Ohhhhh man!! Thank you guys for the opportunity!! This was such a fun chat! I’m so honored to share the story and hopefully inspire others to follow their dreams and join the sailing community!! Thank you again Tim!
Hey great project you have. I love following Wildlings with a Wharram. I hope you have contacted Daneke who was James Wharram’s partner. She’s based not far from where I live in the UK and she’s super helpful. I’m subbed to you now and feet of luck. Andy UK
@@AndyUK-CorrivalI’ve definitely have started conversations with her! I’m hoping we will be able to get her blessing and help in finishing this vessel! Time will tell, but it would be a honor to get her help.
Hopefully you stop taking native species and importing them to non-native lands since they just end up becoming invasive where they get sold. Put your talents solely towards documentation of these animals and your sailing travels.
I used to be a professional boat builder, composites technician and a sailor. I want to build a new boat for my retirement and if I were to build such a boat. It would be a Wharram. Although 51' is a bit larger than I would want to self build. I like the 40' platform for a single hander or a couples boat. Knowing what i now know, I think I would use composite panels rather than plywood. I love working with good marine ply. But for longevity and rot resistance i would go with something like Divinycell. I really look foward to the day that I am living aboard my boat and travelling. This man is awesome and onto something great!
Thank ya! All the reasons why we made this decision! Not to worry about rot was the biggest factor, making this a vessel we can trust in most tropic environments! I can’t wait to have it ready and sailing very soon!
@FatherBlue I'm watching your vids right now. They're a great way to start off the new year! I was just over there last year in Singapore and Indonesia. I was initially going to use Indonesian Ironwood Plywood for my build but the economics of starting a new build over there just couldn't work for me and I realized that if I went back to the US I could afford to build with all composites. The boatsmith has his moulds up for sale. I just saw them listed this past week. I'm really considering buying a set. It's a long hard road building a big boat like this. I worked for several years building two 70' Donzis for a builder in Ft. Lauderdale, with a team of guys and all the money and tools available and it was still really difficult. So I commend you for your vision that you have made actionable and brought to life! Growing up, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and James Wharram became my next greatest hero as a boat building maritime archaeologist. I am also an archaeologist now and I want to spend my last years exploring the S. Pacific. Thank you for your response.
Great job, The next couple years are going to be quite a ride for you. I've never been on a boat up to 4 years ago and now can't keep my wife and myself off the boat. Sailing's a whole New world. Enjoy it.
Cool! I can't wait to see how it progresses. Keep us posted! I really like having an interesting interview like this every once in a while. Good to know what people are doing out there with boats.
I used to own a Wharram Tiki 38. I sailed it solo for a few years and then sold it when my plans changed. The 38 was what O considered the minimum for reasonably comfortable living aboard and ocean sailing. Your 51 will be great for what you plan on using it for. Being built for composited will also help reduce the big issue with older Wharrams, "rot". Even the best maintained plywood boat is susceptible to it. Good luck with the adventure.
Yes , I follow his channel 👍 the kids got a lotta guts and determination which will see him through to having a pretty fine boat to live on when he's done 👍🙏😸
I'm amazed at how much roomier the hull interiors are on this 51' boat compared with Marks 42 footer. I've watched all his vids since he got the Wharram, and am pleasantly anticipating going back to episode 1 for some bingeing.
Thanks, Tim. Great interview. I'll definitely follow his adventures, both in learning about his boat and sailing, as well as his research on endangered and unknown species. Thats very cool. He's definitely "Living the Dream "
Hello from Ireland again, Tim. Jesus, what a guy, so Humble lol. I just Subscribed to his Channel. I'm watching Mark, from the UK build his Wharram in Holland. He will love this, Guy. Happy New Year, Tim and Family. Stay Safe buddy. 🙏🙏👌👏👏👏👏👏
Damn, this is huge in every way. I've never heard of Wharrum, but I read "Hartley" boat plans over & over as a kid. Looking forward to seeing her sail. Thanks & Happy New Year to Tim & everyone. 🇦🇺 ⚓
"Oh, Father Blue What shall I do? Bought a giant Wharram Cat And not sure yet what to do." "Oh Father Blue What shall I do? This bloody thing's enormous Did I bite off more than I can chew?" "Oh Father Blue We all love you We loved your boat story so much We'll follow to see what you will do." Happy New Year 2025. To You and to your family and to Tim and everyone. Love from The Isles of Skye Highlands of Scotland 🏴🧡
Your positive attitude, energy and enthusiasm for sailing is highly infectious and inspires others. Even an old salt with 40+ years' cruising the 7c's on my 3 trip round. You inspired it. You deserve it. All the best shipmate. See you round the pond one day. Slàinte Mhath! 🥃💥🥃 Cheers & HNYear 🙏
There is a lot to be said for Warrams, but generally way too heavy to sail well. This guy scored getting composite hulls. Keep it light, and she'll sail all right. And go with outboard propulsion, will save you a ton of trouble.
