James Wharram: life and legacy of the iconic designer
January 29, 2024
Julien Girardot meets Hanneke Boon in Cornwall to discover the legend and legacy of pioneering catamaran designer James Wharram
Falmouth, Cornwall, 1955: a legend is born along Customs House Quay. A smartly dressed young man with wild, curly hair has launched a 23ft catamaran, built in just a few months for the modest sum of £200 (the equivalent of around £6,500 today).
Rigged as a ketch with battened junk sails, the aptly named Tangaroa (meaning ‘God of the Sea’ in Polynesian) marked the beginning of the epic Wharram story.
At the time, catamarans were considered dangerous and eccentric, while yachting was a pastime largely reserved for high society. But sailing already has other visionaries. On the deck of Tangaroa, beside James, are two young women: Jutta Schulze-Rhonhof and Ruth Merseburger. In puritanical post-war England, setting off to cross the Atlantic with two young women – and German ones at that – was downright shocking! But these three young people care not a jot about conventional thinking. They dream of adventure and their enterprise is an act of defiance.
For years James Wharram has nurtured a passion for the history of sailing pioneers and the ethnic origins of the multihull. Devouring every book on the subject he could lay his hands on, he discovered the story of Joshua Slocum, the first solo circumnavigator (1895-1898), and the voyage of Kaimiloa by the Frenchman Eric de Bisschop. The tale, published in English in 1940, of de Bisschop’s attempt to prove the seaworthiness of double canoes by making a voyage from Hawaii to France on a catamaran he had built on the beach, became Wharram’s primary source of inspiration.
Riding out the storm: James Wharram at the helm of Tangaroa in Biscay in 1955. Photo: Julien Girardot
Wharram disagreed with many assumptions of the time, and his first Atlantic crossing was an opportunity to refute Thor Heyerdahl’s theory on the settlement of the Pacific islands. Wharram contested the assertion of the Danish anthropologist who, after his voyage aboard the Kon-Tiki in 1947, affirmed that the boats used were simple rafts. Wharram was convinced that the boats were more akin to double canoes with sails, capable of going upwind and holding a course. These early multihulls, consisting of two hollowed-out tree trunks, were connected by crossbeams bound together with plant fibre. The sails were probably made from what is known as ‘tapa’ in Polynesia, hammered tree bark, which was also used to make clothes.
The three young adventurers left Falmouth on 27 September 1955 on a boat loaded with books, basic foods, and very little else. Despite a fraught passage, encountering storms in the Bay of Biscay and being suspected of being spies by Franco’s Guardia Civil, the trio successfully crossed the Atlantic and reached the island of Trinidad on 2 February 1957.
Without a penny to their name, they adopted a simple island life, and Jutta gave birth to her and James’ first child, Hannes. The unconventional polyamorous family lived aboard a raft inspired by the floating dwellings of the Pacific, nicknamed ‘the paradise island of the South Seas’. Tangaroa, now tired, was abandoned, as Wharram decided to build a new catamaran. By chance, two solo sailors came to anchor in the bay where the Wharram tribe lived afloat, and the legendary Bernard Moitessier and Henry Wakelam helped Wharram build his new design, Rongo.
Wharram, Merseburger and Schulze-Rhonhof aboard Tangaroa in Falmouth, 1955, before their Atlantic crossing. Photo: Julien Girardot
Thanks to the experience of his first transatlantic voyage, as well as knowledge gathered from Wharram’s endless reading, Rongo was much more accomplished. While Tangaroa was flat-bottomed, Rongo has V-hulls. To prove the design’s seaworthy qualities, Wharram decided to tackle the North Atlantic, sailing from west to east with his two companions. This route was known to strike fear into the hearts of multihull sailors of the time, as the two previous attempts had tragically ended in two deaths.
