This boat is beautiful, the colours are so appropriate for this boat. I am so envious of your adventures. One of these days, I will having my own adventure too. Fair winds.
I think the Wharram design is so organic and boat is so colorful, I have truly enjoyed keeping up with you all as you explore and Sail. Thanks so much for bringing us along!!
Wicked first trip , this is better than a shakedown because you will work out what you need to change for long voyages , don't forget you can always beach her for any repairs that require a stable platform.
For sure, there’s no good beach we’ve come across tide wise yet, but we did work out a bunch of “kinks” like having everything we need in the cockpit while underway- like a bucket to “go in” 😂
I don't think he's taken a step back to that engine well. I've seen those...with like wood board reinforced on the sides, but it'll rip right thru that thin layer.
You know, I try not to pepper you with too many questions, but sometimes I can't help myself. :) So here's today's question: Why did you ultimately decide on using lashings as opposed to webbing straps? I'm at least a year away from having to make a final decision, and since the beginning I've thought I'd do the same thing you did, but recently I'm giving the straps another look, especially after seeing you tighten the lashings on the water. Ratchet straps seem to be much easier to tighten, I like how the whole system hooks into the hull structure, and I don't see how they could be any less seaworthy than lashings. Anyway, I'd love to hear how you puzzled through all this. Thanks.
Ok so there’s definitely advantages and disadvantages of both. The disadvantages of the straps for me personally would be that you have to cut a slot at the bottom of the locator blocks, I’m sure you’ve seen the setup in the plans. For me that means that the locator block is basically only held down by the bolts that fix it rather than having a really good epoxy glue joint with fillets and glassing plus the bolts too! That’s much more reliable in the long run. We chose to use Ipe for the locator block because we had it on hand and didn’t buy it, it was gifted to us. And bronze bolts instead of stainless steel. In my opinion our beam locators are bulletproof. Then for the lashing version you have a nice sized lashing pad bolted to the sheer stringer. Whereas the straps version you only have the locators to fix the beams. The lashing can be properly tightened before hitting the water. The issue we had was time, we weren’t in a boat yard and were being rushed by the national park ranger to get the boat in the water the very same day. Ideally it takes more than one day for one or two people to put the boat together before launching. We had twelve hours to load up drive down unload and put back together again. Hence why our lashings weren’t so tight from the beginning. I learned from Hokelea to use polyester triple braid lashing, lucky fish also did use the same line as well. But the building plans call for different type of lashing line. Right now the lashing are spot on we’ve been bashing upwind in big choppy sea for over three hundred miles so far. And the only thing is that the stern beam is a little creaky. I will fix this by putting two more wraps on the inner stern lashings for a total of nine turns. I think this is happening because the stern beam is too long therefore the lashings are longer because I had to hang the beam off the outside more that the other ones.
If you’re ever in the Caribbean you can come check it out and go for a sail to see how everything works. I would have loved to see a completed tiki 30 while building mine
Mostly sailed but some motor sailing as well when it got light. The pitching stopped us from doing more than 4 knots even motor sailing the motion was so violent that we couldn’t go faster.
@@ZigZagSailing_113 the excessive pitching is definitely it is a weakness of the design, one that every other cat designer has addressed, starting by widening of the waterline beam aft. But unfortunately, none of those designers have the overall Wharram aesthetic that strikes such a chord with some folks. Hope you keep up the channel.
Tohatsu 9.9hp four stroke sport thrust. Fuel injected with a long shaft. We are going to upgrade the propeller when we get the chance to go to the big propeller that they make for this engine.
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This boat is beautiful, the colours are so appropriate for this boat. I am so envious of your adventures. One of these days, I will having my own adventure too. Fair winds.
You can do it! It took us 4 years but no matter how long it takes never give up
I think the Wharram design is so organic and boat is so colorful, I have truly enjoyed keeping up with you all as you explore and Sail. Thanks so much for bringing us along!!
Our deepest gratitude to you as well my friend(: we appreciate you
Go get'm tiger (s)! Goodonyas!
Wicked first trip , this is better than a shakedown because you will work out what you need to change for long voyages , don't forget you can always beach her for any repairs that require a stable platform.
For sure, there’s no good beach we’ve come across tide wise yet, but we did work out a bunch of “kinks” like having everything we need in the cockpit while underway- like a bucket to “go in” 😂
@@ZigZagSailing_113 Ha ha , I thought that was what netted trampolines were for.
