Author: James Wharram

I have been back in Cornwall for three weeks, most of the time stuck in ‘The future of the PCA’ problem. But life has to go on, and many serious people are interested in ‘How did the 21ft. Ethnic design, the ‘TAHITI WAYFARER’ sail? How did it steer with no rudder just a steer-board paddle?…

Steve Goodman, the Webmaster, is at me again: “James, you must write a Website Newsletter”. I would sooner slide out into the workshop to see the finishing stages of our new ethnic design, the 21ft. (6.40m) Double Canoe ‘Tahiti Wayfarer‘, tomorrow to be loaded onto a new trailer and taken to the Douarnenez Ethnic Boat…

The l6ft. ‘MELANESIA’, using two sheets of ply for the main canoe hull is our modern solution to the shortage of suitable trees for dugout construction. The ‘MELANESIA’ is to be used in the traditional manner as a small inter island sea truck, for daily commuting to their gardens, for out to sea fishing or…

The Wharram Website is now “On”. Steve and Don, the guardians of the Website, have asked me to write more (and more and more). I can see how a Website can become addictive, becoming a public diary, but I do have to remember the many in the world who do not have access to computers.…

We now have an official Wharram Website. Some people will say: “At last, Wharram has been dragged kicking and screaming into the late 20th century!” In fact, the electronic computer era and Wharram have grown together; for the electronic computer, the home port of the website, is as old as the Wharram double canoe/catamaran designs.…