60th Anniversary of Wharram Tangaroa
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- 60 years ago, on the 27th September 1955, James Wharram set sail from Falmouth aboard a self-built 23’ 6” flat-bottomed double canoe (now called catamaran) called TANGAROA with two German girls as crew. His quest was to sail the Atlantic to prove the double canoe was a seaworthy vessel.
As a ‘Marine Archaeologist’ and disciple of the Frenchman Eric de Bisschop, who had sailed a 38ft double canoe from Hawaii across 3 oceans to France in 1939, he wanted to prove the theory that the Polynesians could have sailed from South East Asia in canoe craft and thereby show that Thor Heyerdahl was wrong in his theory that they had sailed from South America in sailing rafts.
This video shows the celebration in Devoran of this event. Guest of honour was Rory McDougall who sailed a Tiki 21 round the world in the 1990s, the smallest catamaran to do so. Centre stage is the Mana 24, the latest Wharram catamaran design to be built from a CNC cut plywood kit. The same length as TANGAROA, she has made James Wharram's career as a designer of self-build catamarans come full circle.
See Tangaroa in Falmouth in 1955 by Pathé news: www.youtube.co....
Further info on Wharram catamarans: wharram.com/site/
I enjoyed building a wharram design.
Brilliant !!! ****cheers**** =)
Sorry I missed this... what a great occasion and celebration, with a fine speech by guest of honour Rory McDougall, who sailed his Wharram Tiki 2, called 'Cooking Fat,' around the world in 1991-97.
Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic!
Congratulations, J.W. {and Hanneke}!
Nice drunk speech from Rory! 🤩
The V- hulls make no sence. To much wet surface and no reserve bouyancy. Round bottom hull designs are much superior in speed and comfort.
Hi Gabriel! You are right that a deep vee has a bit more wetted surface than a fatter hull. This means that a Wharram Tiki such as ours would tend to 'stick to the water' in very light airs, when compared with racing monohulls such as the J/80 fleet who were craned in and out every weekend in our home port, back in the day. Anything over a few knots of breeze and we could hold them - once over 7 knots we were gone. This is a home built cruising cat vs a fleet of sports-racing monohulls of similar size and double the price.
Like you, I felt that this was not acceptable performance!
So we made a truly huge sail for these conditions, which was christened the "luggaker", since it was a 360 square foot lugsail hoisted on the spinnaker halyard. Cost us less than $40 to make it from polytarp. With this, our home built Wharram would unstick before even the Farrier Trimarans - the sail area was more than enough to overcome the relatively small additional wetted surface drag.
You are sadly entirely wrong that there is "...no reserve buoyancy." in V-hulls.
There is plenty!
In fact Vee hulls inherently carry higher reserve buoyancy than other configurations, because they get wider at the top. That bit is where your reserve buoyancy resides! Bit obviious.
The softer ride at high speed is a bonus, and makes all the difference when coming off a big wave in Biscay. This is why so many successful high speed ocean-going power boats use vee hulls. Round-bilge hulls can pound badly at higher speeds than most sailors see.
Wharrams are not perfect, granted. But in terms of seaworthiness and performance for money spent, I know of no better.
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Thank you for explaining this in more detail. I have learned something today.
What does your insurance think about unsticking your boat.
Are you comparing sailing catamarans to high speed V bottom powerboats. You lost me there mate.
The narator utterly butchered the name of that boat.
You need to show at least enough respect and pronunce it properly
What is that name.."Cooking Fat"? Hilarious ...now try to exchange the C with the F.....;-) Mr. Mc Douguell you'll da man.