Here for 4-5 Weeks to Get Their Ieaving Australia

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NARAI M k IV - Bulld 4e Hinemoa SOLD :2.500 Tangoroa Hulls * SOLD E3 50O Pahi 31 - Gaelxnnks lz T ' iki 21 E4,500 TIKI 26 -- Dahna 14 Tanenui (F0am) E5.900 Tiki 21 G RP E6,250 TIKI 21 '.- Cooking Fat 16 pahi 26 :6 500 TIKI 26 Pahi 26 E7,000 'w Helarctus 21 Tanenui * f 7 000 Tips Hina and Gadg-A- 22 Tane under offer $14,000us Tiki 26 GRP E9,500 News FY m Sea People 23 Tiki 26 GRp jylo (j()0 Tiki 26 GRP SOLD E1 1 , 150 Pahi 31 E1 1 ,500 Tiki 26 GRP * E12,500 Narai 4 E1 5,000 Tiki 28 * E18 000 Editorlal Team : Adrian, sa ve, > ntt Tiki 28 E18.500 A% .' e ,- By: Anna- l Pahi 42 f25.000 Narai 4 :30,000 Editorial Add--- -: oRO * E34 000 pcA ' soe dow n M arina Front coverphoto Pahi 42 E48.000 Millbrook, Torpoint 'I'IKl 21's Bb' *O n site at Southdown

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passports, photographs etc. before 1998 w -I lI s>> the Jhaomldien g lesfot mBer issbeamnein. arasn da. nda qaetr- issuing a Cruising Perm it for the return of $ Sp.l r*l t twenhdailnegs coanfoetrheenrc eDolphin and boat. However, we did not know , they salled up beforehand who would actually be . j the Great Barrier Reef with som e sailing on GAIA. So, for anyone of G ala to friends and on to oarwin who wants to sail to lndonesia, I would think, that it is worth soding Europe. Unfortunately, they had to wait out the crew well in time before Ruth M arl'am bdngs the latest there for 4-5 weeks to get their Ieaving Australia. Latecomers bet- news of the depalo re from Cruising Perm it to be allowed to ter join them in Indonesia. as it is Australia. enter Indonesia. It had not been easy to get a visitor's visa. possible to apply earlier, as the

'd GAIA finally left Dafwin and sailed to Roti, a sm all island off Timor. where the Raft, whlch James and Hanneke have designed, is being built for 'The First Sailors Expedi- tion' - a scientific expedition by raft

. * 'z . .x # . from Eastern Indonesia recreating . s >. A l ' . . . ;k F..,.. the first successful sea crossing by ' ,i . . . .# . c ' . p hum ans to Nodhern Australia . $tl; .;. k . 100,000 years ago based on ar- 7 . rJ. p,. . ,v , .z chaeological evidence from both j . ' ' $ Indonesia and Australia

'' '''''..... 'dlpltqk, ' '.; This is what the 'Expedition' book- 1 - j - , . . *'. . iet says, which 1 have just received > ' J - .-.-- I - p: ' . - - + % ! from the organisers in Australia. As , .. . > w - . f - I -w , . usual with expeditions the finances r' v- have not been sorted out com- # pletely. and the expedition has aI- ready been postponed from Jan- uary to March 9 so we can only . . j '#' hope that the money will arrive. However. this time, it is not our Getting masts of 'Spirit of Gaia' back in position (Brisbane Aug .97) problem . In fact it will give James and Hanneke the opportunity to get lndonesian authorities insisted on GAIA back into the Mediterranean Ruth's Diary or, better, Newsletter having a com plete crew Iist with before they get called up as crew from the ones 'Ieft behind'.

It was nicer to sit on my bunk on the SPIRIT OF GAIA to write a newsletter while at sea, but I thought with Christmas and the New Year approaching. 1 would Iike to send you a1I best wishes for the festive season and happy sailing in 1998. Enclosed are som e photographs of GAIA being re-fitted (the hrst re-fit since her Iaunching in 1992) and re-launched in Brisbane, Australia, where we had left her after sailing a second season in the Pacific to fly home for more design and writ- ing work. ln August 97, James, Hanneke and

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i 4 However. l have Just heard that they i arrived in Bali aher a good voyage with Ilght winds most of the time. There, they will visit TANENUI builder and PCA mem ber Colin Flynn and then, hopefully. have tlme see there and on some of the other i Indonesian Islands some of the many interesting boats. that are still l) p sailing in the islands.

/- lf aII goes well wlth the Raft Voyage, it will probably mean that the return to Devoran of GAIA'S skipper and k, , . ''I. crew. which means also our deslgp- ,,. ers, will be fudhef delayed Just as .ê # o' .kv'?'.' .l . . . , . , . ' 11 - , y, % ! well that we had declded that I would . . > 1w. . . stay at home this tlme to 'look after # ' . 4k the shop', as they say.

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T he f-l rst bulld cIelaosgstsice nNeaxnt d' atsla ed aoyns lys hsorten and made out of cheap materials What , olutlon to can you do, The answer o r tlaem , a . the cruel frustration of belng stuck and we hope for us ad lcle on thls Inland Is productive actlon , ls the , and Melanesia w e bought blrch-faced

Iatest add.l t.l, on. after seelng on the back cover of plywood - not so costly as marine t'ae sea people a drawing of a Iiqle ply, not so vicious as cueap far Martin Kyne - l-illey and Elisabeth canoe. we sent off a cheque eastern ply ( harsh splinters Deckker take the plunge on this become infected withlp mlnutes It new 16' sailing canoe design from Here we are in Cambridge Ilving in seems) 6mm thick has five plles JW D. 'The lrja/s and tribulations'' a flrst floor flat. There Is no garden evenly spaced instead of the usual There Ss no sea here But we know uneven three. Blrch has a Iight Recppe for a Iand-locked soul the river Cam Ieads to the Great pattern of delicate beauty which , tngredlents as follows ouse and on to the W ash to the we thought, when sanded and Flrst. after two trlps to Cornwall for Nodh Sea - a cold grey edge of a varnlshed, would make a stunnlng tantallslng Summer Meets (so dlsappearlng world So we'll build interlor. Plan num ber five was ours that's what the boats Iook likel) a boat and sall and paddle her from W e measured the flat. Our front take one slmple Idea - Iet's bulld here to the sea! room is bIg enough, but the the cheapest, slmplest W harram removing of upper floor window

Second, buy study plans for a l-he plans arrived - two sheets of frames to take the flnlshed boat out Tangaroa Mk 4 Instead It's a plywood are aII that's required - so meant a search elsewhere for proper Ilttle shlp In whlch to find seductively sim ple A replica of a bulldlng space A very good and

Oneself Melanesian salllng canoe, generous friend, Valerle, lnvited us Thlrd. spend the autum n nights something which the inhabltants of to use her garden One Saturday In porlng over charts, playlng wlth those islands between Australia early June, we laid out our sheets Captaln Fields rules. re-readlng the and New Gulnea needed In order to of quarter Inch plywood and drew in Balleys and Robedsons and. just to sall from island to lsland to tend pencll the Ilnes Of a boat W e give added perspective, belng thelr growing crops carefully measured In metric only. frlghtened by the photographs ln W e bent battens on pins to obtaln Adlard Coles' Heavy W eather W e need a sm all saillng canoe (Contînued on page 12)

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1 997 A ustrl-an bthadsc ksguromumnde)r . loTsth he emr masats tw Ina as bbluowilt wmasn yre shcouersd twhelt hnoeuxtt daymage and harraln Trailer svoemr? e Iighktl ndIi ke oof thestrsrl p herpela nuksling To com plete alI these horror YZiw l*ovr* Rv l-l m- m- ovr* teIcighnt lqdauem, abguet bheafvoer ehad already a storles, Robert wayand (TIKI 21 s . She also got 'Mahana') told us In hls humorous Y OZt Pptiwnunu . ab eanmew, wshteicrnh rIaoomkps Ianischee da ntdo the wGaeyr htaherd oIdS ToIkKoI l 21c ocamplnslgz e stot oryt hoef Gerald winkler reporls.' children enjoy it very much conclusion' 'If you don't put ln a reef when you reaily should A sudden night storm 1et 'Two because you are paralysed by the The annual 1997 'W harram Traider Huskles' drag her anchor. She was ultimate speed of your cat, never saller Boat Meetlng' took place at blown into the reeds of a 1ee shore 90 down to get your beer out of the the Neusledlersee, Austrla on Her crew had no chance to stop her Ieeward hull. ..always have some in

~~September 13 It was a sunny and or sail her free. She survlved the the wlndward one as well'. warm summer day and wind was heavy pounding (no rocks) for rather Iow~~

In prlnclple good news. but not + ldeal for the boats which had to sail ' 9 .' ..t . ': . . . -'tv'.u. k... Q'.t''%.-u** ' up to the meeting polnt from the ' . -- south Conventional outboard . ' t j englnes are forbldden at the Iake, *' becatlse It IS an envlronm ental ,4i1j. . .-.-.-.y-r.i k:i:. . . .-. ..-... > .w ..- sensltlve area (see SP 25). * . Therefore m ost of the boats are - * ' Z* '* ' . . eq ulpped wlth electric motors . . ...- 3. f @ Thelr batteries are charged by :e *+ %* / .* ' . / so I a r pa n e I s . T h i s i s s u ffi c i e nt fo r : . ;- ' u ...r-e V .,..'..*.x'w'*'m =. T ' golng in or out of a harbour but not ''D . .- ' . .. '' .,.. - . ;k ' ,. enough to push the cat over a - ';. * . . ' .' ': . ' **t .-. Ion 9 er dlstance .. ' ------'' 7 -' ' *' ' '''

%* . . :. . , . ' Neverthesess eleven W harram ' . . . r'4 % .. traller catam arans made It to the . -' -' -=' - ' ' *'- t' Baum lnsel for the raft up some . . v,.g .> a ttended the meetlng for the first , . --- ' .z r' -. -'. tlme, ltke a SwISS H ITIA 17 She - 4 . om .. ;( was towed more than 1000 km Just , ' ' ' for the meetlng by lves Gaulter ' -' . à.