You don’t know what you are talking about. 10.000 plans have been sold. They’re heavy ? One of the lightest designs possible they provide great fun and above average speed and very safe to sail.
@@alfreddaniels3817 Above average compared to what? Any sailboat is great fun, I can't debate that, but as a composite trimaran owner, I suppose I'm biased as I'll literally sail circles around any Wharram cat.
Average for its designed use: every designer has a purpose for his/her design and a calculus about its carrying capacity. Wharrams are cruising catamarans build and maintained and sailed by amateurs either for coastal cruising or circumnavitating.
I would love to have the help of Hanneke! I’ve been put in contact with her, god willing I’ll be able to get some help with beast from her. Only time will tell.
We are building a Narai Mk IV here in Bretagne. I also write for Practical Sailor sharing my research about bio composites and materials used in wooden boat building :)
I have been on several user groups for various products and projects. The problem I fear is that everyone with an opinion is an “expert”. In aviation I find that to be dangerous; in sailing, uncomfortable. I just hope you learn quickly who likes to talk vs who really knows. I never needed just comments and long winded chatter, so I hope you are able to quickly learn who is giving sage advice vs opinions based on little experience.
Get the original plans and complete that boat without further changes to these plans. Wharram olans look simple and give you the idea that you can deviate from them, but marine architecture is a highly developed profession and even the smallest change will cost you lots of money and time to figure out and discover why Wharram knew better than you.
I would love too! I’m in the process of hopefully getting help from all of the various parties, though this is definitely quite the custom boat, that originally deviated from the original plans.
Hi Tim. Having built a Plywood Dory using the best quality Hardwood Marine Ply, and even if I say so myself, did a more than reasonable job of putting it together and used best two pot epoxy paint on the damned thing, it just didn’t last well, so I stopped being a fan of plywood, despite dad making me a very nice Mirror Dinghy to get me Started with Sailing. Give me GRP every time.Later, I came to realise what a very large problem Sailing around on a Lunchbox, Free Restaurant for Termites a Plywood Boat Really is, and heck, even having plywood Bulkheads in a Boat can rapidly become a really major headache, and not just in the Caribbean and Southern States of the USA. As far as I am aware, there is only One Boat Manufacturer which is taking the Termite Problem as seriously as it needs to be, and that is Island Packet. Maybe Catalina is nearly getting there with it’s not a splinter of wood on deck approach . Termites are a very big problem in Europe, around the Mediterranean, etc, and the damned things almost became established in Britain. The area of Termite Mounds in Brazil, is larger than the area of the British Islands, and Termites are the number one producer of CO2 in the World - which is just for perspective, and doesn’t really matter, because our atmosphere actually has a pretty serious shortage of CO2 Content believe it or not, and which can easily be confirmed by any Real Scientist, and a big hint that this is so, is greenhouse growers adding sub optimum but economic levels of CO2 to the air in their Greenhouses. Only Desert Varieties of Plants remain largely unaffected by the shortage by the looks of it. Hoping everyone has been having a Great Christmas, and Wishing you a very happy New Year. Bob in Wales. 🤔🌟🌟🌟👍❤️⛵️🇬🇧🏴
Wow Bob I didn't know termited were such a problem over there! That's wild! Maybe that's something we should talk about for the Euro readers/viewers. Can we have a chat? I can be reached at comments at practical-sailor dot com
@@practical-sailor Termites have been on the move for a couple of decades like Mosquitos.. Hannekas spirit of gia came under attack from little beggers she had to do some radical cutting and heavy duty chemical treatment.
