most used 19s and the porta potty located under the forward bunk. It is not only a waste of space, it stinks, and is a pain to deal with when it's full. Consider a bucket.

Engine New West Wight Potters come standard with five-horsepower long-shaft Tohatsu outboards. Most used boats also have five- or six-horsepower outboards, although they might be a variety of makes. Nissan seems popular on several of the boats currently on the market. An adjustable motor bracket makes the outboard more efficient in the water and easier to lift completely out of the water when sailing. Also, an electric start engine allows the possibility of charging the batteries. Many Potters have had their electrical systems upgraded and include two batteries. Small solar panels are a logical addition to keep the batteries topped.

Underway The West Wight Potter 19 is not going to win races but nobody buys it to win races. The boat needs a bit of breeze to get moving but that's not a bad thing in a trailerable boat and conversely the 19 can carry sail when other boats are fleeing back toward the launching ramp. The hull form limits heeling and is relatively dry-hey all 19-foot boats are wet when sailing upwind in any kind of seaway-but by way of comparison the 19 is downright comfortable. Owners report speeds of 5 knots in winds of 10-knots-plus when reaching. The boat is well balanced on a reach, and most owners suggest carrying as big a headsail as you can afford. New boats come standard with an overlapping headsail, which is 110 percent. Upwind sailing is the not the Potter 19's strong suit, it doesn't like to sail much closer than 50 degrees apparent.

Conclusion The West Potter 19 is an enduring favorite among small boat sailors both in England and North America. It is well built and designed, simply rigged and safe to sail in blustery conditions. There are lively owner's associations and continued support from the factory. It can be towed and launched by a compact car from virtually any ramp. And it is affordable. Used prices range from around $5,000 for the oldest models to around $12,000 for late models. What's not to like about this salty pocket cruiser?

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West Wight Potter 19

The West Wight Potter 19 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Herb Stewart as a cruiser and first built in 1971. [1] [2] [3]

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Stewart developed the boat from the West Wight Potter 14, a British design he had bought the US rights to. The design was originally marketed by the manufacturer as the HMS 18 . [1] [4]

The design has been built by International Marine in Inglewood, California , United States since 1971 and remained in production in 2017, with more than 1600 completed. [1] [4] [5]

The West Wight Potter 19 is a recreational keelboat , with a hard chine hull, built predominantly of fiberglass , with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem , a vertical transom , a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller , and a vertically lifting fin keel . It displaces 1,225   lb (556   kg) and carries 370   lb (168   kg) of ballast. It is equipped with closed cell foam flotation and is unsinkable. [1]

The boat has a draft of 3.58   ft (1.09   m) with the lifting keel extended and 0.50   ft (0.15   m) with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer . The keel is retracted from the cockpit by a winch and fully retracts. [1] [6]

The boat is normally fitted with a small 3 to 6   hp (2 to 4   kW) outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. [1] [3]

The galley consists of a sink to port and single-burner butane stove to starboard. There is sleeping accommodation for four people and seating for five and a portable head . The manufacturer claims the boat can be rigged and launched from its trailer in 45 minutes and can also be single-handly rigged and launched. Cabin headroom is 55   in (140   cm) . [6] [3] [7]

The design has a hull speed of 5.5   kn (10.2   km/h) . [3]

A 2008 review by John Kretschmer noted, "while plenty of Potters have made impressive passages, most are sailed quietly on lakes, bays and coastline all over the country. Most importantly, they're almost universally admired by the folks who own them, and for good reason. The boat is stable in the water, it can stand up to a breeze, it's surprisingly commodious, it's easy to launch and can be trailed behind almost any vehicle. Mounted on its trailer the West Wight Potter 19 fits snugly in most garages, which eliminates the cost of dockage and winter storage." [4]

Mike Brown wrote a review of the design in 2009, stating, "it might not have the catchiest of names, but I found everything else about the West Wight Potter 19 delightful ... I am completely sold on the Potter 19, and I despair for the taste of our boating population if it does not sell in numbers. It was one of the few review boats I had to be politely ejected from. I did not want to go home.". [8]