W ater tem 'o eratures were around ' +. ' . .e o , 20 C and people simply enjoyed :. .f...... t h e sun an d swlm mlng around the '' ' huge raft. The beautlful weather - . . shlfted the em phasls of the . ''' meeting from salllng towards a a more soclal, Iald back event . quite .z . . g.! yk ., . the opposlte to Iast year Lots of - w . ', ) - '> e . ; ..47 x' .e .. . ., g .' .J. ;. storles were around m any . . .'L' .- , generated by thls years unstable ' - . .,,s: sum mer weather In central Europe ' '

(the M ores high pressure system '*' k. .. d1d not develop as usual) Here are ' some flashllghts of some of the '. , ' Jl > : storles TI K1 26 , Muckefuck , ( aI1 cool Y;) us. -' tv1 . öown! , thls name stands for 'cup of lousy coffee' and has a real serlous ' .' u. ! '* . . )) . #

Paqe 6 ï ran Into trouble and the water E1 police were pretty busy. But aII W harrams had a safe and finally fast way home to their various 4 ' harbours Some of the crews h' f' ï concluded the meeting Iate at the .% . ' cosy waterfront restaurant in Breitenbrunn. For June 1 998 a two day W harram catamaran boat rally is planned around the Neusiedlersee and may be across the border to Hungary As it looks now, plans for sum mer 98 of the trailer cats are circllng around the lonian Sea (Greece) .. l $ . and one TIKI ls Iooking for a deck hand for the way down the z/ . Adriatic (500nm). Our 5th annual Austrian PCA W harram Trailer Good news from the buildlng sites Sailer Boat Meeting ls agaln Next year we shall see the launch Urbaneks story. They were cruising scheduled for mid Septem ber. of CaI O'Neils TIKI 30. The boat is with T1 K1 26 'Tam ata' in the already com pleted with som e help lagoons of Venlce (Northern from sailing and building guru Adriatic - Italy) and had a close call Helmut Rieder Helm ut's beautiful near Bibione with a tornado (!), 'Aura' is stlll faster and polntlng which Ieft a very narrow but hlgher than any other TIKI here. signlficant track of destruction. This The Neusiedlersee crowd is also is not the first report of a tornado In longlng for Helmut Bayerls this area. christening party of his PAHI 26 and maybe we see David W agners Th is sum mer we trailed .----.-.-.-j- * TIKI 21 'Vaitea' here if he keeps h1s 'Kananaskis' to italy and sailed to ' zt . !A . building pace and promises Sardinia (W estern Med) W e were quite surprised of the many t ' - A couple of polycats were trailed to different faces of the island (e.g. ' the Mediterranean this year agaln crowded Costa Esmeralda and ' Iike Frit Studnickas TIKI 26 empty Cala dl Luna). On our way .- b 'Fridoja' and PAHI 26 'Aquarius'. back we spent some time expioring t Both were salllng In Croatian the interestlng, but challenging waters (Adriatic Sea) lslands In the Strait of Bonifacio. Quite suddenly after the meeting a Also interestlng to hear Otto coldfront with gale force winds and rain hit the Iake. Some yachtsout W INTER M EET

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Pre-build requ,red. Feels Huoe compared add the outboard, anchors ana with a TIKI 26. never mlnd a 21 . food... . SaoI j .I ng .In f rica 1 Asin qaded ublte crtohusld sleep in the fo-ard We'd have to go for lightwelght * v , and could be happy crew and a hand water maker for bunklng there, but 1 t d be careful extended voyaging, but that :s not about who we invlted on that basls. serious since we'll be spendlng the Ben Mullet slarts his TlKl 30 build Som e people m ight not be happy malority of our tlme day sailing projèct with a saling safarï holiday sleeplng fo- ard, but adventurous around Islands and estuaries in on l chlldren of a11 ages would think it a tropic places, wdth the odd voyage - ake Karfba, Zimbabwe in one of the f/rsl batch of TIKI 30's ever great idea as the seasons change. :///1. His report tells all? l n any tem perate weather, the Saillng . Ahh well this is a

~~cockplt floor makes a fine double W harram and no mlstake. Just~~

' '' ' Oh whoo l'm only a novlce TIKI ' ' . . . o . ' sallor. and other disclalmers Most . l . ' k ..$ t. $',. :s' ''r)'a r . ., , of my salling experience was way ' ' ( ' ; )j.k r .k ' k r)'é' a t ' ' ' ' $ t' :5.9 ' ' t j ;jj, .q . . q.! ..; 3n% ) : ) a; J t' '. a''ur: a' ., ) . ( :. .. ' ) ) . ba c k C .. ma V:' , dp.?RJ;KD', Z t ,tl ,t . ' , a nd I n d i ng h ies a nd ' M., , monohulls untll about a year ago. ys. t . yp.uz . .1( ,. ,,j, sj gakts=ra x!ç k rj' pk j y.g ' '..7,x .- yjJ./ - j=jy '.,)y j:y p . tr jy.,k. . ; gt; .. ; j) , rl, vt y. j c:z.!.j :. ;y,. w s a . yb ( ;2 rt t' ë. ' .1: t. , . . 4 .. . . t but l've crewed and helmed on T6KS ' t. 11 .. . E $ ' !t . . ' . -jvL 2 1 s and 26s, albelt briefly, and had * g é ', '='.2 L . 1 a supreme rlde or two on Patrick . Orme-l-ynch's stretched Oro 'Alias' ' ' . So, with caveats in perspectlve here goes . The flrst ta e . j - N ste Is wlth the eye. and ' ' *.N - k h . -.... - ,. '-*- the TIKI 30 Is a Npical W harram, In 4 - - -- . . . that the f eallty exceeds aîl t'W-'w'S d , . .x =. p.,.i. . rawlngs and photographs. They . . just Iook right Other designers 'a' . . eat your hearts out. The practkcalltles are well catereö for. wlth adequate room for OIly The TIKI 30 on Lake Kariba, Zim babwe (5.4.'. 12O 1bs ) apd me (6' 2.. 220 Ibs ) to get about, get In and out bed under the stars (wIth a lilo or occasionally (remem jn er ourjack of wlthout dlfflculty and ablute ln , csoltm, fsolde epw, cook whatever), and the genlus experlence) we . d fI n(j the sweet lthout lngenlous shlelded trampollne spot and as sc Ott Brown says, conflIct or head bum ping To put tjng eith the bendlng and such int sea er slde Is perfect Just as they ' go to windward Ilke a witch, Olly and l add o context ' it stands for a snooze or even a despite a slight 1y baggy maln and up to well over 1 00 d n th years of Iife between us whole night. wee o e hullsj The tiller never needs more t ) aa a finger's One of my n The same trampoline seatlng will pressure, wlth Just a hlnt Of weather eedless concerns was easlly take four each side of your helm Dellghpu j. 4a 'fdouble bunk' in a hull only some tabje while Ieavlng room for the eet wlde 1 normally like our If b cooks to perform at the other end Se -steerlng to wlndward Is eds a 1ot wlder In practlce. no jj problem of the cockplt, and in the ga ey faultless (for hours) with just a bit of . slnce a shore ssde bed bb t witbout feeling cramped. and ru er bungee on the tlller No thlps you out If you get too close to allowlng free access to the head. chance to try jong term strategies e edge, but there's plenty of room to ro: about ln a four foot bunk wlth . cj 0 wnwlna ,but we hope a cruising sldes There s room fof everythlng ' but we , chute wlth a reefed jIb or steerlng have a concern over payload for a sall (tarpaulln cut to shape) Headroom wasn't a problem either crew of three voyaging across sheeted amildshlps fOr bungee-to- since one naturally slts where It ls' oceans Three 20OIb bodles will ft iller steer n g m ay work 1 have Iow, and can stand tn the open (or fnoer e. da na orocuenadn d 2o0r0 3Ib0s doaf wate.r each aIth half ys Iet S say, -open ) hatch If standlng Is f tue payloadl Now They run stralght these boats there goes haI . and