@ Hi Tim. I only became aware that there was a Termite problem on this side of the Pond swhen an infestation arrived in either Devon or Dorset blown over from the Continent or arrived by boat I suppose. Well at the time, in addition to my Building Materials supply business, I was also a Director of a Timber Frame Housing Company, and we got an alert to start including a Termite proof Membrane between the Foundations and the Timber wall plate, to prevent termites getting into the Timber structure, all of which to Termites were delicious food and comfy accommodation.. Sunce then,we appear to have eradicated them from Britain, but how long before they make it back ? There does seem to be a strange silence about the Termite problem in the European Union though to be honest, and I am not sure just how wide the knowledge about Termites is Frankly. The only perspective I can offer offer, is if Termites have spread from say North Africa - a comment I read somewhere that was the point of origin, maybe right, maybe wrong, but if they have spread far enough North to reach Britain, then Continental Europe itself must have a pretty significant Termite presence? I think the right guy to talk to about them to be honest, is Darrell of Island Packet ? They know what is needed to make boats Termite Proof.Happy New Year Tim,,and to All.Bob in Wales. 👍🌟🌟🌟⛵️🇬🇧🏴
Hey bud! Thanks for chiming in with your wisdom! I think I’ll enjoy the process nonetheless. The most amazing part of this is that It’ll be my work, not yours! 😃 Good luck on your sailboat projects and dreams my friend!
Recomend Daddy blue goes with A wharram wingsail ...Ketch rig. With a furler on the foresail/s. Easy to handle and repair, super safe but efficient easy to fix off grid dito dynema standing rigging. For a familly look at the wharram Islanders as per sailing Sea of Japan and the Tiki 46'...Vasco Pyjamas deck layout . If she's a composite build then he can protect and reinforce the keel with Basalt fiber as it wont scratch puncture crack like glass or carbon and it doesnt suffer with osmosis like GRP. ruclips.net/video/cE8DtlID3c4/видео.htmlsi=KDwfRWUlEvEuTQzz Spirit of Gia Portugal. Power options im going to say given his filming hobby and familly he's going to need lots .. there are diesel outboards available now but i would go with an Electric hybrid system with pod motors or outboards that are now available .. Sailing Uma have gone everywhere and can use regen like the French Windelo Basalt fiber..inboard hybrid system catamarans. Using a generator means they are Stoichiometric efficient so you save 30-50% fuel and dont have the noise pollution or mechanical repairs and servicing to do. You can charge batterys and run your motors direct constant using a smaller pack .. that in a light boat alows hours of running ..in silence . He could even use two @ 25kw regen pod motors... On vertical plunge or lifting Mounts ... Mounted wherever he likes ... Near the midle is reputed best .. especially in rough seas but as they are water tight they can be raised or lowered to any depth as long as they stay below the surface. No pumps needed ... Cooled by immersion ive even seen one with pod motors one on each hull inboard where they can wash over the rudders. .
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Ohhhhh man!! Thank you guys for the opportunity!! This was such a fun chat! I’m so honored to share the story and hopefully inspire others to follow their dreams and join the sailing community!!
Thank you again Tim!
Hey great project you have. I love following Wildlings with a Wharram. I hope you have contacted Daneke who was James Wharram’s partner. She’s based not far from where I live in the UK and she’s super helpful. I’m subbed to you now and feet of luck. Andy UK
@@AndyUK-CorrivalI’ve definitely have started conversations with her!
I’m hoping we will be able to get her blessing and help in finishing this vessel! Time will tell, but it would be a honor to get her help.
Great story. All the best with the project. I posted a song for you up in the comments. Sung to the tune of "Oh Mr Woo" on the Ukelele 🤪👍
@ hahaha thank ya mane 💙
Hopefully you stop taking native species and importing them to non-native lands since they just end up becoming invasive where they get sold. Put your talents solely towards documentation of these animals and your sailing travels.
I used to be a professional boat builder, composites technician and a sailor. I want to build a new boat for my retirement and if I were to build such a boat. It would be a Wharram. Although 51' is a bit larger than I would want to self build. I like the 40' platform for a single hander or a couples boat. Knowing what i now know, I think I would use composite panels rather than plywood. I love working with good marine ply. But for longevity and rot resistance i would go with something like Divinycell. I really look foward to the day that I am living aboard my boat and travelling. This man is awesome and onto something great!
