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12-09-2010, 20:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Panama City, Panama
Boat: Islander Freeport 41' Ketch
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Wharram 30 ?
I am starting to really like the looks of a Wharram. I like the simplicity. I will be a solo sailor, and the idea of being able to box this boat up and ship it to Fuji, or where ever I want to go next, is appealing. I imagine this would be less of an expense than shipping a Gemini. There are not many Wharram 30's around (that I can see on Yachtworld), but I am interested. I have a budget of about 80K (less is better)usd for the boat, another $20K to make it mine. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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13-09-2010, 12:01
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Sponsoring Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Jupiter Fl USA
Boat: Wharram Tiki 30 Abaco
Posts: 288
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My company, BoatSmith Inc. is the authorized professional US builder for James Wharram Designs. If you google Tiki 30 we are all over the first page. I am not permitted to post a link here. The boat in this photo is currently for sale.
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13-09-2010, 18:21
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
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Waters around Japan are supposed to be very rough.
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14-09-2010, 23:30
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Boat: 15 foot Canoe
Posts: 14,192
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Did you see the Wharram for sale in the advertisement thread of this forum?
regards,
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John
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02-10-2010, 05:48
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Sponsoring Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Jupiter Fl USA
Boat: Wharram Tiki 30 Abaco
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Tiki 30 on the beach in Staniel Cay Bahamas.
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02-10-2010, 19:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Panama City, Panama
Boat: Islander Freeport 41' Ketch
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Boatman61, the next size up is a 30? I worry that as a live aboard, they may be too spartan. I don't want to feel like I'm camping out all the time. Would you or have you lived on one before? Why do you say that about bridgedeck cats? I would love to hear your viewpoints. What do you like, what don't you like about Wharrams?? I am interested in anything you can tell me regading them. I will tell you that when I see a picture of one, I can see myself on the deck in the tropics, anchored, with a good awning overhead... The BBQ going... The sun setting... Wow.
I can go simple. Hell, I can go native!
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02-10-2010, 21:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Panama City, Panama
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Thank you Boatman61, I like the site very much and the pics you supplied. For some reason, I feel that a 37ish would be better for me in a Wharram, where as a 37 in any other boat would be too big and unneccesary (solo). I want to pick your brain concerning the Wharram, but I will hold off until I've read more from that site you sent me.
Thanks again,
Ty.
P.S. You lived on that boat in the UK? I guess you had a good sleeping bag, yes? 
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02-10-2010, 21:38
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Seaman, Delivery skipper
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ty.gregory
P.S. You lived on that boat in the UK? I guess you had a good sleeping bag, yes?
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and a 'Hot Woman'.... calm down ladies... I mean she gave of a lot of body heat.. and its a very snug double... 
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03-10-2010, 01:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Malvernshire, on the sunny side of the hill.
Boat: 50' steel canal and river cruiser
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The style and design of the Wharram is typically south pacific and thats where they are best suited. The weather in northern climes wont suit the al fresco lifestyle.
Having said that, James Wharram and his enterage lived aboard their early boats in our creek in west wales in the early 70s. I went to school with his son. I did take a peek in one of the boats and it was so spartan and basic I couldnt believe anyone would live in there.
As I write this, maybe thats whats sub conciously fashioned my insistance on having decent facilities and accomodation for living aboard.
Certainly great sailing boats, more than practical, can be built and repaired by anyone with basic tools and materials and should appeal to back to basics sailors who wish to re discover the simple joys of being at one with nature
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03-10-2010, 16:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
Go for it mate... I've owned the 21 and the 26ft versions and they are great...
In my opinion the best open bridgedeck cat on the market...
I'd rather have one of these than a Catalac, Prout, Lagoon or any other bridgedeck cat... the next sizes up are even better...
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That can be because you owned a Tiki, but not a Lagoon.
Friend of mine sailed Tiki in the Med. Now he has a mono. I think he is the ONLY of my fellow sailors who got converted like that. Obviously something wrong with the Tiki. Much picturesque as it looks.
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