Page 8 stlll manoeuvre well ln tight shlp' rather than a 'boat'. Maybe corners. Not dinghy-llke spin-on-a- Some may see a 30 as too sm all - Iater on. . coln. but turn OK In two Iengths, I can see thelr polnt. a year ago l'd maybe a bit over W atch the tillers have agreed. But the m anageability W e were quoted good prices on when motorlng (or sailing) astern! of a Iight cat combined with the the timber and W EST materials by They can go over-centre and the seawodhiness of a W harram is Robbins Timber who delivered on bungee is there to Iimit travel. W e'I1 such a powerful package. tim e and sent suppod from use a nylon Iine for this I think W essex Resins to advise us - very Lake Kariba can blow up quick, and fodunate, since there's too m uch The motor was a Honda 9.9 hp throws shod steep seas at you, m icrolight filler in the parts Iist, ln and the least loved item aboard. lt with reflections off the shores and our view, and we misread the need worked OK, yes. But l don't love islands buildlng up quickly and for 407 filler lt's not optional! Peel motors on a sailing boat Ours w1l1 dylng away quite soon. After any pIy is 200 pounds a 100 metre roll. have a lighter, smaller (5hp. big blow it's quite an aggresslve sea, but it will probabdy save us double prop) Johnson Iongshaft. and we but this never once gave me cause that in sandpaper and time. will be seeking JW D approval to for concern In 'Sanyati'. re-site the outboard Iike 'halr a TIKI W e have alI the m aterlals, and 38, to porl and forward in the O1Iy (on her first sail as crew) was have Just built (cobbled? bodged? It cockpit. This way it can llve ln a holding on grimly with both hands was our own design ) a ply dinghy box. with fuel and battery in the and trying hard not to yelp, since for practice just as welll) then we'll matchlng starboard box. the motion was more than she's do cockpit, rudders beams. and used to. But it was 'W heeee. . !'' bits Iike that until we/re properly One reason for this was that the from me. Headless Ben Poor played ln wlth epoxy wood Then standard-shaft Honda had a low OIIy W hee two hulls In a trlce, and break for box mount which splashed nolsily Christmas! (W e wlsh ) on waves, and it weighed the stern 'Sanyati' dId hobby-horse, but down wlth Its fuel and battery. considering aII the weight ln her Flnlsh wldl be 'good workmanlike' Amidshlps Is best, in our vlew. ends, I'm not surprised. W lth the and not that glossy. 1 get itchy when m otor, fuel batterles ground people talk about 'Yachts and The beam Iashings are very neat. tackle, water. ice, beer and BBQS yotting' Boats are m y but I distrust those trucker web m oved from out the ends to preference tensloners and prefer a lashing am idships there'll be no problem' W e also prefer the lashing-type W ish us Iuck! attachments Ruth and John Com bine that with the ability to feel Barker at JW D kindly provided us your way up a creek with a pole and wlth the TIKI 31/26 drawings to your feet (2 foot draft) and beach (Ed. Those wlth email may well enable us to do this W e are not where you will, jumping ashore have read thls report a/ready, but concerned about set-up time, mostly dry-footed and you'll see they won 't have seen the diagram remember! But getting/keeping why we went for building a TIKI 30 Ben has now sent us to go +11h the tensloners when far afield Is one now not a TIKI 38 some day W e words ) more problem . Rope's neat, and both ioved the TIKI 38 we saw at we'll have plenty aboard. Orca in Banket, but l feel unready for the slze and weight of a 'sm ail Making sall was easy enough for OIIy and 1, but we'll make lt even ,' ' a''*e TIKI 30 C ockpit N heasler on ours by uslng a z-pad Forward ' V . . Z ,2..' ' . s .'ape' alyard for peak and throat ' - -- u . .. Reefing and unreeflng should be a r q . J-V ..- . really relaxed item for the llghtest - :1r â.r' (. j: . ''' t, <' i . L -A' i 6'.r j crew, so a good roller jib Is on

order. together with a 3-reef maln* . - r.t L 'ql. 't?râ'?-q..s .,' .Jr .e wLn. and a cruising 'chute. (Ed. Not too : 2 . r. sure about the 3rd reef in the Ma/rl t --.- - - - -. -.4 Ben, a Tiki wing sail reefed that @. ; 4. small would be a very poor IE ' - - - - - ' . . wlndward sall - why not conslder a ' * î ( ,.. -:4 r Storm Trysail, as used by Beg ' f ' Beggs on ''Sharing the Challenqe' '- - c 1. Qzêa? ln the Single Handed Transatlantic ''' ?''

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TsE puaxs ,. w o . ! T h e f Irs t s e t of N A R A l M K l V p Ia n s ' ' .k. were sold in March 1972 to a Mr ' ' t Colin de Ruig of Durban South ' ' j # , . Afrlca He had to wait about two . ,: months for the plans to arrive as ' ' - '''!% t' ' th ,a ï 1ik ey had not been com pleted. 1 ' must have been 8 years oId at this .. stage. The plans changed hands ' ' twice ending thelr journey with ' Lawrence Moorcroft of Durban t . who spilled many cups of coffee t- .k. ov , k s. ..p* . over them over the next 1 5 years 7 .....u....=.... . - ' '

GETTING DIRECTION ln 1992 after dream lng since child- p' '1 hood about crulsing Pacific islands. ' 1), . I t w a s. t Im e f o r m e t o b u i I d , a n d t h e ' . V. ' ' i declslon as to what to build cam e falrly easlly. A work colleague and and what was really off-putting was of that day. A week later when the frlend, Geoff Cronle was always that he described It as an over- other study book arrived it ended trylng to convince me that the boat grown Hobie Cat. I sent away for up ln file 1 3 - Geoff put me In touch to build was a W harram , and at fiçst the study book anyway, and at the wlth Lawrence who, by thls time h1s words were falling on deaf ears sam e tlm e I sent away for the had designed and staded h1s EI- as It wasn't even m y Intenhon to Roberts study book The W harram Iipse 1 3, and was not going to bulld build a m ultlhull After aii, I had book arrived first. wlth Im presslve a boat from those plans anyway. never heard of or seen a W harram . efhclency and l was sold by the end Three days, 300 km , and R1000.00

'' '' ...... s..s ... ., (at that stage the exchange was .e -< , ' .g 4 . . , ... ,aj, , ,# siX rand t0 the POU rld ) 1 WaS the ' * ...... foudh proud owner Of the plans for , NARAI MK 4 No l which by thls .. - ' stage was twenty years old. ': ' I had to give my solemn word that I would build a boat from these plans. . this century (it could possi- .. bIy be complete next century) I ' .. - have been buildlng for almost four - c.-.. .5-5 .. L1 . . y e a r s n o w , a n d L a w r e n c e r e l i - . A u J . / ew-s giously visits us to m ake sure we - - g! . are building ''his'' boat properly. . y

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- ., ' Striking up a deal w1th Alison that . iy she was allowed to start having .k.: k.r - ' . v . chlldren when $ Staded building, the Intentlon being to crulse with chil- The port hull prior to httlng out The cabln roof line ls sweetl dren . . I sold my microllght and used

Page 10 ' ''-- ; . . . From here on, 4 have deviated from 'èi ' c2 z k. ' ' . the plans Conslderably The W har- 4 . .. , .. . k. ;) . ' ' .!' ram commtlrlity here jtlst haven't .- ' .jk . '.. ! declded if I am building a NARAI- ' 7. t TIKI or a TIKI-RAI The fo- ard ..* . o. .- . . ,..c ) . . and aft decks don t have the stan- '* -'' ' ' d ard hatches but rather a sm all

7a. cabin roof. The front compartm ents ''' . '' . . are bunks and an adult can nOw sit ' up ln the bunks with just enough ' ê ' %,. .. . . head room The aft Compartm ents > . ,.' '#' ' . ' '- - - - - . .m . g. . . are a workshop (in the pod hull) Ev.-k x '& - . a and a head and basin (in the star- - ,.+'g. ' . '- . .' ' . .q . board hull). The main cabin roof . ,. .. . .v .. . .. : . -. . . . exten d s Overtjye forward and rear . js . . .. wja 'i &!-x ' dotlble bedhs ln the centre of the -Q starboard hull Is the main cabin with a double bedh 1 .35m wide by ' 1 .9m Iong. This bedh is raised and overlaps the aft bedh which is sep- the cash to buy aIl my tlmber and 4ng Iife. and 1 decided what I did and arated from thls cabln and has Its' p1y W ork began In May 1 993, after didn't Ilke about the design The own entry ln the cabin roof above lt Alison and I spent one and a half first hull took nlne months to con- The forward bedh has been cut in months crulslng Madagascar on struct. and the second four months half with a chart table maklng up Rapa Nul. Hans Klaar's TEHINI. Two weeks before the turnlng of the the other part of that cabin A hatch