The crew left La Martinique for New York on 16 April 1959, one year after Rongo’s construction began. The return voyage to Conwy in Wales took 50 days, but the gamble paid off, and Wharram’s new design was the first to achieve what many thought impossible. The curly-haired eccentric became something of a celebrity, and following his great Atlantic adventure, James published his first book, Two girls, Two Catamarans. The years that followed were Wharram’s golden age, with plans released to suit every budget and every dream. Soon there were Wharram designs all over the world, connected by a powerful community spirit.
Drawing a Wharram
My own journey to this remote corner of Cornwall began decades before. After 15 years of travelling the world, inventing and reinventing my life, including many years living in the Pacific islands, I felt the need to capture these experiences by creating the boat of my dreams.
Illustrations inspired by a visit to the Wharram design office in Cornwall. Image: Benjamin Flao
While living in Tuamotu, I was involved in several incredible projects to build traditional sailing canoes under the directive of talented local Tahitian boatbuilder, Alexandre Genton (now chief of operations at Blue Composite shipyard in Tahiti). At first we launched small single-seat sailing canoes with two outrigger floats. These are the simplest way to sail: a sheet in one hand, a paddle in the other, which you plunge over the side of the canoe into the water, and it makes a perfect rudder. Then we built a larger version, Va’a Motu, for a hotel in Bora Bora, of splendid stripped kauri planking. Finally, we worked with the local population to build an ambitious 30ft Va’a Motu with a single ama, on the atoll of Fakarava in the Tuamotu archipelago.
Curiously, after many experimental trials at building and sailing canoes, my imagined ideal yacht turned out to be something very close to a Wharram design, which I learned as soon as I shared my first cautious sketches with friends. I realised I had to meet James Wharram.
In October 2021, I dialled the number of JW Designs. A woman answered; James’ long-term life and business partner Hanneke Boon. I tell her my ideas to build from one of their plans: the Islander 39. We began an email exchange and when I asked her what James thought of this model, in November 2021, less than a month before he died, she replied: “James is enthusiastic about your project. He’s now 93 years old and nearing the end of his life.
The Pahi 63 Spirit of Gaia which Wharram and Boon sailed around the world. Image: Benjamin Flao
“He has been looking at the Islander 39 design for several years and often says, ‘I wish I had one myself.’ It’s the only Wharram design that has never been built, so your project is a wish come true for him.”
On 14 December 2021, James Wharram passed away. Out of respect for the bereavement, and due to Covid-related travel restrictions, we decided to postpone our meeting. Some months later on a beautiful spring afternoon, I landed in Plymouth with my friend and artist Benjamin Flao, himself the owner of a Wharram-designed Tiki 28, and headed for Devoran near Truro in Cornwall, the stronghold of the Wharram family.
Hanneke welcomes us into her office. It is a beautiful wooden cabin, warm and bright, overlooking the changing lights of Cornwall. The place looks like a museum telling the story of a life of travel and passion through yacht models, photographs and unusual objects. James is there, you can feel it. A glance at the shelves of the library shows an impressive array of rare and precious books, mostly dealing with navigation and shipbuilding in Oceania, and demonstrates the seriousness with which Wharram and Boon studied the history and technicality of ‘double canoes’.
“I’d like our boats to be called double canoes and not catamarans, which I think is a mistake,” Hanneke explains. The word catamaran, originally pronounced ‘catamaron’, comes from the Tamil dialect of katta ‘to bind’ and maram ‘wood’, as they were actually one-man rafts used to work on the outer hull of ships. The English pirate and adventurer William Dampier, in the 1690s, was the first to describe a two-hulled vessel as a catamaran, but although catamarans might be the commonly accepted word nowadays, it’s actually a mistake.
oon unfolds the plans of the Islander 39, the only Wharram design that has never been built. Many plans were hand-drawn by Boon. Photo: Julien Girardot
Hanneke unfolds the Islander 39 plan on her drawing board. Like all Wharram plans for half a century, it has been marked with her signature. Despite this unique pencil stroke, she has remained in the shadow of Wharram’s mythology for 50 years. Since 1970, Boon has drawn the majority of the construction plans by hand. They’re works of art and the best way to imagine yourself aboard a Wharram. Without her, JW Designs would not be what it is.