In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, "best features: The WWP 19 shares many of the positive features listed for the WWP 15 ... including the ability to sail in adverse conditions (up to a point). Her longer LOD, higher headroom, and two feet of extra beam relieve some (but perhaps not all) of the claustrophobic feeling of the WWP 15 ... Worst features: The WWP 19's high, slab-sided hull—which of course give her a lot more than her share of cabin space—detract from her looks. And we wonder what the damage would be to her keel trunk if her vertically sliding keel collided with a rock ledge at five or six knots." [3]

In a 2019 review Tom Lochhaas wrote, "of the wide variety of small trailerable sailboats on the market, the Potter 19 better meets the needs of owners who want to do some cruising than almost others, which at this length are typically designed more for daysailing than overnighting." [7]

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• ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2019). "Herb Stewart" . sailboatdata.com . Archived from the original on 24 August 2019 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
• 1 2 3 4 5 Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats , page 65. International Marine / McGraw-Hill , 2010. ISBN   978-0-07-163652-0
• 1 2 3 Kretschmer, John (10 November 2008). "West Wight Potter 19" . Sailing magazine . Archived from the original on 10 February 2019 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
• ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2019). "International Marine (USA)" . sailboatdata.com . Archived from the original on 24 August 2019 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
• 1 2 International Marine (2004). "West Wight Potter 19" . www.westwightpotter.com . Archived from the original on 21 January 2018 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
• 1 2 Lochhaas, Tom (24 May 2019). "Review of West Wight Potter 19 Sailboat" . liveabout.com . Archived from the original on 24 August 2019 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
• ↑ Brown, Mike (November 2009). "West Wight Potter 19 Boat Reviews" . Yacht Hub . Archived from the original on 19 February 2018 . Retrieved 23 August 2019 .
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Boat Review Date: November 2009 Author: Mike Brown Overview

A 21 st century trailer sailer. It might not have the catchiest of names, but I found everything else about the West Wight Potter 19 delightful. The concept of trailer sailers has always struck me as a good one, and I have never worked out why interest in them died. I am happy to say to this one, “Welcome back.”

And boy, have they come on in the meantime. The typical trailer sailer of the 70s was skimpily finished, had so-so fittings and equipment, and many of them sailed poorly. An exception that comes to mind was the Windrush centre cockpit boat, a very good sailer but on the claustrophobic side for cruising - something the Potter is not. This boat has excellent sailing ability, top of the range gear, first class finish, day and night space for four, and a good cruising fit-out – all within an overall length of only 5.64m.

And for a price of AUD $39,500, it is worth mentioning. How much powerboat would you get for that? And what would the relative running costs be? The review Potter had a 5hp Suzuki on the back, and the brief time it would run each trip would add up to small change in a year.

Costs aside, this is a great little yacht in its own right. Hard chined instead of the near universal round bilge, it has buoyancy in useful places. With three large males in the cockpit it did not drag its tail, and when hit by gusts the heeling was surprisingly limited. The drop keel also helped there; unlike the usual swing keel it is a dagger board of 19mm galvanised plate that lowers to a respectable 1.09m draught. It is raised and lowered by a winch next to the helmsman and, once down, is secured in place by four Highfield clips.

The dagger board case takes up little cabin space and forms part of the structure of the moveable table, although the cockpit table is likely to get more use. This other table is an ingenious part time use of the washboard at the cabin entrance.

The cabin, Tardis-like, has room for an astonishing number of items. Bunks forward, converting to a double bed; bunks aft extending under the cockpit seats; a one-burner stove, a sink and an icebox; a chemical toilet; a battery and 12v outlet, and there is even a reasonable amount of storage space. The whole interior is easy to clean because the hull is double-skinned with foam filling (importers Seagreen Marine specified the optional heavy lay-up for the outer skin), giving a smooth and hard surface except for the carpeted headliner. Oiled timber trim relieves any starkness.

This is a genuine weekend cruiser for a family or even two adult couples. Locally its natural grounds would be between Yanchep and Mandurah, and its easy trailing means they could be one-way trips. Trailing weight is 980kg on the braked trailer, so it is towable by practically any car. And portability extends its stamping ground to anywhere in Australia; Shark Bay and the Montebellos are obvious targets, and one prospective owner has Lake Argyle in mind. En route, the Potter makes a great caravan.