Thls was great, because Allson second hull. a wind of 120 knots has been placed over this cabin on found that she could accept a cruls- re-lnverted the flrst hull. The havoc both hulls. The por't hull has a fairly i cam e home to was enough to standard format. the galley and sa- conslder cfying, but after plcklng up Ioon being in the centre. with ac- the pleces of my shelter and gettlng cess to the fofward and aft berths everythlng shlp shape agaln, the The saloon table is raised such that actual damage to the hull was mlni- the saloon floor Is at bunk level. m aI A bare W harram hull Is very givlng Ioads of usable storage

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W harrams, and the beams wlll be ' .. . ' roped on instead of the traditional a . r tl bber mounts The rudders and ' . '' ' . - . :t:.. . . . ; gy . ....,k x tlller arms have been constructed v' . .; ...... - . . ts ... as well. and they will also be roped ')( 'tt . . ' '' on ln the TIKI styse s 'j 4 have to stlll construct the centre ,.w. deck whlch wlll have a cockpit pod P -* .*- ' '-- slm llar to the TIKI 38, and 1 will ' '. . :- ... definltely use the schooner wlng .0 sail rig sim llar to the TIKI 38 and w e

GAIA AIl a need Is a copy of the rig Z ' w ' . . . . details of a W harram that does use . ' '' .k. . . . 'z . 'y .A<: r-., thls rlg, t. . and I w111 adapt It to sult my . . N . 'xN. needs. I stlll have to construct the .' % ' . . '. '-'. Nh hatch covers for the hundreds of ' ' -N. . < xsu entrles lnto the hulls and l must stlll ' - ... .- ... - - - N- .- m ount polycarbonate over the hun- Concluslon hope those people have not In- dreds of wdndows In the cabln roof cluded cleanlng and nose plcklng (1 llke Iots of Ilght and alr, but I am l hope to have my dream floatlng tlme as part Of thelr bulldlng tlme told that 1 ' should also get used to by the end of thls year It should be So far I have spent R1 0.000 and Iots of unwanted water. ) l must also Complete in under 3500 hours and still have to buy salls. Ilft raft. out- m ake an outboard bracket, two under R9,000 1 have kept a de- board. and radlo I enloy the maga- masts and the flttlngs for the rlg. talled record Of expenses and zine. and envy those people al- Oh yes, I wlll also make m y own hours spent. and l must say that ready sallir)? I would also welcome pulley blocks 1 Ilke the traditlonal the estimated bulldlng hours on any one wlshlng to share buildlng methods of uslng pulley advantage, the plans are not far of'f the mark experlences to wrlte (address in rather than havlng wlnches I have heard a lot Of people com- yearbook) m ent on the tlm e estfm ates . I

(contlnued rcorn page 4) W e retired wlth a botlle of cheap abraslons on your fndex hnger from natural curves W e traced detalis of red Another solutlon . whlch we pulllng It tlght The ctlt edges of the head and foot of a prow and adopted. Is to use a router and wlre are very sharp and always stern W e took our trusty Bosch score a 45 degfee slot through result ln small Irrftatlng cuts and Jlgsaw and cut out our Jlgsaw three of the flve plys kn m uch the gashes ln hotter. more hum ld shapes For Ellsabeth the thlnking same way as one would score a (Contlnued or? page 26)

It was Just a Varlation of a sewlng sheet of cardboard prlor to foldlng. machlne overcame the reslstance Thereafter. fill the slot wlth epoxy towards a made-for-a-man tool A No extra cutting. or stltchlng or week later we recelved In the post glass-taplng needed ln June. In .;, a note It sald - Be careful The our two weeks. lt ralned and did not bottom of the boat wllt not bend stop W e moved the t- I I ets trlto ' % . wlth 5-pIy tlm ber It s too stlff Valerle s front room - handliv ' . L ) ' I 4. - ,.j t..x ja . j. j.j j .g ,.j j j. ,.j j.j ,.j .j: j .'k./. . ' il..

W e were on our way now , we had a calm I ordered sltting room ., ,' taken two weeks off work to do aI1 became transform ed tnto a boat- . .''. x - W thls, so carefully tlmed and yard. Nelqhbours dId not belleve ' ' planned W e understood the the story W e started sewlng the =' problem - the bottom of the boat Is separate cut-outs by uslng a heavy X 1 : not a vee-sectlon llke other gauge fishlng Ilne in a runnlng or ' W harram designed craft - the locklng stltch It's a m uch faster bottom ls culwed around three and for most of the Jolns along the formers or templates Flve Iayered Iengths of plywood it's fine. There ' . plywood ls m uch stlffer than three are other advantages of thls '. ply It won't bend In the sam e way approach lnstead of uslng the ' k One solutlon, proposed by the usual stripped electrlcal copper W harram team Is to create a wlre to sew the cut edges of p$y ' '* * ' / shallow vee proflle Instead together - It's a 1ot klnder to flngers - k/ .. . . fOr a stad Although you may get - '''

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R Oun d B ri -I n tientsetlrnegs tminyg mine tatel ancdh inhga s mbee na bveoruyt Cru-l s*l ng *I n sIlomlljtusd eo. f seelfn dreullrannccee anadr et hamt umcyh S OPS. fhuarsth ebr eaewn ayv tehray n in4 thearde sImtlnagg lnaendd. It1 Robin Graham gets to grjps wlth thoroughly recom mend It to anyone hls PAHI 31 Gadzooks. wantlng to stretch themselves and enjoy a rewardlng adventure ln June 97 : set off from North cornwall on my recently acqulred Durlng thls comlng wlnter reflt I will .*' , Pahl 31 'Gadzooks'' My lnitlal be dooklng Into the possibllltles Of lntentlon was to clrcumnavlgate reorganislng Gadzook's Iayout so . c

the UK m ainland antlclockwlse, thls that essentials such as .. , ,::a , '. '.' 'q x,. . . i < 1 .-..- summer, howevef this wish was instruments, charts 1 j. v . .j '> z .. ..- . curtalled by Iack of funds time Com munlcatlon and shelter can be -*- ' unhelpful weather and the Io' glstlcs' more accessible from the helm ' -- .. of sailtng slngle handed. This Should dramatlcally increase ' . the boats suitability for slngle My Journey stopped at Berwlck- handing and for longer passages. upon-Tweed (East end of Scotland/ England border) This happens to l flnd that my boat won't sall close be my hom e town so wlth E17 In my enough to the wlnd to make pocket and nothlng In the bank I reasonable progress agalnst a j would also welcome any declded that thls was as good a headwlnd. The cost of runnlng a suggestyons on how to modlfy the place as any to drop my hook two-stroke outboard ls probably dn front cabin ventllators so as to sadly no job was fodhcoming and the reglon twelve times the cost of allow generous ventilation without wlnter began to set ln so l declded using a dlesel auxillary. not to tj ) e sea com ing in to vlslt when to retrace my steps to Dover where mentlon the added falllbillty, the struggling to wlndward in rough there seem ed to be more work need to carry considerable ditjons con . avaslable and arl oppodunity to quantlties of volatile iiquld. and the carry out much needed pltiful contrlbutlon to battery power. jocpdentally 1 momentarily glanced malntenance on my Iong neglected lf anyone has any Ideas on fitting a j é; knots on my vast array of vossel dlesel Installatlon 1 will be k It jnstruments coc p . (a handheld lnterested to hear about it ,(1 hear ops) whi1e salllng slngle handed 1 have found stngde handed salling m uffled calls of ''It's a salllng boat on a passage which averaged 8 to be an excellent medium for try the sails') Oh for an Ideal worldf knots W j cked ehQ

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R o & C ookie ..k. 2) x .; q'. contl., nue tj j,jj e.I r ',.i .t: /jjk,.yjkj '.!,r ic adventure .wt+jz' - - ep - a..-0zt '' - - ' - Rory McDougall Ieaves Aden and . L- * > ' ' ' '- -- x- -u' roceeds to Cyprus. . .near/y home! .-,*,.- - - . p . . . r c'r ' - . = 7 . . x.,. C . t ' . . '' ' GALLE TO ADEN ' .. . '. .,. ' + 'Y - - '- ' . . ' In ' ' +.+z.aX 'C ' ... . ' ' .- ' ' Feb 1 2 1997 AII anchor warps. - - hulls and dlnghy scrubbed off after :w , ...... one month s weed growth in Sri 'u >+ .l - .+-.:y.s:- 7 , ,uj ù, . , , . s . , , . y; . . .., .t.p. .u, g oq-ws jy . , y ., . Lanka 1 m excited to be headlng . . . , , OLlt to sea agaln alone *-.; >r-u.,: ,* âk ., k. ljr:-, î'z bvjhiA %.. - k. ' n'. q ' ' . -t à. . z. jy,'; ,.. ' , Toto havlng V' 4 ?'?'' ,:k.. found hlm self anothe w . ...4 r... r boat to sall ; ' .v...r 'r '' j . . 9, OR : j ' Farewells to aI1 my friends made In Frlends com ing to play in the Gulf of Aden

.. sj knot NNE wlnds g'ves Cookie a - = A ' deltghtful beam reach and the only ' ' - - - - - . hardship aboard Is breaking up the monotony I kept occupied with Iots of cooklng of bread. cakes plzzas etc. and even cooked up some chips one tranquil evening '- *< Read heaps of paperbacks and ; o. * .: caught up on Iots of Iittle boat Jobs I j7 ' -*7 ' '- à - ; .. - .. . r . - z.X1 ) ' .. l 61* )-..' .,'. - '- . . likh e re-spllclng the anchor warp to ':Ie;#, .. M' +; i. w st ... .. : ..,;; . 4:l 151 In a n d s h a r pe n i n g a I I t h e ;, +'-.s'.....-.-Y- =..V '- -' l ':7 *u kp-u :iiyrr-.. . .T knlves j. . .. ajjg , scissors, piane and chlsel c , $ e..i:e y.. I had the feeling 1 would encounter . 'i- + s >* .,.* 4 'R h - k another yacht On thls trlp with so ' o w 'V -. . N= . .. . .y, many crulsefs Converglng at tne I . p .. +j -'* ''' * - . Gulf of Aden on their way to the . J ' . .. Red Sea I actually m et two! One ' t. % *x A . . 'Y N w . * w -. was the lndonesian square rigged .

