What you said about building something yourself and falling in love goes with everything. Farming your own food, building your own home, educating your own self your own children, and even building your own home makes you fall in love with life. When we work and pay others to do things for us we are disconnected from the direct involvement of the making things for ourselves and therefore we are not in love with life. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Cheers Captain.
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 thanks! I am getting ready to retire soon and I am thinking of building a 26 or a 30. It will be a one and done deal so I want to get it right
I lived and sailed all around the Treasure Coast of Florida. Now living in Thailand and getting ready to build a boat. I've been looking at the Tiki's. I think they're about the best option for a home builder, who wants to do some serious travelling on their boat. Which I do. I think I'm going to have to either go with the 26' and stretch it 2 feet or just build the 30'. I love the old crab-claw and gaf rigs and I'm also pretty impressed with Wharrams loose-footed bird-wing design. I love the relaxing pace of your videos. Fair winds to you! By the way, maybe you already covered this in another video, but I just found your channel. Would you be willing to share how much it cost you to just build the hulls and crossbeams and put in the hatches and portlights? Thank you so much.
@@antoniolugo9236 I'm in the same position. I'm thinking the 26 is about 2-3 feet too short for me. I think a 28' would be the best size for me. But the 30' is a little bit large and more difficult to build and dismount for trailering. My experience has proven to me that it's better to have a smaller, well laid out boat than a big boat that has a 4-5' keel, that cant be used easily, and is not beachable.
Sorry, I'm just getting back to you now. I didn't realize there was a reply to my post. Yes, I'm in the same spot. My last two mon-hulls were of the standard variety fiberglass boats with 3.5'-4.5' drafts. I was working as a boat builder in Florida while restoring my own and living aboard. But I couldn't take either of my boats out very much because of the drafts. They were both in the 27' to 30' range and they were both plenty of boat to single hand and live aboard. I wouldn't want anything bigger. A 30' Wharram is a big boat!. The 26' is better in length and width. But still no standing headroom in the hulls. I want standing headroom. I want it to be shallow draft and beachable. I want a simple living accomodation with 2 full sized bunks in the hulls one head and 1 galley. With the nav station on top in the deck house or deck pod with a setee. Wharram has other designs, I mean other than the Tiki series. Actually the one I'm leaning towards is the Tanenui design at 28'3". It's on the website under classic designs. My only hitch is, if I'm gonna build a 28' then why not just build a 30'? I bought some plans from a guy in Florida who designed and built a 20' camping cat called the Ragwing Islander, with a full cabin and 6' standing headroom in the hulls. He took his design from the TCP#75 "Leons Cat". Which is a free set of design plans for a 30' Catamaran from an Ozzy boat builder named Leon. At the cost of the Wharram plans at over $1000+, that's enough money to basically order nearly all of the plywood for the build (Here in Thailand). I can get Marine Grade 6mm Indonesian Hardwood Plywood here for about $32.00 per 4x8 sheet. So, $1000 is 30 sheets of plywood. I absolutely love the Wharram boats asthetics. And I've always wanted to build one. This boat I'm going to build is going to be my retirement endeavor. I'm not currently retired. I'm a teacher and I've got a few years left. But I just got to a place where I can build my boat and have secured the shop space. I'm getting my tools together now and I figure that it's going to take me about 1 year or more. I could and may very well design my own boat based upon the Wharram's and other designs. If I were to go with sandwich panels instead of plywood. I could do it faster and better, but I like wooden boats or more to the point wood core composite boats The savings in construction cost and ease of getting the materials is so large of a factor here, that it's crazy to throw away twice the amount of money on composite panels. I'm 54' and in good shape. My boat, although I want it to be a quality build. I don't need to go crazy and try to reinvent the wheel. If it makes it 30 years without any major issues. It will probably outlast me. I'm going to sail the Islands of the South Pacific, Indonesia, South Malaysia Borneo...and all over Thailand. Exotic hardwoods here are native species. Such as Teak and Ironwood. Wood just feels and looks better to me. So, I'm still deciding. But 27'-30' is the prime size for me and still dismountable for trailering and shipping. It all needs to fit inside of a 40' shipping container, with all gear and the deck house and the mast, bicycles, kayaks etc. If I ever want to ship it or maybe even sell it later. 28' is the perfect size actually. 28' long with 6' deep hulls and a 14'(+-) beam. I like the Wharram's beam lashings and their Wing Sail rig. But my deckhouse design is more like a elongated- geodesic structure, similar to the Plastiki with integrated Solar Panels powering the LEDs on the boat. Underwater generators too...to grab some power from forward movement and just water movement in general. So those will be integrated into small boxes or tube's formed into the hulls. Each piece of the boat will make it's own power. Each hull will also have an engine compartment aft with kick up outboard engines and rudders for beaching and camping, trailering and shipping. You see I love the traditional Polynesian looks and the minimalist functionality like the Wharram's exhibit. But I wish to incorporate some newer technical advantages that were not available to Mr Wharram back in the day. There's so much new tech now, even small electric jet drives are doable. Add a small diesel generator and a power bank and cruising range goes into the thousands of nm's category.
