A Global Family Of Sailors The Wharram World circles the globe. Wharram catamarans have been built and are sailing in all the World's oceans and can be found in far away ports and anchorages. With over 10,000 sets of Plans sold since the 1960s this is not surprising. Many of the builders and sailors of
Based on the 1960s TANE design with more beam and higher freeboard, she can be built in foam/GRP sandwich or in plywood. The Classic hull seaworthiness of the TANE encouraged many people to make ocean passages on her. We designed the TANENUI in 1973 to give these people on a low budget a sturdy, seaworthy
The Tiki 46 is a boat designed for Blue Water sailing, with live aboard space for a crew of up to 10. She also makes an excellent charter vessel with 4 private double cabins and an extra double in the deckpod. Plenty of safe deck space and slim hulls for easy, fast sailing, not requiring
Can be carried on your car roof and easily fits the decks of a larger design to be used as a sailing day boat. Designed for 2-4 people to cruise estuaries, on lakes and, when the weather is settled, to go coastal trekking. The Hitia 14 will sail straight off the beach. Its easy economical
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Ocean Cruiser Charter Double Canoe Catamaran The Islander 55 is a smaller version of the islander 65 and is eminently suitable for charter use or as a large ocean cruiser. Her interior can again be simple flexispace, or she can have up to 5 separate double charter cabins. Andy Smith Boatworks are the exclusive builders
Coastal Trekkers To Long Term Live Aboards From the car trailable Tiki 21 - winner of the 1982 Cruising World Design Competition, to the Tiki 46, a spacious ocean cruiser or charter boat, the TIKI range offers car trailable coastal trekkers to long term live aboards. Although a Tiki 21, a very popular coastal trek
The most famous and intensively studied of Britain's 3,000 or so deserted medieval villages, Wharram Percy occupies a remote but attractive site in a beautiful Wolds valley.
Our largest self-build boat design that is capable of being towed behind a vehicle. This means keeping the build weight down, and simple but adequate accommodation. This is not a high cost, luxury boat, but an elegant, versatile, 'double canoe' sailing boat, providing basic comfort for 'Living on the Sea'. With a sleeping capacity of
The Tiki 21 was designed in 1981 as an easy to build Coastal Trek catamaran, using new epoxy/glass stitch & glue techniques. In 1982 the new and then quite radical Tiki 21 was given first prize by Cruising World magazine (USA) in their design competition for a ‘Trailable Gunkholer’. Since then nearly 1000 Tiki 21
The TIKI 38 was designed using all the latest Wharram construction innovations. Her deckpod gives good shelter when ocean cruising and includes a bunk for the off-watch crew. Forward of the deckpod is 26 Sqr metres of safe, usable deck space. An excellent family cruising boat. The TIKI 38 interior comprises two double cabins, two
By James Wharram and Hanneke Boon 1991 Foreword - James Wharram, 2004 It is 50 years since I designed my (and Britain's) first offshore Sailing Catamaran. The accepted opinion at the time, expressed in Yacht Magazines, was that the offshore catamaran would break up in high sea waves, that their motion on the high seas
A list of the main written, visual and material sources for current knowledge and understanding of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village.
Wharram Mana 24 Catamaran
A journey through my life………
Aboard Ontong Java On the 16th March I moved onto another boat. Largyalo was expecting a group of guests, who would be sailing on to St. Maarten. My new home for the next two weeks was Ontong Java. She had crossed the Atlantic a week after us and was moored off the beach in Port
By James Wharram and Hanneke Boon 2004 Translated and adapted by Jean-Yves Poirier This article is also available in English Foreword One man above all has kept the memory and achievements of the French pioneer of modern catamarans, Eric de Bisschop, alive. This is James Wharram, who in 1944, at the age of 16 bought
A traveller/workboat with ramp access at stern. She has open hull cockpits with removable tough awning covers, ideal for fishing. For workboat use she has a Wingsail schooner rig, with two short masts. Can sleep 4-6. More about Tiki 31
The Pahi 63 is a tribal boat, suitable for expedition sailing and for larger groups of people to cruise or eco-charter. The deck/accommodation layout resembles a village, with a central public area including ‘well’ and (optional) ‘hearth’, surrounded by private cabins. This centre deck and the separate aft and fore deck areas give three large