Originally from the Netherlands, Boon grew up in a family of sailing enthusiasts. By the age of 14 she was already building small canoes and at the age of 20 she joined the Wharram team and quickly became his co-designer. They criss-crossed the Atlantic twice in quick succession aboard Tehini, the crab claw-rigged double canoe on which James and several women lived for 10 years. Since then, Hanneke has escaped from her office whenever she can to sail thousands of miles on all the seas of the world, always using a double canoe.
Those radical vessels included the Spirit of Gaia, also built on site, through a sliding door next to Hanneke’s office. It was aboard this 63ft Pahi, Wharram’s flagship, that the Wharrams sailed around the world from 1994 to 1998. James described Spirit of Gaia as “a beautifully shaped woman he was in love with”.
Boon’s design office is adjacent to the Wharram HQ in Devoran and looks out over one of the River Fal’s many creeks. Photo: Julien Girardot
In Wharram’s wake
James and Hanneke’s home is a former veterinary surgery. The furnishings are basic, with only the essentials, but the doors close by themselves, thanks to an ingenious system of weights, ropes and pulleys. Benjamin and I offer to shop and cook, and in the living room, we put the dishes down and eat on the floor, like on the deck of a Wharram.
Jamie, James and Hanneke’s son, joins us for the meal with his partner Liz. “James has remained the icon of the business, but it’s really Hanneke who has been doing the job for the last 10 years. She is JW Designs,” confides Liz.
Jamie is at first more subdued, but talking to him you soon discover a true character. Given the world he grew up in, it’s surprising to learn that sailing is not really his thing: “I get bored quickly at sea and I’m sick most of the time! I prefer to be underwater. Above the line is not my thing.
Evocative illustration of the Wharram workshop in Devoran, Cornwall. Image: Benjamin Flao
“I do like the calmness of the ocean though, that parenthesis effect, detached from our hectic lives on land. In fact, I think the best thing about sailing is remembering long voyages, not making them,” Jamie jokes.
But he is keen to preserve Wharram’s legacy and the couple are thinking ahead to when Hanneke can no longer hold the fort. “As long as Hanneke is alive, the business will be run in her own way. But it’s certain that something will be put in place to enable people to continue to acquire the building plans, at the very least, this service will remain guaranteed.”
Back in the office next door, Nicki John answers clients and sends plans around the world. She’s only been with JWD for a couple of years, but that’s long enough for her to fall in love with the company’s story.
“One of the things I loved about James was that he came in every day. He’d knock on the door and jokingly ask, ‘Do you have time for some gossip?’ And then he’d tell me all sorts of stories. His travels, the women he had shared his life with, it was fascinating. When he was 18, he hitchhiked to Europe, smuggling coffee on the black market to finance his adventures. James’ story is just phenomenal.
Mana 24 is available as a CNC-cut self-build kit boat. Photo: Julien Girardot
“One day James came in, took out a plan, unfolded it as he sat down, and said, ‘Aren’t they beautiful?’ James was deeply convinced of Hanneke’s talent. He never stopped admiring her,” Nicki says fondly.
The community Wharram fosters is unique. Nicki shows us a photo that defines the ‘Wharram spirit’, of the hull of a Wharram being lifted out of the second floor window of a home in England. With no shed to build their Wharram design, they decided to use their living room as a boatyard. “This picture shows that if you really want to build a Wharram, you can do it anywhere,” says Nicki, “During Covid, we sold a lot more plans. Confined, people dreamed of freedom and took time to figure out how they wanted to live their lives.”
Now it’s Hanneke’s turn to shine as the head of JWD. In contrast to the technologically-led path that sailing often follows, James and Hanneke’s ‘low tech’ approach drives those who follow it to reconnect with past knowledge, practices, and philosophical approaches to our relationship with the world and the way we live in it.