Your right about the big cats the haul out on the large cats have to have a large lift and most haul outs are around 16 to 17 feet. The 26 is 15feet so it will fit in more boatyards the haul out and three days in the yard was only $280
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 thanks, thats much more reasonable than i expected. i'm going to do some more research because i really am leaning more towards a wharram as being the right boat for me in the future. my local boat yard's max is 14.5 ft but i think it wouldn't be so horrible to travel just a bit further for a haul out.
What you said about building something yourself and falling in love goes with everything. Farming your own food, building your own home, educating your own self your own children, and even building your own home makes you fall in love with life. When we work and pay others to do things for us we are disconnected from the direct involvement of the making things for ourselves and therefore we are not in love with life. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Cheers Captain.
You are exactly right my friend
Awesome video! Thanks again for sharing your journey.
0:30 somebody's been feeding him right there.
Beautiful! Thank you!
Who was flying the drone as you were pulling away at the end?
My son set that up. He was riding in the truck and operating the drone from the cab. I would have crashed it for sure
That gator is well fed.
Thank you I needed that. ❤️
You built it, you sailed it. Was the tiki 26 the right size or would the 30 have been better?
The 30 would have been better for the extra room but the 26 is a lot easier to handle and trailering
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 thanks! I am getting ready to retire soon and I am thinking of building a 26 or a 30. It will be a one and done deal so I want to get it right
I lived and sailed all around the Treasure Coast of Florida. Now living in Thailand and getting ready to build a boat. I've been looking at the Tiki's. I think they're about the best option for a home builder, who wants to do some serious travelling on their boat. Which I do. I think I'm going to have to either go with the 26' and stretch it 2 feet or just build the 30'. I love the old crab-claw and gaf rigs and I'm also pretty impressed with Wharrams loose-footed bird-wing design. I love the relaxing pace of your videos. Fair winds to you!
By the way, maybe you already covered this in another video, but I just found your channel. Would you be willing to share how much it cost you to just build the hulls and crossbeams and put in the hatches and portlights? Thank you so much.
@@antoniolugo9236 I'm in the same position. I'm thinking the 26 is about 2-3 feet too short for me. I think a 28' would be the best size for me. But the 30' is a little bit large and more difficult to build and dismount for trailering. My experience has proven to me that it's better to have a smaller, well laid out boat than a big boat that has a 4-5' keel, that cant be used easily, and is not beachable.
Sorry, I'm just getting back to you now. I didn't realize there was a reply to my post.
Yes, I'm in the same spot. My last two mon-hulls were of the standard variety fiberglass boats with 3.5'-4.5' drafts. I was working as a boat builder in Florida while restoring my own and living aboard. But I couldn't take either of my boats out very much because of the drafts. They were both in the 27' to 30' range and they were both plenty of boat to single hand and live aboard. I wouldn't want anything bigger. A 30' Wharram is a big boat!. The 26' is better in length and width. But still no standing headroom in the hulls. I want standing headroom. I want it to be shallow draft and beachable. I want a simple living accomodation with 2 full sized bunks in the hulls one head and 1 galley. With the nav station on top in the deck house or deck pod with a setee.
