1977 Westsail 43 Factory — Katura

Katura is a factory finished and excellently maintained example of this ideal cruising boat. Her current owners spent three years, 2013 to 2016, stripping her to the bones for a complete refit at serious expense. Every tank was replaced  two custom aluminum fuel tanks totaling 200 gallons, four new 40 gallon water tanks and an 80 gallon fiberglass holding tank. New electrical panel, new wiring, new hoses, and every through hull serviced. The rudder has been rebuilt with new core. The mast step is now solid glass.   Hull, topsides and deck are Awlgrip. She never had teak decks, and she looks near new now.

She came to these owners right off a Seattle to South Pacific cruise, where she was found for sale in Australia; shipped to Vancouver and trucked to Holland, Michigan in 2001. Since then she has lived in fresh water, sailed about four months a year and spent the other eight under full covers down to the waterline. You will find no trace of her salt water years. Bilges are clean, lockers are clean, the stainless shines and she smells like a new boat.

Below is a traditional teak interior with exposed deck beams and 6’3″ headroom. Varnish is in good to excellent shape. The real teak and holly sole is quality feature above common plywood veneers. All upholstery and foam was new at refit. The bronze portlights were pulled, polished and rebedded with new glass and custom bronze screens, plus screens on the hatches too. Five large deck prisms bring real daylight below. She has large bookshelf’s with room for a proper library. There is storage everywhere, and then even more storage under the storage, every cabinet locks and latches, and many have their own lights. Lee boards on the saloon berths make them proper sea berths. Red and white lighting, oil lamps, and a handy cabinet by the companionway for dry, quick access gear. She has a large workbench setup forward with tool cabinets (with lights in them!) and another work bench by the engine room for quick small jobs.  The engine room itself is a crawl in with good access all around, and ample lighting from a prisim and LED. 

On deck she carries a new 2026 Lofrans Tigress windlass, 60 lb and 45 lb CQRs with 300′ of 3/8 BBB chain, dodger, bimini and spray panels. Solar is mounted on tilting arms to chase the sun angle. Garmin electronics include the GPSMAP 741XS, GMR18HD radar, GHP12 autopilot and SiriusXM weather. A Monitor windvane, stored off the boat, comes with her. The backstay is already insulated as an SSB antenna if you want to add a radio.

Sails: the main is still very nice. The jib and staysail are older but the cloth is good. Canvas is good throughout. 

For power, she has the highly regarded and emminently reliable Perkins 4-236 – it is original and runs like  atop, and with continued proper care it always will.  Parts are abundant and economical too.

The designs reputation speaks for itself. Only 61 Westsail 43s were completed, all on the hull Crealock drew as a no compromise passagemaker. She has a Ted Brewer comfort ratio of 44.16 and a capsize screening value of 1.65, numbers that put her firmly in serious offshore territory. Full keel, 31,500 lbs, cutter rig with small, manageable sails. She can take the ground without drama, carries a load without complaint, and her 62.5′ air draft clears the ICW bridges. 

If your plan is coastal exploring with bluewater legs between the ‘good’ places, and you want to leave this season instead of in three years, this is the boat.

Contact me for more info or to get your offer in today – [email protected]

Full details

Accommodation

Katura is a traditional aft-cockpit Westsail 43 featuring a beautifully finished teak interior, exposed deck beams, brightwork headliner, and teak and holly cabin sole. All upholstery fabric and foam have been replaced.

The accommodation includes an aft stateroom with a double berth, a quarter berth, a saloon dinette to port that converts into a double berth, and a forward cabin with a V-berth and filler cushion. Both saloon settees are equipped with leeboards. A single head with shower serves the vessel.