Their love of minimalism is also at odds with many trends in modern yachting, but it brings its own luxury. The joy of not having too much of anything allows you to make room for the essentials, and for the beauty that surrounds you.
My dream of building Wharram’s unfulfilled plan, the Islander 39, remains. I’m in no hurry. Like the libertarian vision of James Wharram, it endures.
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Tiki designs, 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 design, has circumnavigated, we would not recommend this for everyone! A number of Tiki 26s have also made ocean crossings, but again this is only for the experienced sailor. The larger TIKI designs of 30ft and over are craft capable of longer voyages and ocean crossings. They are designed to be less costly to build by using appropriate wood/epoxy technology and by eliminating, wherever possible, expensive metal fittings common to modern yacht design.
On the larger TIKIs the 'Deckpod' offers sheltered steering and the 'Stern Ramp' provides easy access to and from the water. The TIKIs are boats you can work and live on. The Wharram approach goes beyond simple boat design - the concept of 'Flexispace' puts emphasis on not just the physical living area, but also the 'mind space' of those on board.
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The TIKI Building Plans, designed from the early 1980s till the present, represent a new phase in our presentation of building drawings. The first small Tikis were all built in stitch-and-glue ply and epoxy. This needed a different way of guiding the builder through the build process, as the boats are built shell first, instead of frame first. All TIKI building Plans are very detailed, which some builders have described as a course in boat building . They supply a building sequence as a book of large 3D drawings of all the plywood parts and overall construction details, drawn to scale. Some parts are given full size, to be copied on the plywood.
These scale drawings are accompanied by an A3 size sketchbook, which leads the builder step by step through the build with beautiful detailed sketches and numbered sequence of construction. They are all hand drawn by Hanneke, who has years of hands-on experience of building and designing Wharram catamarans. All our practical expertise, with a focus on keeping things simple, has gone into these drawings. These sketchbooks have made it possible for people with no boatbuilding experience to build a beautiful boat .
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Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy Stitch & Glue
Length Overall:
21'
6.40 m
Beam Overall:
12'
3.66 m
Waterline length:
18' 6"
5.64 m
Draft:
1' 2"
0.35 m
Weight:
790 lbs
360 kg
Loading capacity:
1000 lbs
460 kg
Sail area:
208 sqft
19.25 sqm
Building Time Estimate:
400 hrs
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 Plans have been sold (2015).
In 1991-97 Rory McDougall sailed his self-built Tiki 21 'Cooking Fat' around the world, sometimes alone, sometimes with a companion. She was, and still is, the smallest catamaran to have circumnavigated . In 2010 Rory entered 'Cooking Fat' in the Jester Challenge (single handed 'race' across the Atlantic for small boats - under 30ft) and came into Newport, Rhode Island a close second after 34 days.
The Tiki 21 has stayed popular as a simple, easy to trail Coastal Trekker all over the world. Her unique soft Wharram Wingsail Rig has been used on all subsequent Tiki and other Wharram designs (30ft - 65ft) and is very popular with the owners of these boats.
Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy Stitch & Glue
Length Overall:
26'
7.92 m
Beam Overall:
15' 1"
4.60 m
Waterline length:
22' 6"
6.84 m
Draft:
1' 4"
0.40 m
Weight:
1550 lbs
700 kg
Loading capacity:
1700 lbs
770 kg
Sail area:
285 sqft
26.5 sqm
Headroom in hulls:
Over floor:
3' 11"
1.2 m
Over bunk:
2' 11"
0.9 m
Building Time Estimate:
700 hrs
The Tiki 26 was designed by popular demand soon after the Tiki 21, for people who wanted to do more serious Coastal cruising. Her ocean going abilities have since been proven in various ocean crossings .
The Tiki 26 can be trailed and is easily beached, to step off in ankle deep water. Sleeps two in the hulls, leaving room for small galley and chart table, but accommodation can be increased with a decktent, giving space for a double bunk.
Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy Stitch & Glue
Length Overall:
30'
9.15 m
Beam Overall:
16' 4"
5.00 m
Waterline length:
25' 5"
7.75 m
Draft (incl. LAR keel):
2' 1"
0.65 m
Weight:
2200 lbs
1000 kg
Loading capacity:
2200 lbs
1000 kg
Sail area:
385 sqft
35.8 sqm
Headroom in hulls:
Over bunk:
2' 11"
0.9 m
Over floor:
4' 11"
1.5 m
Width of bunk:
2' 11"
0.9 m
Headroom in optional deckpod:
Over floor:
4' 3" - 3' 7"
1.3m - 1.15m
Over seat:
3' 3" - 2' 11"
1m - 0.9m
Building Time Estimate:
900 hrs
The ideal low budget self build ocean cruiser. With a sleeping capacity of 6 (two doubles in the hulls) and spacious level deck area, TIKI 30 makes an excellent low cost charter boat.
It is 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'.
An optional deck pod with double berth and/or navigation station is available. This pod replaces the standard open cockpit.
Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy/Laminate
Length Overall:
31'
9.45 m
Beam Overall:
17' 6"
5.33 m
Waterline length:
27'
8.23 m
Draft:
1' 9"
0.53 m
Weight:
3000 lbs
1360 kg
Loading capacity:
2200 lbs
1000 kg
Sail area:
386 sqft
35.9 sqm
Building Time Estimate:
1100 hrs
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.
Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy/Laminate
Length Overall:
38'
11.60 m
Beam Overall:
22' 4"
6.20 m
Waterline length:
31' 6"
9.60 m
Draft (incl LAR keel):
2' 6"
0.75 m
Weight:
6600 lbs
3000 kg
Loading capacity:
4400 lbs
2000 kg
Sail area:
573 sqft
53.2 sqm
Bunk width (centre of hull):
3' 9"
1.14 m
Forward bunk width:
2' 9" - 1' 4" tapered
0.85 m - 0.4 m tapered
Platform Clearance:
2' 7" - 2' 11"
80cm - 90cm
Building Time Estimate:
2200 hrs
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 single cabins, galley, navigation station and toilet/shower, as well as good storage areas in bow and stern.
Building Method:
Ply/Glass/Epoxy/Laminate
Length Overall:
46'
14.00 m
Beam Overall:
24'
7.30 m
Waterline length:
38' 1"
11.60 m
Draft (incl LAR keel):
3' 7"
1.10 m
Weight:
5 tons
Loading capacity:
4 tons
Sail area:
1000 sqft
91 sqm
Main bunk width:
4' 8" - 3' 9" tapered
1.42 m - 1.15 m tapered
Aft bunk width:
3' 11" - 2' tapered
1.2 m - 0.6 m tapered
Platform Clearance:
2' 11" - 3' 5"
90cm - 105cm
Building Time Estimate:
4000 hrs
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 huge sail area to get speed.
Anne and Neville Clement write logs about their voyages on self-built Tiki 46 'Peace IV'.
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Warren Buffett’s Son Reacts to Dad’s Plan for His Fortune That They’ll Have to Give Away Within 10 Years of His Death
“It’s not so easy to give away money if you want to do it smart,” son Howard said of his and his two siblings’ future donations
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Warren Buffett ’s kids have quite the financial task ahead of them — and the billionaire’s middle child admits it will be a “not so easy” responsibility.
Howard Buffett recently reacted to the decision his 94-year-old dad — the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway — made this year to change his mind about donating his fortune to the Gates Foundation , from which Warren resigned as a board trustee in 2021.
Instead, the Nebraska businessman will donate his fortune, estimated to be $143.1 billion based on Forbes data, to a charitable trust after his death, according to the Associated Press . His three adult children — Howard, 69, Susie, 71, and Peter, 66 — will be in charge of the trust and have 10 years to allocate the money to charities of their choice.