For most of it life, though, a Potter 19 will be a day boat, like typical trailable power cruisers, and it needs some sparkle in its performance to do the job. A generous sail area is a good start; Seagreen bring the Potter in with the biggest headsail option, and mount it on a furler. Combined main and genoa area is 181sq ft in old money – an exceptional power: weight ratio for this class of boat.

The rigging supporting the sail area is simple: forestay, backstay and single shrouds. Getting the mast up from its neatly designed supports is just about as simple. The builders supply a set of gear along the same lines as the A-frame for raising and lowering masts of cruisers at the Fremantle bridges, but with two halfway fit adults available it is easier to do it handraulically. There is no great muscle power needed, and I timed the job at less than ten minutes.

The Suzuki motored us clear of the ramp with urge to spare, but I suspect the suggested minimum 2hp would be gasping into any strength of wind or current. We then had the use of a 10-15 knot breeze and exposed the full sail area to it.

The results were very good: we could sustain five knots and reached a peak of 6.2 in the gusts. We were up to hull speed but that big headsail became fairly hard work. The sheeting arrangements would have suited the smaller sail options and the generally lighter US east coast winds, but more purchase was needed here. Nice gear like sheet tracks and low friction blocks was laid on, but only a single whip purchase and no winch. No one would want to complicate things with a winch, but Seagreen’s Steve Green intends converting all the Potters’ headsail sheets to a 2: 1 purchase.

The cockpit works well. Four could comfortably sit in it, and there is nothing interfering with movement. There are no cavernous storage bins (and who needs them), but there is a useful transom locker. There are also fore and aft grab rails, and access to a boarding ladder.

The headsail furler proved its worth even more than on a bigger cruiser. Getting to the foredeck was OK but needed full use of all the handholds, and going via the fore hatch instead to bring the sail down would have been fiddly. Much easier to slack the sheet and haul the furler line. Where you need the fore hatch is for anchoring. Unlike many US trailer boats the Potter has a good capacity cable locker, also reachable through a hatch within the cabin, and the anchor is provided with a clip on the pulpit – a simple and effective piece of stowage.

The single most impressive pieces of hardware on board are the opening ports. Massively strong, spring loaded and equipped with powerful dogs and flywire, it would not look out of place on a destroyer – except for the shiny finish. But everything else on board seemed to have a healthy safety margin too, especially the chain plates, which past trailer sailers specialised in under-engineering

I looked around for maintenance items, but apart from the varnished tiller nothing needed periodic re-coating. Some oil here and there, emptying of the toilet and some hosing and sponging seem to about cover the rest of it. I am completely sold on the Potter 19, and I despair for the taste of our boating population if it does not sell in numbers. It was one of the few review boats I had to be politely ejected from. I did not want to go home.

Model:                                              West Wight Potter 19

Overall length:                                  5.64m

Beam:                                              2.29m

Draught:                                           0.10m (keel up)

                                                        1.09m (keel down

Boat weight:                                     468kg

Keel:                                                136kg

Sail area:                                          Main 8.18sqm

                                                        Genoa 8.46sqm

Fresh water capacity:                          57l

Motor fitted                                        5hp Suzuki 4-stroke

Price as reviewed (plus motor):           AUD $39,500

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If you are a boat enthusiast looking to get more information on specs, built, make, etc. of different boats, then here is a complete review of WEST WIGHT POTTER 19. Built by International Marine (USA) and designed by Herb Stewart, the boat was first built in 1979. It has a hull type of Lifting Keel and LOA is 5.72. Its sail area/displacement ratio 16.10. Its auxiliary power tank, manufactured by undefined, runs on undefined.

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WEST WIGHT POTTER 19 is 5.11 m in length.

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Changes to a West Wight Potter 19?

Discussion in ' Sailboats ' started by Blam , Feb 19, 2020 .