*. >- - .. sy zvu. sail trainpng shlp that went past one 1+ œ .- . * * ..& t and the other was a British '-k . YUOSO , yacht I met 2 days out from Aden. Depadlng Galle W e salled close together for half an A d hour to chat and ask aII the regujar ollars worth of bread drylng In q . . the sun for 2 days Loaded up wlth coconuts to drlnk uestlons of 'where from ' where , . for the flrst 1 0 days Yellow pack to , 'how Iong , etc It was m lghty Lasted 3 weeks Of snacking up the oo the stern contalns Inflatable good to have someone to talk to R dlnghy and the 2 kedge anchors after 1 5 days at sea Thls was my ed Sea. and warps hrst tlme slngle-handed slnce my

Pacthc crosslng back In 1992. off from the ldylllc lndlan Ocean At night in the Gulf of Aden, small fish harbour and shape a course due There was an abundance of Ilfe In would stray between Cookie's hulls west away from Galle, 2.200 m lles the Arabian Sea I was prlvileged becom lng startied and flinglng of Arablan Sea ahead shlm merlng to see two Marlln Jumplng and themselves agalnst the fibreglass between the bows Thls voyage Ieaplng alongslde Cookie at until flying out astern W hat a from Galle to Aden has to be the sunset Marly dotphlns and pllot Iaugh! most settied ocean crosslng I've whales accompanled us Into the ever had Day after day of 1 0 to 1 5 G ulf of Aden as a wonderful send- Belng such a seoled trlp, I was able

Page 16 to brush up on my star navigation prepare for the com lng rigors of the Cookle set off to face the notorious ready for the Red Sea, due to Red Sea. i met lots of new frlends Red Sea on the 9m March 1 997 occaslonal unreliability of the sun, it on yachts and was able to swap being refracted In the heat of the charts and courtesy flags with AII psyched up for a tough sail day Polaris was my greatest ally another headlng in the opposite ahead. Three hours out of Aden a glvlng a qulck indication of the direction. AII nodhbound yachts metal pin falls onto the tram p and latitude. were quite apprehensive of all the my gaze turns mastwards just as horror stories about the Red Sea the jib flops onto the deck. A ADEN A very enjoyable weeks' battle, so we bolstered each other nearby anchorage serves well to stop there despite belng a up and gave lots of support for our pull in and repair the halyard block com mercial pod wlth dally sllcks of depadures. and scrub Cookie free of weed and oil. m aking her as smooth and slick as possible. The Iower part of the Red Sea Iived up to aII expectations. 35 knot southerly winds through the strait of Bab el Mendab (Gates of Tears). I hand steered Cookie for 3 days surfing m ildly at times and making 1 0 knot averages. At night. l set a conical drogue astern. hooked Harr'y up to steer and got some exhausted sleep while Cookie am bled at a nlce controlled 3 to 4 knots. One scar'y incident happened when I saw two ships statlonary across my path one afternoon. 1 had heard a repod of shots hred at a yacht who strayed too close to islands containing a Yemenl Another hard day's sailing in 25 to 30 knots winds. military base. Now when I saw the two ships were the Yem en Navy. 1 One reef In malnsall Jib barberhauled ln tight with lazy sheet. Sudan feared the worst expecting m aybe Mountains form an impressive backdrop. to get boarded. searched and You can see why the fore hatches have to be totally watedlght. Sometim es roughed up som ewhat! However Cookle has another nlckname - the Red Submarine. lt a1I becam e clear that they weren't Iying in wait, but rather a supply bunker oII to get plastered aII over the dinghy and topsldes. A handy tIp Is to glve your dinghy a heavy coat of boat wax before Iaunching it Into a known oily harbour. Makes clean-up easler afterwards. This was my first Arab countfy and a fasclnatlng experlence. The call of the M uslim Mosques float across the harbour 5 tlmes daily. the first one breaklng the 4 30am stillness! Men in turbans and flowing robes wlth very ornate daggers slung below thepr bellies, Iuckily just to uphold the dress traditions! The women, who are m uch more scarce in daily life, are seen fully covered up in black robes and head scarves. I was impressed and touched by the gentleness and slncerlty of the people which was a Happy sailing ln the Red Sea - once you are used to it! fresh change after some of the tourlst sharks of Galle Note the back up forestay fitted in case of falure in the heavy beating day Aden was a perfect spot for m e to after day.

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Marsa Mubarak - in the m 'ddle of the Fgyptlan desed Big genoa haullng Cookle to Dlve boats offer wonderful hospltality and reprovisloned us for another two wlndward up the Gulf of Suez weeksl Spectacular 700 meter hlgh vessel was refuelling a frlgate and cedalnly couldn't argue agalnst It , fmroomu ntthaei nSs inpalui nPgeen lIntsou ltahe sea that IS why they were stopped A It was fabulous huge slgh of rellef and I felt silly for Iettlng my lmaglnatlon run wildl During the day salllng routlne 1 pride! After the second scrape. I navigated Cookle using Dead Iearnt to set sail half an hour Iater Cookle and I made It to the Erltrea Reckonlng plots of course and when more Ilght gave better - Sudan border as the southerlles dlstance. not to mentlon a ùarge eyeballlng of the reefs gave way to northerlies and the real amount of eyeballlng In reef Red Sea salllng began For the infested areas I admlt to golng One of my flrst anchorages In remalning 900 mlles to Suez I onto the coral twlcel Both tlmes Egypt was In a deep desed Inlet adopted a routdne of long day salls though. we were leavlng from the whlch serves as a base for the then anchoring for the nlght to fest nlght-tlme reef anchorage and not numefous dive charter boats My after hand steerlng iong hours seelng Isolated bomm les In the Iow first taste of Egyptlan hospltaltty Thls proved to be qulte soclable 5am sunllghtl Lucklly belng flat was when severai of these dlve meetlng up wlth frlends calm I could Jump onto the reef In boats plled m e wlth thedr left over unexpectedly in some of the sandals and Ilft Cookle off safely. provlslons I set off again almost anchorages along the way The no dam age done except to m y better stocked than two weeks on-board saylng at 4am each mornlng over coNee and porrldge was - ''Just another day at the offjcel' In summ afy. the Red Sea proved vel'y exclting l enjoyed the wlndward salllng and certalnly Iearnt to tweak and trlm Cookle lnto the groove and kept pace with 30 to 35 foot monohulls no troublet On the whote. wtnds were 20 to 25 knots but one aflernoon we baoled lnto 35 knots for the last 10 miles to the anchorage. Cookie always am azes me. especlally m aklng good 4 knot progress to windward ln a gale and short choppy seas

~~I had a couple of stops to sample the reef snorkelllng, reputed to be some of the best world-wlde 1 Frlends tow Cookle the flrst mlle up the Suez Canal to the yacht club~~

Paqe 18 I explored the optlons of belng towed through the Canal or gettlng a plggy back on a cargo ship but everything narrowed down to only one posslbility . . . . Oh noI Not an OUTBOARD! Aaaarghhh! ! f Some frlends kindly lent me a 1 0hp Johnson outboard and after knocklng up a strong bracket Cookie was aII set to be a power

boat for 2 days! W ell, the first pllot arrives aboard and before we get underway he has halled a passlng dinghy and done a runnerl So I chase the blighter ashore and he refuses to go on a boat Ilke Cookle 1 Jump up and down and raise hell wdth the agents and another pllot arrlves soon after. I'm not im pressed after forklng out $200 Outboard trial in Suez. US to get through thls bllm mln' canal So the 2'd pllot ls nlce as pie A very unnatural device to have aboard Cookle and eager to catch up on the schedule. The outboard had other ideas however! Half a m lle up the ) canal, a totad electrlcal fallure * deems the bastard motor Iifelessf Nothing for It but to sail back to Suez and I give the pilot a cuppa tea as consoiation Mutter, mutter outboards, mutter! Outboard fixed . $p. e .').j 4+ j again, l'm aII set the next mornlng to try agaln Hah' More setbacks No yacht translts that day because ## a huge supertanker came through, K c1' y' j . . k#. .A . ,.x . . > j ,) ,. . sp4 w. wy..x . x. . s. . . $ .: ) .(,p'e . .. ' : . x .4.' q . / -'. ::+ . / . . ' z #. . # .