Thank ya! All the reasons why we made this decision! Not to worry about rot was the biggest factor, making this a vessel we can trust in most tropic environments! I can’t wait to have it ready and sailing very soon!
@FatherBlue I'm watching your vids right now. They're a great way to start off the new year! I was just over there last year in Singapore and Indonesia. I was initially going to use Indonesian Ironwood Plywood for my build but the economics of starting a new build over there just couldn't work for me and I realized that if I went back to the US I could afford to build with all composites. The boatsmith has his moulds up for sale. I just saw them listed this past week. I'm really considering buying a set. It's a long hard road building a big boat like this. I worked for several years building two 70' Donzis for a builder in Ft. Lauderdale, with a team of guys and all the money and tools available and it was still really difficult. So I commend you for your vision that you have made actionable and brought to life! Growing up, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and James Wharram became my next greatest hero as a boat building maritime archaeologist. I am also an archaeologist now and I want to spend my last years exploring the S. Pacific. Thank you for your response.
Great job, The next couple years are going to be quite a ride for you. I've never been on a boat up to 4 years ago and now can't keep my wife and myself off the boat. Sailing's a whole New world. Enjoy it.
Cool! I can't wait to see how it progresses. Keep us posted!
I really like having an interesting interview like this every once in a while. Good to know what people are doing out there with boats.
Will do! Give us a follow to keep a close eye on it!
@@FatherBlue Great! I'm following on your channel and insta, too. Can't wait to see how it goes. Let's do it!
I used to own a Wharram Tiki 38. I sailed it solo for a few years and then sold it when my plans changed. The 38 was what O considered the minimum for reasonably comfortable living aboard and ocean sailing. Your 51 will be great for what you plan on using it for. Being built for composited will also help reduce the big issue with older Wharrams, "rot". Even the best maintained plywood boat is susceptible to it.
Good luck with the adventure.
Edwardo, you're a go-getter with verve, energy and a dream. You'll be on that Wharram cruising the mangroves in no time. Good on ya mate.
Thank ya my friend 💙🙏🏽 I truly believe in it myself!
Your guest is fascinating. Very direct and has contagious personality. Wish him all luck and success.
Thank ya for the kind words my friend!
Wow that’s a crazy story. What a good find. He’s a good guy and he’s doing things. Good on ya.
Thank ya so much for the kind words my friend! 💙🙏🏽
Do you know the channel "Wildling Sailing"? A young English lad restoring a Wharram in the Netherlands. www.youtube.com/@WildlingSailing
His journey is amazing! And it’s what inspired our confidence in this style of boat!
Yes , I follow his channel 👍 the kids got a lotta guts and determination which will see him through to having
a pretty fine boat to live on when he's done 👍🙏😸
I'm amazed at how much roomier the hull interiors are on this 51' boat compared with Marks 42 footer. I've watched all his vids since he got the Wharram, and am pleasantly anticipating going back to episode 1 for some bingeing.
I fell in love with Wharram when I saw Kiana's video (ok, ok, I fell in live with her!).
Thanks, Tim. Great interview. I'll definitely follow his adventures, both in learning about his boat and sailing, as well as his research on endangered and unknown species. Thats very cool. He's definitely "Living the Dream "
Hello from Ireland again, Tim. Jesus, what a guy, so Humble lol. I just Subscribed to his Channel. I'm watching Mark, from the UK build his Wharram in Holland. He will love this, Guy. Happy New Year, Tim and Family. Stay Safe buddy. 🙏🙏👌👏👏👏👏👏
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Damn, this is huge in every way. I've never heard of Wharrum, but I read "Hartley" boat plans over & over as a kid. Looking forward to seeing her sail. Thanks & Happy New Year to Tim & everyone. 🇦🇺 ⚓
Great story looking forward to the future progress
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omg love this video style keep em coming
"Oh, Father Blue
What shall I do?
Bought a giant Wharram Cat
And not sure yet what to do."
"Oh Father Blue
What shall I do?
This bloody thing's enormous
Did I bite off more than I can chew?"
"Oh Father Blue
We all love you
We loved your boat story so much
We'll follow to see what you will do."