Interior Comforts and Amenities

Galley

• Adler Barbour Super Cold Machine refrigerator with air and water cooling, LED running indicator, freezer box, stainless steel liner, and teak shelving
• Large produce cool box
• Shipmate (3) burner LPG stove with oven
• Xintex S-2A propane/CNG monitor and fume detector control
• Vented propane locker
• (2) 22 lb horizontal aluminum LPG tanks
• Rail-mounted Magma grill with cover
• Backlit overhead glass rack
• Flatware and silverware included

Water System

• Shurflo water pump with accumulator
• PVC (3) way ball valve, union, FNPT, 1-1/2″
• Shurflo pullout faucet
• Ambassador Marine shower/mixer faucet combination
• Whale Lever Galley MXR faucet
• Precision Instruments water heater
• (4) Kracor 40-gallon water tanks
• SeaTech (3) way selector
• Bosworth Sea-lect diverter valves

Heating and Ventilation

• Newport diesel cabin heater with 10-gallon day tank (stored off the boat and not normally used)
• (5) Caframo Sirocco 12V cabin fans, black

Interior Dimensions

• Standing headroom: 6’3″
• Forward V-berth: 78″ L x 89″ W
• Starboard settee: 85″ L x 45″ W
• Port settee: 89″ L x 45″ W
• Aft cabin berth: 89″ L x 47″ W
• Quarter berth: 69″ L x 28″ W

Interior Lighting

• LED interior lighting
• 7″ red/white LED interior lights
• Aqua Signal 16″ LED ceiling lamp
• Stainless steel LED berth reading lights
• 18″ LED interior rail lights
• Dr. LED engine room light
• Lunasea wall-mounted LED map/chart lamp

Head and Holding Tank System

• Lavac Popular manual U/D toilet
• Lavac Popular seals and repair kit
• SeaLand TankWatch 4 water/holding tank monitor

Electronics and Navigation

Garmin Navigation Equipment

• Garmin GPSMAP 741xs chartplotter
• Garmin P79 in-hull depth transducer
• Garmin VHF 200 radio
• Garmin GHS 10 VHF handset microphone, black
• Garmin GMR 18 HD radar
• Garmin GHP 12 autopilot ECU
• Garmin GHP Reactor CCU autopilot
• Garmin GHC 20 autopilot control
• Class B compact autopilot drive unit, #12030334
• Garmin GXM 53 satellite weather and SiriusXM audio antenna
• Garmin gWind Nexus
• Pre-cut rail mount for Garmin GPSMAP 741 series
• Pre-cut rail mount for (1) instrument with 3.6″ opening

Navigation and Exterior Lighting

• Hella NaviLED port running light, black, red, 2 NM
• Hella NaviLED starboard running light, black, green, 2 NM
• Hella NaviLED stern light, black, white
• Hella NaviLED masthead light, white, 3 NM, Model 2LT 959 940-211
• Hella NaviLED 360° anchor light, white, 2 NM, Model 2LT 980 910-011
• Lumatec LED spreader lights
• Lumitec GAI2 positionable LED light
• Steaming light

Communications and Instruments

• Shakespeare 5215 3′ Classic VHF Squatty Body antenna
• Davis Instruments Windex 15 wind indicator
• Wind instrument

Entertainment

• Fusion MS-RA210 marine stereo
• Fusion MS-BX3020 Dual 4 Zone speakers

Electrical Systems

Electrical Distribution and Charging

• Blue Sea Systems 120V AC/DC electrical panel
• Blue Sea Systems WeatherDeck waterproof (6) position panel
• Professional Mariner ProIsoCharge power distribution system, (3) battery, 120
• (5) Blue Sea Systems 12V dual USB charging sockets, panel-mounted
• Wagan Tech Elite 400W pure sine wave inverter
• (2) shore power cords

Batteries

• (4) US 145 6V deep-cycle batteries
• (1) 12V engine-start battery

Solar Power

• (2) Solarex MSX 77 solar panels
• (1) Solarex X100GT solar panel

Additional Equipment

– Aqualarm bilge pump counter

Deck and Hull Equipment

Anchoring and Mooring

• Lofrans Tigress windlass (2026)
• Primary anchor: 60 lb CQR with 300′ of 3/8″ BBB anchor chain
• Secondary anchor: 45 lb CQR with chain and rode
• Danforth stern anchor stored in lazarette
• 200′ three-strand anchor line on a rail-mounted spool for stern anchoring or securing to shore
• West Marine premium pre-spliced three-strand anchor line

