Jim Conlin wrote:

The Westsail 32 is a direct descendant of John Hanna's Tahiti ketch,

But he's simply wrong.

The Westsail 32 lines are a slight modification of this boat:

http://www.boat-links.com/Atkinco/Sail/Eric.html

which itself was based on lines scaled down from the original Colin Archer
pilot boat. I help but think that Akin's "borrowing" of the lines from
someone else was a factor in Westsail feeling free to "borrow" them from
Atkin. I doubt that they would have done it with a design that Atkin drew
from scratch. For that matter, if they went back to the same book Atkin
did, they could have produced the identical boat.

The Tahiti ketch is a similar type but quite different proportions. I think
the Atkin/Colin Archer boat is the better one, myself.

--
Roger Long