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The lohp outboard propeled Cookie at 6 knots when lt was flat calm - 4 knots Into choppy conditions. Cook'e was very heavily Iaden wlth 3 people outboard. the bracket, 60 Iitres of fuel, etc W e pulled a big heavy stern wake behlnd us N earller In Aden! The Egyptlans Canal to the Yacht Club for a good seemed to me very concerned that rest There Is a general m ood of vlsitofs to thelr country were well excited rellef by aII the yachts cared for and went away with a arrlving at Suez wlth the trials and ' good impresslon of their country trlbulattons of the Red Sea behind Roll back the bed and hey presto - I cerlalnly felt very tlred and a TIKI 21 navlgation station And sol After one month of enjoyed the relaxed soclalising for chlpplng away dally at the 1300 the flrst week before gettlng down W aterproo f cjaart case easidy m ade mlles. the porl of Suez hove Snto to the problem of how to get from PVC and duct tape Very nec- slght and some good friends towed through the Suez Canal. d li C essary, especlally when uslng e . ookle for one mlle up the famous cate photocopied charts .

Page 19 '- - +*. ve W elcome back to costly Europe. . > * : #' ' % 4 ' . - . I've been spoilt with the cheap cost % ' : s $r . j : .*> -. .j r ; . ' of Iiving through Asia and the ' . . p F,;, . I v a u- 1 . : ;. . Middle East! . j . g. . e' * ' . . a . r. g F-i . . ( .. y . .w.- . . ..x Cookie is now resting on a mooring in Paphos Harbour in W est Cyprus . j . '+. . . ' . -- ' and I've joined my Mum for a 2 -,4111 - . . -5-.:-,--..... -- week holiday in Crete. I tried to sail . . ?#* wh -

# - , k A xw virtually becalmed for 3 days off ,.x ' '' . ' Cyprus so I took a ferry boat ' xo.-v- instead and returned to Paphos at e i the end of May with Nikki to continue the Cookie saga across **.g . the Med. So far. l get the ' . '> v2y x ' ' . > ' . . : ) *. q .. . im pression we will be in for more W%++#.&:b . - ' Iong, hot. calm saibing like . #A +'. >&. 4. , Indonesia, but time will tell. .:4 + > :s - - - Outboard bracket gettlng dismantled and ditched ashore in Port Said Cheers. Rofy. blocking the canal channel. '

Ah well. You can only try your best. . * .- 1 hand the outboard back to my . friends as they are off to Israel and . / w k I take a trip to Cairo to meet my ' ' ' w * Ozzie frlend Nikkl who is joining . . . .' '. q-W...t x . ' Cookle again and helping me to < . sail back to the UK. A wonderful . *'-* 'Q* % . + few days away from boats A .< i . '- a-:.st ' < oeutboards, agents, canals etc and ' / ./' . z'z l , * et Y , xperiencing the pyramids. . .x ' u 4 < s. Tutankamm un treasures and other ..s2 j. sights of Cairo and the Nile has m e ' fired up to glve this Suez Canal - * another try. A lohp outboard is t very kindly donated again and this time we get through 2 days of ' motorlng with an overnight stop half way. I feel so relieved after being stressed and strung out. all 'rjye Iashing to secure the masHoot ader the locating block sheared otf the time waiting for the motor to 9oing to wlndward in 25 knots of wind off Cyprus. give trouble which it did. but only the last 5 m iles Phew! Quite an experience though m iles and m iles hassles of Suez of straight canal thr,ough flat desed. intense for Nikki , tob ubte ith weadsi nrga thoeurt C ITTY Z A G

BIg ships passlng close by like to sea so soon. W e were heading stately marching elephants. direct for Crete but after 3 days of struggling with the winds we ran I was thinking of a lelsurely stay in back with a near gale to Cyprus NORTHERN W INTER SOCIAL Port Said to sort Cookie out, get and found a Iovely comfy marina to GATHERING. Me to finally T0 be beld on 28th February '98 at Nikki settled aboard properly and to rest up for a week. dltch the outboard bracket. relax after the Red Sea saga and . H John & Helen Cartwright s owever, the yacht club there was Nikkl to adjust to the ways of st stephens Garth, a dump and the harbour very oily cookie again. Thixendale, and full of rubbish. Not the most Malton. relaxlng of places, so Nikki and I c FPrus was a fun time of marina N' Yorksbire.Yol; 9TG.

got through the chores ASAP and socialising, exploring ancient towns S set off into the Mediterranean Sea on a m otorbike and gettlng bame arrange mene as Ialt year, please on Aprll 24.% l personally was very acquainted wlth llfe in the ring something to add to the feast!

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tlme Iater 1 vlslted M ike and Jenny mistakes that really put Mlke's This preo Tiki and got more information on patlence to the test (what would W harram and W harrams. I heard you m ake of somebody who 26 has a new from Scott that Bob Goode was forgets the oars of his dinghy ! I). selling HELARCTUS and Mlke but he took it aII in a ve@ daid-back O W n e r. went to see her for me. The boat manner (Thanks agaln. Mlkel). l was ! n good condition and I eventually got the hang of it and Richard Lata became the new owner This aII became more confident. By the happened In the winter of 1996/7 tlme Jenny and M ike continued W e d1d lt ! W e've beached the cat d u rlng M I ke's a nd Jen n y's their trip down towards Spain, I was for the first tlme! Aren't aII these preparatlons for thelr great sail to already looking fofw ard to more people iooking at us as if we had Croatia. I am very grateful to them wind Not too much. mind you, just landed In a UFO ? W hat a that they could still spare some because the Golf de Llon can be great feellng this is ! W e jump off, tlm e for m e On a week-end In very trlcky. W hoever has seen a put the anchor ln the sand some 20 March 1 997 I collected Tramontane whlpping up the sea In meters up the beach. take the HELARCTUS and trailed her down a Force 1 0 knows that even in parasol and some towels and ' make ourselves comfortable on the beach

But what's that T A1I of a sudden HELARCTUS has changed her / posltlon She ls no Ionger at a right p . angle to the beach but has swung rxmw round so the pod hull and its rudder u u Is about to be lifted onto the sand. . , .1 1 . . It dawns on me that thls m ight spell trouble and I snap Into actlon >- > . .- ' . . lmm edlately My friend and l a xx .wA . . . . . manage to push HELARCTUS back Into deeper water, take the N > '- = anchor back to the boat motor out backwards, drop a stern anchor and com e back to the beach, where we secure her again with the m aln anchor. Thlnklng about what sort of Helarctus. still as good as she was 10 years ago when she was launched. m lstake we made we reallze afterwards that wlth aIl the excltement of our approach to the to a Iittle village near Agde in the sum m er one has to be extra beach we had slmply m lssed the Herault department It was quite a careful fact that there was an onshore trip, ieaving Germany on Friday at wind. so thls mlshap was bound to noon and arrivlng back hom e on l intend to carry out a few occur. Monday mornlng at 5 a.m. . just 'n modifications slnce l will mostly be tlme to get ready for work - 5000 sailing slngie-handed. At thls stage Thls was one of many episodes km aI1 told (October 97) I'm already looklng that made Ilfe excitlng during the forward for a week's sail at the end flrst sailing trlals off Cap d'Agde in In July. at Iast, m y wife my of the m onth. After that the Langedoc area In the South of daughter and l went down to the HELARCTUS will be sittlng on the France durlng the summer holidays South of France where I was to traller agaln waiting for the coming 1997 Had it not been for Mike and meet M ike and Jenny on their way year Jenny W ynn. I don't think these to Agde on the idyllic Canal du M ldi. adventurous weeks would have ln Agde there Is the famous round come about After comlng across a lock which Iinks It with the Herault drawlng of a W harram catamaran rlver, before the canal ends in the about three years ago I decided Etang de Thaw W hile Jenny went that thls was the boat for me and back to England for a fodnlght, eventuadly Iooked up Scott Brown Mike showed me how to sail a TIKI . to vlew a TIKI 2 1 and 26. Som e In the process l m ade a couple of

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PLX 'U$ 1 A simple cramp for hold- N ing stringers and p#y etc. The U shape and wedges LJWR ILOCK are from scraps of ply, 1/2/ thick. 1 Slf D;Ef' kâ/h.K- CLAM P 2 One clamp, but need to P 1 Q CQL clamp two points? Try this. c theedfhlequ e t.;3-p.INû6K 'T'-O PrtEIsk'f.; Ptll/ 15 val'fel 0KI1 Ct-/tYê 3 A box trolley made from ply. Again 1/2' would work well. The axle for the wheels is attached from the underneath. and Iocated with 'U'' bolts. Final touch - carpet in the vee to protect the hulls. ldeal for aI1 TlKis. up to 26' and HITIAS. If heavier, tfy two trolleys per huil. 3 Remember the skeg when manoeuvrlng! !