@@glenndavis479 honest I use it when at anchorage as that but, unfortunately the dingy gets the prime pee spot while underway🥲
I had a rope railing around my 46. It is one step and she is off the boat.
Yes we are also thinking of putting lifelines around the whole boat
hy....beautiful cople
I don't think he's taken a step back to that engine well. I've seen those...with like wood board reinforced on the sides, but it'll rip right thru that thin layer.
The floor of the cockpit is actually 6mm foam and then another 6mm layer. Whereas the plans say use 4mm
You know, I try not to pepper you with too many questions, but sometimes I can't help myself. :) So here's today's question: Why did you ultimately decide on using lashings as opposed to webbing straps? I'm at least a year away from having to make a final decision, and since the beginning I've thought I'd do the same thing you did, but recently I'm giving the straps another look, especially after seeing you tighten the lashings on the water. Ratchet straps seem to be much easier to tighten, I like how the whole system hooks into the hull structure, and I don't see how they could be any less seaworthy than lashings. Anyway, I'd love to hear how you puzzled through all this. Thanks.
Ok so there’s definitely advantages and disadvantages of both. The disadvantages of the straps for me personally would be that you have to cut a slot at the bottom of the locator blocks, I’m sure you’ve seen the setup in the plans. For me that means that the locator block is basically only held down by the bolts that fix it rather than having a really good epoxy glue joint with fillets and glassing plus the bolts too! That’s much more reliable in the long run. We chose to use Ipe for the locator block because we had it on hand and didn’t buy it, it was gifted to us. And bronze bolts instead of stainless steel. In my opinion our beam locators are bulletproof. Then for the lashing version you have a nice sized lashing pad bolted to the sheer stringer. Whereas the straps version you only have the locators to fix the beams.
The lashing can be properly tightened before hitting the water. The issue we had was time, we weren’t in a boat yard and were being rushed by the national park ranger to get the boat in the water the very same day. Ideally it takes more than one day for one or two people to put the boat together before launching. We had twelve hours to load up drive down unload and put back together again. Hence why our lashings weren’t so tight from the beginning. I learned from Hokelea to use polyester triple braid lashing, lucky fish also did use the same line as well. But the building plans call for different type of lashing line. Right now the lashing are spot on we’ve been bashing upwind in big choppy sea for over three hundred miles so far. And the only thing is that the stern beam is a little creaky. I will fix this by putting two more wraps on the inner stern lashings for a total of nine turns. I think this is happening because the stern beam is too long therefore the lashings are longer because I had to hang the beam off the outside more that the other ones.
@@ZigZagSailing_113 Awesome, thanks for that!
If you’re ever in the Caribbean you can come check it out and go for a sail to see how everything works. I would have loved to see a completed tiki 30 while building mine
@@ZigZagSailing_113 Cool, thanks. I actually live in Belize, so please also let me know if you ever get this far west.
4:17 yep, welcome to the Wharram hobby-horse. Makes it so difficult to function. In the end did you sail and motor to SXM?
Mostly sailed but some motor sailing as well when it got light. The pitching stopped us from doing more than 4 knots even motor sailing the motion was so violent that we couldn’t go faster.
@@ZigZagSailing_113 the excessive pitching is definitely it is a weakness of the design, one that every other cat designer has addressed, starting by widening of the waterline beam aft. But unfortunately, none of those designers have the overall Wharram aesthetic that strikes such a chord with some folks. Hope you keep up the channel.
Groovy a thirty minute video
Thanks for the support. We hope to make longer videos now that we are sailing full time.
@@ZigZagSailing_113 you make em I watch em
How did she point?
We don’t know for sure because we don’t have wind instruments but we will try to figure it out next time we sail.
Just about 50 degrees off the wind. We tested this today
What engine are y’all using on the boat? Lovin watching y’all’s videos
Tohatsu 9.9hp four stroke sport thrust. Fuel injected with a long shaft. We are going to upgrade the propeller when we get the chance to go to the big propeller that they make for this engine.
Waitaminute--"boyfriend"? Put a ring on it already!
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why ruin a perfectly good relationship by getting married? 😉
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CROISSANTSSS 🥐
😂 they are so worth the hype I swear