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Hi all, I'm interested in hearing what you think about the possibility of making some changes to a WWP19. The changes I'm thinking of include lightening up the centerboard, adding a tabernacle to make it easier to drop the mast on the water and looking into the possibility of losing all but the front stay to simplify setup and speed up getting onto the water when daysailing. I realize the boat was designed for and sails well with the steel centerboard as is but I wonder if a hybrid centerboard made of mahogany/steel or aluminum/steel would still keep some weight down low and perform almost as well while allowing me to get rid of the winch and singlehand a little easier. Eventually I'd like to winter in the Keys so quick and easy operation would be a plus. Adding weight with a tabernacle and losing righting force with a lighter centerboard might mean looking into a carbon mast or downsizing the rig. If anyone has any suggestions on other production boats that might be a good match for a swap I'd be interested in hearing your suggestions and reasoning. Let me know what you think, if it's not really feasible I'd like to hear that too. Thanks!  

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Welcome to the Forum Blam. It sounds like you already have a WWP 19? I had to go to the trusty Sailboat Data website to find out a bit more about her. SailboatData.com - WEST WIGHT POTTER 19 Sailboat https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/west-wight-potter-19 It mentions that the ballast is 370 lbs - is all of this in the steel centreboard, or does she also have some internal ballast as well? If all the ballast is in the centreboard, then she will become rather tender if you start removing weight from it. The drawing in the link is not very clear - is it a daggerboard, or a pivoting centreboard? You mention wanting to fit a tabernacle - yet you also want to do away with the standing rigging apart from the forestay, and that will be rather difficult (if not impossible) to do with a tabernacle. Free standing masts are usually keel stepped, and are designed to be cantilevers. What sort of budget is available for this project? I am thinking that even it is just you spending the winters on board in the Keys, a 19' boat is still going to become very small fairly quickly if you are living on board.  

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Homes in Potter County sold for higher prices recently: See how much here

Newly released data from Realtor.com for May shows that potential buyers and sellers in Potter County saw houses sell for higher than the previous month's median sales price of $142,804.

The median home sold for $172,736, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means May, the most recent month for which figures are available, was up 21% from April.

Compared to May 2023, the median home sales price was up 5.3% at $172,736 compared to $164,091.

Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months' delay in up-to-date data. The statistics don't include homes currently listed for sale, and aren't directly comparable to listings data.

Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.statesman.com .

Looking only at single-family homes, the $172,736 median selling price in Potter County was up 21% in May from $142,804 the month prior. Since May 2023, the sales price of single-family homes was up 9.7% from a median of $157,461.

No single-family homes sold for at least $1 million or more during the month.

Condominiums and townhomes increased by 20.2% in sales price during May to a median of $152,343 from $126,699 in April. Compared to May 2023, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was down 25.2% from $203,556. No condominiums or townhomes sold for at least $1 million or more during May.

In May, the number of recorded sales in Potter County rose by 15.4% since May 2023 from 228 to 263. All residential home sales totaled to $24.3 million.

In Texas, homes sold at a median of $323,631 during May, up 1.6% from $318,666 in April. There were 39,854 recorded sales across the state during May, down 15.3% from 47,031 recorded sales in May 2023. 

The total value of recorded residential home sales in Texas increased by 7.2% from $7.8 billion in April to $8.4 billion this May. 

Out of all residential home sales in Texas, 0.09% of homes sold for at least $1 million in May, down from 0.6% in May 2023.

Sales prices of single-family homes across Texas increased by 1.9% from a median of $318,868 in April to $324,930 in May. Since May 2023, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was down 0.7% from $327,287. 

Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes dropped 1.6% from a median of $309,198 in April to $304,101 during May. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is up 0.7% from the median of $302,013 in May 2023. 

The median home sales price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. The median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average sales price, which would mean taking the sum of all sales prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high sale.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com . Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here . This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.

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2002 West Wight Potter P-19

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2002 Potter 19 with trailer Mast raising system Nissan 4 stroke 5 HP New Hyde sails Roller furling jib Kick up rudder Sink Head Stove LED lighting Newly covered cushions in Sunbrella material including cockpit cushions Swim ladder Anchor with rode Bimini top Depth finder (Hawke) Solar battery charger with controller

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Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

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