Happy New Year 2025. To You and to your family and to Tim and everyone.
Love from The Isles of Skye Highlands of Scotland 🏴🧡
Ohhhhhhh my lord! This is perfect!! 😅 I’m going to post this on my Patreon to have it remembered for ever!
Thank ya again for this 💙💙
Your positive attitude, energy and enthusiasm for sailing is highly infectious and inspires others. Even an old salt with 40+ years' cruising the 7c's on my 3 trip round. You inspired it. You deserve it. All the best shipmate. See you round the pond one day. Slàinte Mhath! 🥃💥🥃 Cheers & HNYear 🙏
@ 🙏🏽💙
Wow, that's a Wharram that actually has living space that you can swing [small] cat in.
I was quite surprised myself! It’s going to be such an amazing vessel once finished m!
There is a lot to be said for Warrams, but generally way too heavy to sail well. This guy scored getting composite hulls. Keep it light, and she'll sail all right. And go with outboard propulsion, will save you a ton of trouble.
That is a good idea, would be so much easier.
You don’t know what you are talking about. 10.000 plans have been sold. They’re heavy ? One of the lightest designs possible they provide great fun and above average speed and very safe to sail.
That’s the plan we are leaning towards! Outboards just make it a lot less of a hassle for us!
@@alfreddaniels3817 Above average compared to what? Any sailboat is great fun, I can't debate that, but as a composite trimaran owner, I suppose I'm biased as I'll literally sail circles around any Wharram cat.
Average for its designed use: every designer has a purpose for his/her design and a calculus about its carrying capacity. Wharrams are cruising catamarans build and maintained and sailed by amateurs either for coastal cruising or circumnavitating.
Solid gold ... 52ft thats big and he should lock into Mark Wilding...and his Pahi 42' and of course Hanna Boon.
I would love to have the help of Hanneke! I’ve been put in contact with her, god willing I’ll be able to get some help with beast from her. Only time will tell.
@@FatherBlue
The other film maker and sailor is the most wayward modern Wharram girl herself... I will add her name as soon as.
We are building a Narai Mk IV here in Bretagne. I also write for Practical Sailor sharing my research about bio composites and materials used in wooden boat building :)
I had just recently stumbled upon your page! Such good content!
I’d love to be friends! 😅 the more inspiration and guidance on this project to better!
interesting guy. How does he fund all this ? I love his mission of exploring and documenting nature.
Just by going after it man! I’m not a rich guy by any means! But I’m believe in myself so much! And some how things just fall into place!
I have been on several user groups for various products and projects. The problem I fear is that everyone with an opinion is an “expert”.
In aviation I find that to be dangerous; in sailing, uncomfortable. I just hope you learn quickly who likes to talk vs who really knows. I never needed just comments and long winded chatter, so I hope you are able to quickly learn who is giving sage advice vs opinions based on little experience.
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.
😂 I completely agree! You always have to vet the source, I’ve learned this myself in the other hobbies I’ve been appart of the hard way 😅
Lucky guy. 🥴
Get the original plans and complete that boat without further changes to these plans. Wharram olans look simple and give you the idea that you can deviate from them, but marine architecture is a highly developed profession and even the smallest change will cost you lots of money and time to figure out and discover why Wharram knew better than you.
I would love too! I’m in the process of hopefully getting help from all of the various parties, though this is definitely quite the custom boat, that originally deviated from the original plans.
