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we spend the last 12 month sailing from the Philippines to Thailand. we meet a lot of wharrams on the way.... sadly, 80 % of all this boat are in pieces and resting on the hard.
we saw in thailand: 1 pahi 50, 2 tiki30+, 2 tiki46, 1 tiki21and in the Philippines 1 tiki38 out of order...
we spoke to some (new) owners, the boats where not old, 5-7 years old but often for many month "out off order..."
what is it with this wharram community? do we like building, fixing, playing with new construction ideas then sailing...? i find this quite depressing.
i hope you are not getting lost in details and will sail on the ocean soon..
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I am an owner of a restored Tiki 26 and now looking for a bigger project that my Girlfriend and I can restore and love and live aboard and travel. Anyone know of anything? Living in Alderney-Channel…Continue
Started by Barefoot Boat Bums Sep 27, 2016.
I would give my eye teeth to own a Wharram cat, it is my dream to one day own such a vessel, either self-built or bought, or 'purloined'... Anyone who knows of a reasonably-sized cat that is languishing in some algae infested backwater and needs some TLC and a new skipper - just let me know! I'll be its new huckleberry!
I think it is a crime to leave any vessel uncared for or abandoned, there are too many boats and yachts decaying in our backwaters and harbours... And even when people like me go to the trouble of locating the owners, they greedily decide that they need to keep their rotting possession as it is rather than pass it on to someone who would put it to real use. Sacrilegious in the extreme..
finished hulls. no cross beams. rig and sails a complete...
boat is lying here in the ACHM sailing cub on the hard...
if somebody is REALLY interested, i can make the contact... i guess it is quiet cheap...
hans
Just finished rebuilding my parents old tiki 26. 25 years old and been sitting out the water rotting for the last 10 years. Will be afloat in 3 weeks or so. almost exactly 25 years from the day she set sail for the first time.
Would love to save enough money to go traveling and buy an old wharram somwhere, fix it up, then sail back to the UK with her :)
you got a tiki26...???? stop dreaming and go....
agreed Nigel, on all points
I have known three people socially, who set out to build a big Wharram, with great intentions, but somehow, when they had built the hulls to deck level (the easy part), they just sort of petered out and never finished the boat.
Only one of them successfully sold the hulls. The others just left them to rot. One was burnt and the other two were eventually just chopped up and ended in the tip. Very sad that the reality of the enterprise never matched the vision of the so optimistic builder.
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