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Page 22 In fact it sold llke hot cakes in Coral Anyway enjoy your summer Our AUSTRALIA Bay to tourlsts from a1I over the wlnter has Just started and it's world freezing ( daytime Iow 20's C. nlght Mike W eigh tells the stoly time sometlmes down to slngle Heaven only knows when 1111 get figures. of Fy Nghath .. F .. y Nghath back in the water as I'm also helplng a guy near here to (Ed Xdnarl - lf kve had those Thought lt was about tlme for a b4t make the rigging for a steel repllca temperatures up here during the of a note I have now settled tn . winter of an 1890 s Scottlsh fishing vessel . kve would sail aIl year Bundaberg and am very slowly (square r i gged) He owned the roundl') (Ed S(lO# d Steve - If w'e attendlng to $dFy Nghaths'' bump's Or i ginal for about 8 years over there had those lerrlperal/re.s /5 the breaks and bruises (supposedly a and jn tjle Mediterranean He also Summer . /) speciadist boatdifter). She finally runs a boat dedivery buslness. arrived on the back of a sem i - t ra il e r havin 9 been passed on b Y a . ' ''*' -'*'m- '-':',-*-'*'-' '*- *1*'*,----'*-'5 - :O ' ' - - ' ...... ' num ber of trucking firms, al1 of ' . ' . whom denled knowledge of how . ' L.'z 4 ' ''L' the damage occurred u lt was Iike .' 1. . ) that w hen .. . . ! j w e Hedland ,, C , esptl cIak evdle ! it Au tp leina sPt oit'rst #. . '' ' repairable and dt gives me the #C (! excuse to ralse the deck to ' . . K . . . .or j, gunwhale Ievel to take the new ...... : ':lju -. -. w . , ., beams (plans from James . r.. ;. (. ,, W harram Designs) as I believe . ,' . '- ' '. ' . - ,a *Q.,.,. - .:1

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Some photographs Also p I don't : .; 11$.., ) ' . k.' .' .i'sM 'f! '. . . ' @ '' 6l' ' ' i 2$' . recall if 1 Sent a copy of this ' . .- u. . - - ,w . .. rkt.,- '.k'' u. . j ' k .k :y ? , u . . .;v rs .rv . .,y. r.a0ysjj . . . . .y). j yu : tjjy 4 y.j p o s t ca rd p re V 1O u S Iy . Y O u w iI l see 1 t ry p . . (! ' :: u /A xuuapy p g j ) . ' yj.y-$' ! s#;t. . j y 'Xj, ty , j, yu y' , .rs ls slgned John Bld 'tBoris the c' z, C, ' l 'r .. ' v, ,'. ''â .u ''''-c. iïL ' , r ,, E, , Tf jj.h z) jg . .j ;.y .j ,.y x, g j. ., . .* Brave'' (on the correspondance slde). l met hlm when he called into Hedland wlth hIs maln ripped from V9 Nghath as the focal point on the post card - Iooks an ideal beach! top to bottom I'd not Iong arrlved from Coral Bay and gave him some '.p' . chaft coples for hls trip down as far . ' . ' ,e' ,.a .. o as Carnarvon Unfodunately I u .''e ' heard a rumour that he lost the boat between Coral Bay and . . .. .-.- ( Carnarvon I belleve he Ieft Coral ' 'e'v ' . Bay a day or so before Cyclone -m ...... - Frank went down the west coast. 1 ! ... h ope the rumour was unfounded . .'v. ' v '-- ' - . , * .x- - . but I heacd nothing of h1m reaching ' 1 #' .,-,.,... - - carnawon and 1 keep In spasmodic contact wlth Brian Badlett (a ' $ mem ber of the PCA In Carnaœon . who has was encouraged by yours -' .c truly to Join) He didn't get hIs c . ' Nx , W harram until after I'd Ieft there. -' '

A the chader boat skipper l . . t . O> ay .. >. . . . î' referred to on the back of one of ' ' . the photographs suggested to the . . . ;., . :7 &. # - .>,;' .u .:ï w'' '' - '' postcard photographer that the boat would make a great postcard. Mike W elgh with Fy Nghath

Page 23 Alex Milne wrote in around again to head back to Bar- Lem ontree Passage to do our bit of ''CROSSBEAMS? the Australian renjoey Head. having my Iunch on sttopping. over to North Arm Cove, newsletter' the way. lt was still a Iittle bit almost up to Karua, and over to About m id February we set out choppy and I was pleased to note Lower Pindimar for a picnic lunch a from Gladstone to visit Lynne's that even on our Iittle cat, my cup of couple of times. After arranging by Mum at Em pire Bay. As that area tea sat on the deck without spilling phone to meet Dan and Jenny is quite wet, we decided to take the a drop. By now time was getting Golledge, we spent a most enjoy- boat with us and enjoy a bit of on !so l turned and sailed for home. able few hours with them on their sailing while we were down there. enloying having the wind behind Pahi 31 ''W andjinae'. met their son W e wandered along steadily me until turning the corner at W oy Ben and friend W ild Bill. W e were spending a day here, a day there W oy and heading into Em pire Bay. very impressed with the boat and and generally enjoying a ieisurely the workmanship, and the hospital- trip. arrlving on a Friday afternoon. The foltowing day l had Lynqe on ity - the day as the highlight of out After a busy round of family days board once more, we went out into stay in the area. Unfortunately a1l we eventually got round to putting the Bay again. This tim e around good things must come to an end out Hitia 1 7,''Jodi'* together and in Lion Isiand and the water was and our holiday was no exception, the drink. m ooring her at Em pire much calmer, which Lynne Iikes a so a day later found us once more Bay Marina for a couple of weeks lot. lt was a very pleasant Iittle sail pulling the boat apart and preparing which was quite handy as it's only a and on the way back we pulled into to trave! the long road to home and shod walk from M um -in-l-aw's Lobster Beach and had an enjoy- the daily grind. house able picnic ln the warm sun before having a quiet run home. Regards to a1I and wishing every- After spending a few days mud- one warm and fair winds. dling around. sailing up to South By this time it was getting near the Kincum ber over to W oy W oy a end of our fortnight at Em pire Bay couple of times etc. we met Dave but we m anaged to squeeze in one UK M itchell at Pelican lsiand after more day. W e were intending to phoning him a few days eariler and take Lynne's sister for a quiet sail Dave Brooman writes from Stoke organising a sail in com pany. W e up to Gosford but ïack of wind on Trent to say.' sailed up to Gosford and spent a m ade it too quiet altogether. so After two unsuccessful attempts in couple of hours on '#one Day'e after a quick discussion we decided '95 & '96 I decided that this year the Phis and Carla's Captain Cook and to go out on the bay again, where NW area would have a meet even met John Hawken who is in the there m ight be more wind. Once if it was just one polycat and my- process of buiiding his Then we we got out there a nlce gentle self! sailed over to the beach near the breeze took us around Lion Island saillng club and enjoyed a picnic once more, then after we turned The two previous attempts failed lunch with Dave before sailing home it freshened up and had us due to my very heavy work comm it- across the other side of the bay. charging along at a great rate of ment, (Large mortgage and Tan- Here Dave anchored ''Marodi'' and knots! Then it died when we got garoa to suppodl) This year there came for a sail on our Iittle boat for behind the Head and with the two were apparently willing padicipants a couple of hours. horse Suzuki at full throttle we but they contacted me far to late, forced our way against the outgo- ve@ close to the date of the pro- A day or two of crook weather and Ing tide and again Ianded on Lob- pose meet, it was too Iate to make strong winds kept us doing other ster Beach for Iunch. Then a slow any arrangements to accom mo- thlngs for a while but once it died sail home in a dying wind, a Iast date either crews or boats! Next down I decided to venture out to wave to Dave who was tied up at a year people will have to just turn up and we will see what we can do on Broken bay, on my own this time. friends jetty and we were pulling as Lynne was spending some time ''Jodi' out of the water and taking the day. wlth her Mum . Owing to an often her apart in preparation for the next faulty memory l had imagined the bit of our holiday. The meet was organised for the bay to be m uch Iarger than it turned weekend through till Tuesday. out to be and w as soon over near Originally we were intending to do three cats were due to sail in com- Barrenjoey Head, with the water a bit of sailing around W allis Lake pany to Port St. Mary. lsle of Man. still quite lum py from the winds of but owing to the Hepatitis ''A'' scare It finally turned out that just our the day before. Suddenly 1 spied a decided to give it a miss and Tangaroa S'Raka'' with a crew of sail wlth the charecteristic gaff headed for Pod Stephens instead. four eventually depaded from Con- shape coming otlt of Pitwater - to After wandering around looking for way for pod St. Mary with the wind dlscover a Tiki 21 called ''Felix'' if a place to anchor the boat cheap, dead on the nose - 'W here else?'' my mem oe is working correctly we finally stumbied onto Fenning- You m ay ask ! The crew were this tim e. The skipper was heading hams Island, where we stayed at myself. m y partner Sue our friend back to Gosford, so I turned the caravan park and anchored the Alan Perrin and his partner Ros. around and sailed alongside, yarn- boat just out in front, so that was W hat a stirring sight! A fleet of one, Ing until we got to the entrance to brilliant enough for us! W e spent a m otoring past the fairway buoy, Brlsbane W ater where I turned pleasant week here. sailing to wind force 2 on the nose, I remember thinking to myself, .'W e could