Wharram has other designs, I mean other than the Tiki series. Actually the one I'm leaning towards is the Tanenui design at 28'3". It's on the website under classic designs. My only hitch is, if I'm gonna build a 28' then why not just build a 30'? I bought some plans from a guy in Florida who designed and built a 20' camping cat called the Ragwing Islander, with a full cabin and 6' standing headroom in the hulls. He took his design from the TCP#75 "Leons Cat". Which is a free set of design plans for a 30' Catamaran from an Ozzy boat builder named Leon. At the cost of the Wharram plans at over $1000+, that's enough money to basically order nearly all of the plywood for the build (Here in Thailand). I can get Marine Grade 6mm Indonesian Hardwood Plywood here for about $32.00 per 4x8 sheet. So, $1000 is 30 sheets of plywood.
I absolutely love the Wharram boats asthetics. And I've always wanted to build one. This boat I'm going to build is going to be my retirement endeavor. I'm not currently retired. I'm a teacher and I've got a few years left. But I just got to a place where I can build my boat and have secured the shop space. I'm getting my tools together now and I figure that it's going to take me about 1 year or more. I could and may very well design my own boat based upon the Wharram's and other designs. If I were to go with sandwich panels instead of plywood. I could do it faster and better, but I like wooden boats or more to the point wood core composite boats The savings in construction cost and ease of getting the materials is so large of a factor here, that it's crazy to throw away twice the amount of money on composite panels. I'm 54' and in good shape. My boat, although I want it to be a quality build. I don't need to go crazy and try to reinvent the wheel. If it makes it 30 years without any major issues. It will probably outlast me. I'm going to sail the Islands of the South Pacific, Indonesia, South Malaysia Borneo...and all over Thailand. Exotic hardwoods here are native species. Such as Teak and Ironwood. Wood just feels and looks better to me. So, I'm still deciding. But 27'-30' is the prime size for me and still dismountable for trailering and shipping. It all needs to fit inside of a 40' shipping container, with all gear and the deck house and the mast, bicycles, kayaks etc. If I ever want to ship it or maybe even sell it later. 28' is the perfect size actually. 28' long with 6' deep hulls and a 14'(+-) beam. I like the Wharram's beam lashings and their Wing Sail rig. But my deckhouse design is more like a elongated- geodesic structure, similar to the Plastiki with integrated Solar Panels powering the LEDs on the boat. Underwater generators too...to grab some power from forward movement and just water movement in general. So those will be integrated into small boxes or tube's formed into the hulls. Each piece of the boat will make it's own power. Each hull will also have an engine compartment aft with kick up outboard engines and rudders for beaching and camping, trailering and shipping.
You see I love the traditional Polynesian looks and the minimalist functionality like the Wharram's exhibit. But I wish to incorporate some newer technical advantages that were not available to Mr Wharram back in the day. There's so much new tech now, even small electric jet drives are doable. Add a small diesel generator and a power bank and cruising range goes into the thousands of nm's category.
how much was the haul out? i was told catamarans weren't worth it because of the price.
They are a pain sometimes but the 26 fits on a regular lift. The haul out and three days in the yard was $280
Your right about the big cats the haul out on the large cats have to have a large lift and most haul outs are around 16 to 17 feet. The 26 is 15feet so it will fit in more boatyards the haul out and three days in the yard was only $280
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 thanks, thats much more reasonable than i expected. i'm going to do some more research because i really am leaning more towards a wharram as being the right boat for me in the future. my local boat yard's max is 14.5 ft but i think it wouldn't be so horrible to travel just a bit further for a haul out.
Wonderful video. Are you packing for winter or are you moving to another area?
I’m redoing a few things and then going to probably put back in in Georgetown sc more than likely
Did you build the boat with the cargo straps in mind or was that something added later? What is your opinion on those? thank you
I built the trailer to fit the boat and straps. Also built the 2 carts to set the hulls on until we get the beams tied.
Got to make sure you set it up to catch the bulkhead areas.
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 OK thanks, my teneau Is using the standard lashings, but it seems wharram is going towards the straps with their 24 Mana
Oh the nets on the back I added those so I could get back to the back beam
@@sailingmoaiawharramtiki2615 Actually I am talking about beam lashings where you are using cargo straps to attach the hulls to the beams
total waste of time, unless you entertain mystical notions about plywood