Deck Hardware and Equipment

• (9) large bronze opening ports, removed, polished, fitted with new glass and gaskets, and rebedded
• (4) smaller opening ports with new glass and gaskets
• (4) rebuilt overhead hatches
• Marinco 4″ stainless steel Day/Night Solar Nicro Vent
• Monitor wind vane (stored off the boat)
• Chelsea Ship’s Bell clock in hinged brass case
• Chelsea Ship’s Bell barometer in screw brass case
• Weems & Plath DHR trawler lamp

Canvas and Cockpit

• Canvas dodger with zippered Isinglass panels
• Bimini

Sails and Rigging

Sails

• Fully battened mainsail, Simon Willis, 472 sq. ft. (1998)
• 143% genoa, Simon Willis (1998)
• Staysail/Yankee/Cutter sail, Simon Willis (1998)
• 110% Yankee working jib
• Free-flying reacher with Vectran luff wire (Disco sail)
• Hank-on drifter with roller-furling slide included but not sewn on
• Storm mainsail/trysail on separate track
• 70% storm jib
• 3/4 oz spinnaker
• Running rigging for all sails

Rigging

• ReefRite headsail roller furling system
• Harken lead block kit
• Oversized backstay and forestay
• Spare rigging wire for any stay
• Norseman-type terminals
• Mainsail lazy jacks
• Running backstays
• Vangs used as preventers

Winches

• Barient 32ST primary cockpit winch
• Barient 23ST secondary cockpit winch
• Barient 23ST staysail winch
• Barient 28ST halyard winch
• Barient mast-mounted halyard winch
• Barient boom reefing winch

Mechanical Equipment

Pumps

• West Marine washdown pump
• Rule automatic bilge pump, 500 GPH
• Whale Gusher 10 MK3 manual bilge pump
• Johnson bilge pump, 4,000 GPH

Safety Equipment

• ACR GlobalFix I Pro EPIRB
• Plastimo man-overboard pole
• Fireport
• Flares
• West Marine throw rope
• (4) Kidde H110G dry chemical fire extinguishers
• Kidde Pro 2.5MP fire extinguisher
• Weems & Plath SOS electronic flare
• Smoke detector
• Lifesling
• Type I personal flotation device
• Type II personal flotation device
• Crewsaver inflatable personal flotation device
• Jacklines
• Lifelines (1999)
• Ladder
• Masthead diffusion rod for lightning protection

Engine Information

• Perkins 4-236 marine diesel inboard engine, 85 HP
• Engine serial number: S236U-1900882
• Engine panel replaced during refit with TAD panel, displaying approximately 1,600 hours
• Borg-Warner Velvet Drive V-drive transmission
• Walbro marine fuel pump
• Delco-style 65A standard alternator
• Balmar 100A alternator
• Engine workshop manual included

Dinghy

• West Marine 10.2′ RIB
• Hull identification number: CNWMPWM004F020
• Tohatsu MFS 9.9 ES outboard motor
• Outboard serial number: 006979AH
• Portable running light
• West Marine handheld VHF 75 radio

Tankage

*Fuel, water, and holding tanks were replaced during the 2013–2016 refit.

Fuel

• (2) custom-built, resin-coated aluminum fuel tanks, 95 gallons and 105 gallons
• Kracor 20-gallon polyethylene day tank

Fresh Water

• (4) Kracor 40-gallon freshwater tanks
• Total freshwater capacity: 160 gallons

Holding

– Custom-built fiberglass holding tank, 80 gallons

Tank Capacities

• Fuel: 200 gallons (main tanks)
• Fresh water: 160 gallons
• Holding: 80 gallons

Owner’s Comments and Boat History

Previous owners sailed the boat from Seattle to the South Pacific. We found her in Australia. She was shipped on a container ship to Vancouver, BC, and we purchased her there. She was then trucked to Holland, Michigan, in 2001.

We sailed her around the Great Lakes until her previous life in salt water caused issues that needed attention, especially corrosion and leaks in the water, fuel, and holding tanks.

We love Katura, and it will be bittersweet when she sells. We spent three years, from 2013 to 2016, completely stripping her and refurbishing every inch of her.

The company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change or withdrawal without notice.

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Listed by BVI Yacht Sales; specs and price as published by the broker — on the market here since October 2026. Confirm details with the broker directly.