Jay,
Whoever told you the 33 was a Westsail factory boat was not telling you the truth. The 33 was built by a company in Australia, and they used the Atkins lines to delvlope their own boat. They started calling it a Westsail only because the Westsail Corp. had already gone out of business, and they wanted any publicity they could get. I checked with the original owner of Westsail, and he said he never did give any permission for another company to use the name, at least as long as he was running the company. He did not know what Westsail International did though, as they took over in 1977 after the bankrupcy, and ran the company until 1980, when they closed down completely.