Hi Tim. Having built a Plywood Dory using the best quality Hardwood Marine Ply, and even if I say so myself, did a more than reasonable job of putting it together and used best two pot epoxy paint on the damned thing, it just didn’t last well, so I stopped being a fan of plywood, despite dad making me a very nice Mirror Dinghy to get me Started with Sailing. Give me GRP every time.Later, I came to realise what a very large problem Sailing around on a Lunchbox, Free Restaurant for Termites a Plywood Boat Really is, and heck, even having plywood Bulkheads in a Boat can rapidly become a really major headache, and not just in the Caribbean and Southern States of the USA. As far as I am aware, there is only One Boat Manufacturer which is taking the Termite Problem as seriously as it needs to be, and that is Island Packet. Maybe Catalina is nearly getting there with it’s not a splinter of wood on deck approach . Termites are a very big problem in Europe, around the Mediterranean, etc, and the damned things almost became established in Britain. The area of Termite Mounds in Brazil, is larger than the area of the British Islands, and Termites are the number one producer of CO2 in the World - which is just for perspective, and doesn’t really matter, because our atmosphere actually has a pretty serious shortage of CO2 Content believe it or not, and which can easily be confirmed by any Real Scientist, and a big hint that this is so, is greenhouse growers adding sub optimum but economic levels of CO2 to the air in their Greenhouses. Only Desert Varieties of Plants remain largely unaffected by the shortage by the looks of it. Hoping everyone has been having a Great Christmas, and Wishing you a very happy New Year. Bob in Wales. 🤔🌟🌟🌟👍❤️⛵️🇬🇧🏴
Wow Bob I didn't know termited were such a problem over there! That's wild! Maybe that's something we should talk about for the Euro readers/viewers. Can we have a chat? I can be reached at comments at practical-sailor dot com
You might want to fact-check the termite and CO2 information...
lay off the pipe
@@practical-sailor
Termites have been on the move for a couple of decades like Mosquitos..
Hannekas spirit of gia came under attack from little beggers she had to do some radical cutting and heavy duty chemical treatment.
@ Hi Tim. I only became aware that there was a Termite problem on this side of the Pond swhen an infestation arrived in either Devon or Dorset blown over from the Continent or arrived by boat I suppose. Well at the time, in addition to my Building Materials supply business, I was also a Director of a Timber Frame Housing Company, and we got an alert to start including a Termite proof Membrane between the Foundations and the Timber wall plate, to prevent termites getting into the Timber structure, all of which to Termites were delicious food and comfy accommodation.. Sunce then,we appear to have eradicated them from Britain, but how long before they make it back ? There does seem to be a strange silence about the Termite problem in the European Union though to be honest, and I am not sure just how wide the knowledge about Termites is Frankly. The only perspective I can offer offer, is if Termites have spread from say North Africa - a comment I read somewhere that was the point of origin, maybe right, maybe wrong, but if they have spread far enough North to reach Britain, then Continental Europe itself must have a pretty significant Termite presence? I think the right guy to talk to about them to be honest, is Darrell of Island Packet ? They know what is needed to make boats Termite Proof.Happy New Year Tim,,and to All.Bob in Wales. 👍🌟🌟🌟⛵️🇬🇧🏴
It will take a few years until you realise how much work you just bought!
Hey bud! Thanks for chiming in with your wisdom!
I think I’ll enjoy the process nonetheless. The most amazing part of this is that It’ll be my work, not yours! 😃
Good luck on your sailboat projects and dreams my friend!
Recomend Daddy blue goes with A wharram wingsail ...Ketch rig. With a furler on the foresail/s. Easy to handle and repair, super safe but efficient easy to fix off grid dito dynema standing rigging.
For a familly look at the wharram Islanders as per sailing Sea of Japan and the Tiki 46'...Vasco Pyjamas deck layout .
If she's a composite build then he can protect and reinforce the keel with Basalt fiber as it wont scratch puncture crack like glass or carbon and it doesnt suffer with osmosis like GRP.
ruclips.net/video/cE8DtlID3c4/видео.htmlsi=KDwfRWUlEvEuTQzz
Spirit of Gia Portugal.
Power options im going to say given his filming hobby and familly he's going to need lots .. there are diesel outboards available now but i would go with an Electric hybrid system with pod motors or outboards that are now available .. Sailing Uma have gone everywhere and can use regen like the French Windelo Basalt fiber..inboard hybrid system catamarans.
Using a generator means they are Stoichiometric efficient so you save 30-50% fuel and dont have the noise pollution or mechanical repairs and servicing to do. You can charge batterys and run your motors direct constant using a smaller pack .. that in a light boat alows hours of running ..in silence .
He could even use two @ 25kw regen pod motors... On vertical plunge or lifting
Mounts ... Mounted wherever he likes ... Near the midle is reputed best .. especially in rough seas but as they are water tight they can be raised or lowered to any depth as long as they stay below the surface.
No pumps needed ... Cooled by immersion ive even seen one with pod motors one on each hull inboard where they can wash over the rudders. .