Dreams of a Live-Aboard Life - Wharram Builders and Friends2024-03-28T23:11:41Zhttp://wharrambuilders.ning.com/forum/topics/dreams-of-a-live-aboard-life?commentId=2195841%3AComment%3A296909&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHi Riley,
You still here?
My…tag:wharrambuilders.ning.com,2023-12-06:2195841:Comment:3004872023-12-06T09:05:26.039ZAndy Nemierhttp://wharrambuilders.ning.com/profile/AndyNemier
<p>Hi Riley,</p>
<p>You still here?</p>
<p>My advise is to start at Wharram.com ,,,reviewing every page, article, boat, photos, videos, etc, as I am doing. </p>
<p>Each page/tab provides even further resources. </p>
<p>That should keep us busy for 6 months. Check back in then to see what we've figured out. Personally, I want something easily singlehanded, and nimble, and built by myself. So, I'm veering towards the Tiki26. </p>
<p>Good luck! 👍</p>
<p>Hi Riley,</p>
<p>You still here?</p>
<p>My advise is to start at Wharram.com ,,,reviewing every page, article, boat, photos, videos, etc, as I am doing. </p>
<p>Each page/tab provides even further resources. </p>
<p>That should keep us busy for 6 months. Check back in then to see what we've figured out. Personally, I want something easily singlehanded, and nimble, and built by myself. So, I'm veering towards the Tiki26. </p>
<p>Good luck! 👍</p> One week older, one week wise…tag:wharrambuilders.ning.com,2023-02-15:2195841:Comment:2969092023-02-15T14:08:49.280Zriley the road-doghttp://wharrambuilders.ning.com/profile/rileytheroaddog
<p>One week older, one week wiser. After some research I've found a fairly affordable sailing school with a four-day intro course in May. It costs about $600 and offers a membership with rentable boats on a lake in my area. I will keep looking on facebook/craigslist for other options until the gap starts to close. Still open to any other ideas on how to get my feet wet.<br></br><br></br>The more I research Wharrams, the more dead-set I am on them over monohulls. I've been perusing the study guides for…</p>
<p>One week older, one week wiser. After some research I've found a fairly affordable sailing school with a four-day intro course in May. It costs about $600 and offers a membership with rentable boats on a lake in my area. I will keep looking on facebook/craigslist for other options until the gap starts to close. Still open to any other ideas on how to get my feet wet.<br/><br/>The more I research Wharrams, the more dead-set I am on them over monohulls. I've been perusing the study guides for the Tiki 38, Tangaroa mk4, and Narai variants - and the more I find, the more I like the Narais. Having as much headroom as possible in the galley and bunks is a necessity, and having a wide open fore-deck with room for a roofed cockpit seems like the ticket. I like the offset cockpit I've seen in Kiana's old Narai and I like the way these boats are sort of no-frills builds. I still find it a bit difficult to find many detailed video tours on youtube or discussions about the Narai variants, so if anyone knows of any, please share. Links to other discussions on these forums that I might be missing out on would be welcome as well (This site is a bit hard to navigate).<br/><br/>I didn't seem to get any responses from the post over the first week but I'll keep the thread going as a sort of catalogue of thoughts, and hope that people will respond in their own time. I'm sure many of you out there won't check the forum but once a month or so, and I'm not in a rush.<br/><br/>Are there any other threads, facebook groups, or youtube channels dedicated to Wharrams? I'll soak up any information I can, so anything from sales to builds to discussions would be great. Open to hear any more thoughts as well on the comparisons between the three Wharrams I'm looking at. Nothing set in stone yet, and I still have a lot to learn, so I'm open to hear more from those who have the experience.</p>