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Wharram Study Plans are intended to help you decide if a particular boat design is for you. They provide more detail than is available in the Design Book. The most important part of the Study Plan is the Materials List, which will list the major boat building materials requirements so you can cost your project in your own area. We feel sure that after studying these plans you will appreciate the quality and detail of the Building Plans.
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Tama Moana – Child Of The Sea – Study Plan
£17.50
The Tama Moana Study Plan is intended to help you decide if this design is for you.
Description
The Tama Moana (Child of the Sea) has the traditional hullshape of the islands of Tikopia and Anuta. She is built in strip planking over plywood backbone and bulkheads. Her rig is traditional crabclaw and she is steered with steering paddles/side rudders.
Ethnic Designs as Canoe Craft have a basic design principle of maximum boat for minimum cost. Building and sailing one you can be a research participant in a major attempt to recover and preserve the practical, design, handling aspects of Man’s first offshore sailing vessels.
Two Tama Moana designs sailed the Lapita Voyage from the Philippines to Tikopia and Anuta in 2008-9, where they were donated to the island populations who are now using them as their autonomous transport.
Due to its simplicity this design is also a very economical boat to have ready-built.
Study Plan Contents
- 1 x A0 Plan sheet
- Materials List
- A4 and A3 Colour drawing sheets
- Articles
Design Data
| Building Method: | Strip Plank/Epoxy/Glass | |
|---|---|---|
| Length Overall: | 37′ 9″ | 11.5 m |
| Beam overall: | 14′ 11″ | 4.55 m |
| Waterline length: | 28′ 5″ | 8.65 m |
| Draft: | 1′ 9″ | 0.53 m |
| Weight: | 3500 lbs | 1600 kg |
| Loading capacity: | 3300 lbs | 1500 kg |
| Sail area: | 395 sqft | 36 sqm |
| Building Time Estimate: | 1600 hours | |
Visual Tour
Tama Moana Photo Gallery Tama Moana VideosMore Information
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Lapita Voyage
The Lapita Voyage began in the first week of November 2008, when two 38ft Tama Moana designs set out on a 4,000Nm voyage along the island chains of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea and the Solomons.
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Tama Moana – Child of the Sea – Self-Build Boat Plans
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Lapita Voyage DVD (PAL)
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