Here are some pictures of the Tiki 26 building belonging to Jefferson and Gomes Aliseda and being built by Roberto Costa Sousa and Marcos Camargo, in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Mr Roberto Costa Sousa Filho writes:
I am 63 years old and sailed the first time in a Tiki 21 in 1980 and since then I have never forgotten the thrill I felt. Sailing since childhood, my father was a great sailor, and my maternal grandfather, Mario Nocetti was a naval engineer who built the first ten 42-foot class Brazil, Olin Stephens, who gave Brazil large victories in the famous race-Buenos Aires Rio.
Everything I learned from sailing, monohull was in, but the sail with the Tiki scored 21 definitely my preference for projects Wharram. Today I feel immense satisfaction at having a dream
Monohull photo is best boat built by my grandfather, who went to sea in 1949 and won the famous race, with the name of Cairo II.
Mahiya was launched Saturday December 6th 2009 at about 6 pm (just as it was getting dark and the wind was picking up for a little blow! Ofcourse we were rushing to get her in the water and have not finished eveverything but she is floating (right on her loaded waterline).
We had a big launch party Saturday night with a big buffet dinner and live band at a resort on the beach and were able to look out and see the anchor light bobbing in the building swells. Latter after the party we rowed out to spend a fitful first night on her as I lay awake bolting at every new noise as she got used to her new environment.
Motored around to the lee of our island (Panglao) the next morning and finished rigging her.
She is now peacefully anchored in the lee on Alona beach a short walk from our rental house, in front of the dive shop where I sometimes teach.
Still more work to do, but I am finally free of the drudgery of 6 days a week in a boat yard!
Mahiya is in the water!! (Click 'Read more' for more photos)
Best wishes to you all from a chilly UK.
I have entered into the Jester Challenge 2010 to sail Cookie 2800 miles singlehanded from Plymouth UK to Newport USA. We take off on 23rd May and hope to take 4-5weeks. For more info on the Challenge go to http://www.jesterinfo.org/thejesterchallenge2010.html
I am raising funds for the Sir Francis Chichester Trust which is a very worthy cause. The Trust send disadvantaged youths on outward bound courses to help their self development through adventure.
Please can you help me to raise funds for this charity as I sail across the North Atlantic on Cookie and set another benchmark as the smallest catamaran to do so.
Recently we received photos of Tahiti Wayfarer Nr. 8, built and launched in Istanbul.
She was built in an upstairs living room, lowered out of the window, then assembled in a garden and finally launched on the beach.
We can count 10 people on deck of 'Tai-o-Tai-o' on her maiden trip. Wish we could have been there too!
Rory McDougall and his capable Tiki 21 catamaran “Cooking Fat” are off again on more adventures. Since sailing into the record books in 1997 as the smallest catamaran around the world, Rory and Cookie have had time away from ocean voyaging this past decade. Rory met his wife Michelle, shortly after the circumnavigation and they have been raising two kids in the Caribbean since. Cookie, of course, came along as part of the family and has been great for getting the young ones acquainted to sailing. Now it’s high time to get back on the horse!!
I watched the first Jester Challenge back in 1996 with great interest and made a vow that I would be on the start line for the next one in 2010. With 2800 miles of singlehanded upwind sailing from Plymouth UK to Newport Rhode Island USA, this is just the new adventure I need! The Jester Challenge embodies the self sufficient aspect of sailing small boats across oceans. The Challenge is open to all those who are up to the task and who like to voyage on boats from 20ft to 30ft. The Jester group of folks inspire small boat sailors to follow in the footsteps of our heroes of yesteryear. I can’t think of any better group to join with as it falls right in line with the minimalistic sailing I do in Cookie. The start is on Sunday 23rd May 2010 at 1300hrs off Plymouth breakwater. continued.......
With one single engine its difficult to go into small marinas.The solution is very cheap!
1 Bow thruster in one hull of my Pahi 42 , and you can turn on plate.
Pics for download under www.wharram-fenua.de
Hi JWD just to let you know that Dragon and I have successfully sailed from Durban SA (Jan 09) to Opua in NZ (Nov 09) via the Panama Canal and the South Pacific islands, meeting Hans Klaar and John Jameson in Tahiti!
Great trip. Dragon (T38) did exceptionally well and arrived in NZ in as good a condition as she left.
Had two bad storms on the way which needed drogues but very comfortable once deployed.
You may remember the remarkable 70 double canoe ‘Ontong Java’ built by Hans Klaar just over 2 years ago in West Africa. In our last report in 2007 he had sailed her across the Atlantic to Brazil http://wharram.eu//live//article.php?story=20071003181619589. Since then he has taken her through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific. In July he reported form Tahiti and in September he had sailed as far as Fiji. Soon he will be in New Zealand.
I bought the Tiki 21 from east London then owned by Simon Young. He made a new centre deck section and new hatches, the deck needed re-sizing and the hatches unfortunately needed replacing.
I carried-out all of the repairs to rubbing strakes, replacement of Beam cappings with Canadian Pine everything external including a self designed wind-vane and tiller bar system that limits the wobble in the tillers whilst at rest and underway to a degree.
The Hull/sail number could not be found inside the hulls anywhere and the Sails, supplied with the Tiki came from the Late Ken Hooks' Tiki 21 that was said to be not sailable anymore. So the sail number is of no reference!
The Tiki's name I found on the hull over painted from years of slapping on a coat of light blue paint, this name was hard to make out but after careful wet and dry sanding read"ESCAPE" there may have been a number of sylibal after this but the name was escape I believe for many years.
The boat I have found out was sold to the last owner who bought her from Stratton Long Marine in Blakeney on the east coast. I believe the last owner found her in a field.
There was a lot of work and lots of materials to buy; all new timber, paint, fastenings, self designed aluminium T-beam that houses the vind-vane (not in picture) far aft, all new ropes, new rubbing strake where needed all new timber secured using epoxy resin. basically if there was a hint of needing repair or replacement I carried it out. Luckily all inside a large workshop with heating.
And a number of modifications to sail control lines to make her easier to sail single handed, quite important when you really need to release the mainsheet or traveller in a hurry.
If you wish to see a few pictures of the rebuild and sailng to Plymouth then you are welcome to look on my website and under recent deliveries there is a picture and a link to copy to a web-gallery of a friend.
One or two pictures are of a friend on his cat when I joined him in Plymouth, he is the one with the beared, I am still young. I think!.
I have always been interested in James Wharram designs as I know when set-up well she will take me anywhere I wanted to go. However I have many years sailing, and would't say anyone could do it.
Sorry but I only have the above name for my Tiki; any help would be greatly appreciated.
We would like to inform you about our nice wharram tiki46 named WAKATAITEA.
We finished it in January 2009 in New Zealand. now we are in New Caledonia and on the way to Vanuatu. We will meet a oceans watch team and support and will work with them for the season.
As you can see on or blogs, we used a crab claw rigg as our friend Hans Klaar. We will meet him in vanuatu late in the year and sail together back to New Zealand. We are very happy with our Tiki46 and thank you a lot for this nice design.
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