Page 24 water of'f Pufhn Island due to a fast ebblng tlde made Ros feel sea sick. but apad from that it was a day for polishing up the sun tans, somehow l finished up as helms- man all day. everybody else was asleep on deck for the best part of the Journey

So the four of us com pleted an arduous weekend of beating the elements. putting on the suntan o11 m alnly! As the first UK NW Polycat m eet I hope that It wlll inspire others to join us next year. Make sure that you have plenty of aux. motor fuel, bring your boat and turn upI Perhaps we can tie in with the Scottlsh meet ln 1998, a modest fleet heading northwards perhaps. W e shall have to see, W atch thls reach across Liverpool Bay at three way we could make 1.o M. would be space! knots if we were going to the M ull to motor aII the way, not m uch fun of Galloway, If we put up every sail 9 hours minim um of outboard we had''. unfodunately we weren't noise The result was a change of ,% going that wayl destination, Moelfre for M onday U K M eets .98 nlght was the cholce. at Ieast If we After the best pad of the day tack- got any wlnd we could motor sail Details of these will appear ln Ing slowly up the coast of Anglesey, with the tide pad of the way. the next Yearbook but these wlth the land just about in slght, I dates may help plannlng. declded that as the shlpplng fore- l don't know If any of you have a cast suggesteö that we would have sim llar Iandmark, but Lymas Point Cornwall week 1st August. much the same weather on Mon- is the one I always want to pass BBQ 8th August day, we would change course for when the tlde turns agalnst me, it Bull Bay, Anglesey , a sm all village takes hours and hours - you would Boats leavlng 9th for Scottlsh wlth moorlngs sheltered from m ost swear we were going backwards. l Meet on early August SW wtnds except N and W think we were. the bearings never winds I have a mooring there myself but seem to change. not even when after belng caught in 1 994 for you try to ''fiddle'' them a bIt to Sco:ish Meet 14th - 16th Aug seven days of gales In Septem ber convince yourself that you are re- I am very cautious about using it ally m aklng progress! W ales Meet for boats headlng The nearest haven is Am lwych back South 22nd - 23rd August Harbour whlch Is more of a danger Another sunbathing day brought us to enter ln hlgh wlnds than staylng to Moelfre a popular stopover for End of cruise BBQ party at where yotl are and praying hard NW . cruising club mem bers who Southdown 29th August. that your ground tackle holds! overnight there regularly. The holding is good, so main anchor to the But today lt was beautifut the bow, Iunch hook at the stern brldle Join this program where change of course gave us a steady and you wil not go far, especially If you canl sall at three to four knots In brllllant your Iunch hook fouls the m ain sunshlne. turnlng to a sunset sewer pipe golng out into the bay! evening as we made steady as llght to no winds were prom ised progress to reach our mooring at apad from Iate evening vislts and a about elght PM . The glrls Ioved itt watch being kept W Alan, aI1 A late afternoon catch of six mack- hands spent the nlght ashore (W e USA erel supplled supper. A run ashore wild be gettlng used to thls Iuxury to the Bull Bay hoted provided us Iife sNlel) From Roger and Marney Ayres in w1th a shower by the simple expedi- Jrort Lauderdale: ent of booking Bed & Breakfast, So far our cruise had been one As prom ised a couple of pics from ''No roughlng It for us you seel'' day's sailing and motor-sailing, and Florida. The first one is Marney The weather forecast gave us a one day motoring al1 day Tuesday with Skip Lichty on his Tangaroa vlrtually wlndless nlght but unfortu- was exactly the same, Iittle or no ''Last BuckH out on Blscayne Bay, nately. the next day as well, a wlnd, so we m otored In an Adriatic Florlda The Bim ini is essential in ''councll of Captalns'' (Me Sue, blue sea at six knots alI the way the troplcal sun Skip's boat is a Ros and Alany cleclded that the only back to Conway Some confused beautiful green Tangaroa IV with a Tiki sloop rig and Iashed beams

Page 25 He and his wife Jan must have sailed her a couple of thousand miles since launching her in the fall of 1996. W e've been on her a couple of times - Sun, 10 knot breeze, . - . $. ' 80OF blue skies etc. , etc. ! A1l that W. . i.i; ' ; ' èèt M j . ' boring tropical stuff! W e had some . . ' k ; .;>. ..+ great times on Biscayne Bay. a Iot ' ' .. of which is only 3f1. deeplt A real . . cat corner. .. Ed.) Anchored off EI- $ v ' liot Key the swimm ing was great, even in Iight winds we seem to jltw -.. : jr, k;zry. ,. y . . m alntain 3-5 knots boat speed, a1- ways movlng and easy to tack. h d@ x/'- = Gene Perfy is still working on his Tlki 26 - A Iaunch this year? W e are going to be another year, 1 think, on . ' ' .' ...... our stretched Tangaroa IV (37. j, . . k t Iong). 1 hope to put the Tiki 38 rig on her. which I think, after talking to you. will work a treat. The other picture shows our buddy Dave helping turn the hull. l built a gantr'y of 2''x2.'x8' and 1''x6'x8' guessed the balance point and just Iifted away wlth a chain hoist! The first hull was turned in about an hour with the hull never more than '' 1' - 2' above the carpet covered . *, 4 ' r% - bearers, should any thing go ,. ; #. d , , .s u, < .. : . . .. , ..h w . . . . x ., ,..z. . 'boing'' and drop it! , .( . $ A ' 4 # r j . f & . .& T vw *. . . ' Jf ' Hope you are aIl well at Millbrook - /. j -x . . A place of many good memories I$ i j ' +.' N . ' . . '. . w. g rg . for me and the stad of a new way pi = . a ! L* , ' >t . , ) , .. of llfe aI1 those years ago. ! .- 'i ' ,. ' >. w / . ,k .5

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.*r a.jh ' d j ked friends relatives . > , sander W hat a wonderful tool! an S'mp y as f , r - Used wlth a degree of delicacy and passing people to do It for him 1' -' With a fine grit sandpaper (120 whilst they were suitably protected. grade) you can very successfully He did this simply to prevent any sand back the Ium py bits of hard Contact at a1l with the stul. Having epoxy resln to provide a vefy flat mentioned the subject. you then sm00th surface. He wore gloves of get to hear of stories of others who course. However, after a couple of have also been affected. Some days, we b0th noticed sores similar people, even after a m inimal '. ' . . ' to the other ones on our knees am ount of contact with the .c . appearing on the underside of his hardener develop a reaction to it *-' wrlst and forearm s They were which is so extreme that they are

)q ;.'. ..; ? - * '.,. ' ' ' cedainly not palnful but were unable to go anywhere near it ' ' . . x .. ' .w.''' uncomfortable, disflgurlng and again, ever. Madin's reaction was ' k.' ' 4 1 '. -,:y,. Iasted for over a month At this fortunately mlld, cleared up after a '- -* ''% . year's meet here in the UK in few weeks and appears not to have '' ' . Plymouth, after talking to Adrlan returned. Ask for and read the '.: and others. we discovered two health and safety notes from . ' ': hin s First of the two constituent W essex on the use of epoxy resin '. :, t g , . b pads of epoxy the clear base Is Then very slowly, ask yourself the '* , merely irritant, but the hardener is question, Is failing to follow the epoxy m , toxlc It's there clearly dispdayed on recom mendations and spending Ix whlch we dldn t Ilke as the epoxy plastic bottles Secondly, the equlvalent of a few pounds or twe wanted the Interlor of the boat whI1st both epoxy and hardener are dollars on safety m ask, gloves. o be llghter As mentloned above. In liquid form , and you ve@ sensibly etc , worth the risk? W ould you we always wore gloves and oId Jeans when worklng bowever' wear gloves, there is unlikely to be Cross the road without Iooking? Or aftef a short while we found our tahny contact wlth either However ' cross an ocean without a chad? k e problems occur when sanding, Epoxy and contemporary plywoods nees eruptlng in dry sores whlch f would occaslonasly weep They or the fine dust created by this are wondedul materlals and have became sl actlon contains the toxlc hardener. Ilberated an approach to boat- lghtly Itchy and dlfflcult Dust can get anywhere. Any part of building which allows enthusiastic not to scratch Later on ' after we , d flnished the your skin m ay react to this very am ateurs to pursue their dream s. and constructlon stages. nasty ingredlent. Be warned, the W e are still im pressed and out ln the garden ' Marttn spent li t ning of Iungs is especially delighted by our efforts Only now, thwo hours carefully sandlng down vulnerable. W e were told of we treat epoxy with m uch more e cured epoxy on the outside and Inslde of the boat wlth a belt someone who never m lxed epoxy respect. More In the next issue.

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