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“It’s not so easy to give away money if you want to do it smart, if you want to be intelligent about it,” Howard told the AP.
“It’s pretty amazing that he’s giving us this opportunity,” he added.
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Until his death, Warren will continue to donate to the Gates Foundation annually, something he has done since 2006 to the tune of more than $40 billion, per the AP. He will also continue donating to his family's charities, including the one named after his late first wife, who died in 2004 at age 72: the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.
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Susie, who is the board chair for that foundation, once told PEOPLE that money means something different to her father than for many people.
“He’s pretty boring — it’s just not what people expect,” Susie said in 2017, the year HBO’s Becoming Warren Buffett documentary came out.
“I think it’s also probably surprising to people that the money doesn’t matter to him,” Susie continued of her father. “He made the money sort of by accident because he was really good at doing what he loved, and when you do that particular thing really well, you end up with a whole bunch of money. But it’s really true that he does not care about having a bunch of money.”
Warren is currently the sixth-richest person in the world, behind only Elon Musk , Jeff Bezos , Larry Ellison , Mark Zuckerberg and Bernard Arnault , according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List .
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Malibu Outrigger is a 18′ 0″ / 5.5 m monohull sailboat designed by Warren Seaman starting in 1952. Great choice! Your favorites are temporarily saved for this session. Sign in to save them permanently, access them on any device, and receive relevant alerts. ... From plans intended for amateur (plywood) construction. A general write up ...
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The TIKI designs range from the coastal trekking/car trailable Tiki 21, to the comfortable and spacious ocean cruiser or charter boat, the Tiki 46. Although a Tiki 21 and a number of Tiki 26s have made ocean crossings, this is only for the experienced sailor. The larger TIKI designs of 30ft and over are craft capable of longer voyages and ocean ...
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Welcome To Jordan Wood Boats. Our distinctive designs have helped launch countless wooden boats on the world's waterways, in more than fifty countries. All of our boat plans are meticulously developed and drawn with the amateur builder in mind. Please visit our Shop, where you can order the detailed building plans and patterns for all of our ...
The Tiki 21 has stayed popular as a simple, easy to trail Coastal Trekker all over the world. Her unique soft Wharram Wingsail Rig has been used on all subsequent Tiki and other Wharram designs (30ft - 65ft) and is very popular with the owners of these boats. The Tiki 21 was designed in 1981 as an easy to build Coastal Trek catamaran, using new ...
Flint Printed Plans. $74.00. 14ft 9-3/4in x 4ft 3-1/4in x 6in Flint was designed to meet the requirements of an experienced boatman who lived on an island several miles from the mainland. The boat had to row in a spirited fashion, and be able to cover long distances under the urge...
Decrease Quantity of DUO 800 Study Plans Increase Quantity of DUO 800 Study Plans. Price: $15.00. Subtotal: Add to Cart. Add to Cart. DUO 800 Assymetrical Plans ... "Instant boat building" take on a new meaning.Watch the video clip: A flat surface is sufficient to build the catamaran. ... Warren Messer;
Warren Seaman: Sailboat Calculations Definitions S.A. / Displ.: 77.48: ... From plans intended for amateur (plywood) construction. ... Camden, Maine, 1997), states that a boat with a BN of less than 1.3 will be slow in light winds. A boat with a BN of 1.6 or greater is a boat that will be reefed often in offshore cruising. Derek Harvey ...
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Little Egret Plans PDF. Little Egret is an open Sharpie of 18' 10" x 4' 10â ³ x 6", with a hull shape reminiscent of the famous 28' Sharpie, Egret, designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe in 1886 for use in the shallow waters of Florida. I have long had a fascination for Egret, and think that her hull cross-section, which is part Sharpie and part ...
Drifter 12L Free Plans. To download these plans, click HERE The Drifter 12 L is a higher performance version of the Drifter 12, with longer amas, and a taller mast. It can be paddled or sailed with as simple rig using a windsurfing mast. The sail rolls up, and is reefable...