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The sea People Scott Brow n's Magazine of the ' ' . W orld-wl*de Polynesian . ' . * catamaran . harram ASSOCiZ IOZ ê Brokerage Carbeile M ill Oc PCA 1999 Torpoint cornwall PLII 2NW Contents Tel: +44 (0) 1752 812777 Fax: +44 (O) 1752 812888 T e Kscott.Brown@ multihulls.uk. angaroa - Skipjack 3 Hitia 17 :1,750 Melanesia '.- lbiza 6 Hjna specialtproject) E1,750 Tiki 31 Morgenwind 8 Hinemoa E3.500 yi.(y'L. '?Aj; -zzj. <;j% vl-rane, Greece E3.500 k.ljjjy, Narai IV - Havai ki 1 0 . Tiki 2 1 (GRP) :4 ,000 C.# f 1 .,2g . .. -u . , t . ' Tane E4,600 ' Tiki 38 - Australia 1 1 Tiki 21 , Germany :5,300 Pahi 42 - Mahuini 12 Tangaroa Mk1 E5.950 Tiki 21 (GRP) E6.250 Pahi 63 - Moana Pahi 14 pahi 26 c. E5 000 Cat Corner Tiki 26 (GRP) E9,750 -- Podugal 1 8 T'iki 26 (monocoque) f7.500 1 999 Eclipse Meet 19 Tiki 26 (GRP) E10.000 Tiki 26 *2 (GRP) E10.500 Hinemoa - Ow1 20 Tane E12,000 Building in Tasmania 22 Tangaroa Mk1 DFL50.000 Tiki 28, France :18.500 French Summer Meet 23 pahi 42 Portugal E29,000 Oro E34.000 SW UK Meet Repod 24 Pahi 42, Turkey :38,000 Scottish Meet Report 26 Pahi 42 :39,500 Pahi 42. N1 :44,000 Solent Meet Repod 27 Narai Mk4 so ()00 tjs . US $ , Book Review 27 Yard Facilities Editorial Team : Steve & Scott Space to build, fit out. store & launch. Assisted By: Sandy Hard standing, suit trailer sailors' good security, good com pany! Editorial Address: Front cover Photo. w harram Cat expertise close at hand! PCA proud owners - Ne. il Sandidge + @ Carbeile Mill & Ake Eckefwall on the beach Sheltered. tidal moorings Torpoint with Ake's 38. & pontoon bedhs. cornwall PLII 2NW e-mail [email protected] * * * < - @ @ # * * web : www.m ultihulls.uk.com /pca - . e . * @ * @ * : . .' Page 2 an ar a '-' I JaC Clive Thomas tually com plete shelter from the on survey, built to an exceptionally elements and allows one to do the high standard & carefully main- chad work, while under passage, tained! seated along side the steering Skipjack is a Tangeroa Mk IV ex- wheel. Anyone who would like to have tended to 36:, built from Brunzel a Iook for any inspiration or curios- marine ply on Colombian pine string- The water and diesel tanks are ity is welcome to do so. ers and framing, sheathed in glass integrally built to the port and star- and epoxy. board side of the mast, (allowing The Prelude. Purchase and gravity feed of the water to the gal- cruise Home. The accommodation is increased by ley) while the 221-1p diesel engine building the decks to the level of the is situated aft of the mast in a For the past 10 years I have gunwales & extending the coachroof sound proofed engine box driving been working towards the , dream forward. This enables the headroom a three bladed propeller on a re- of setting off for a period of time to be increased, and the Ievel of the tractable sonic drive unit. towards the sun always im agining bunks to be raised with the resultant I would be on a, m onohull yacht increase in width of the berths. W hen standing and steering, Having finassy set the date. the bridge deck has a cut out (approximately), circumstances The pod hull, containing the gal- which allows one to stand with the have chpnged , m ainly due to the Iey, has -/* headroom & Ioads of wind in one's face while the body is arrival of two additional crew mem- storage while the starboard hull sole sheltered and, as one who suffers bers aged 6 and 4. During the year has been raised relatively about 18 from cold extremities' this has prior to our departure, the benefits inches so that, when seated along proved to be m ost useful. of multihull Vs monohull slowly be- the fold down table, one has a view gan to favour the form er. 1 had of the outside. and there is plenty of All in all , while I do not confess never sailed a catam aran before. deep storage under the sole. to be an exped on these matters, but had always fancied the phi- Skipjack is full of good practical Iosophy & design of a W harram. A very useful modification has ideas, and al1 credit to Ted Jansen, been the building of a pIy pilot the previous owner and builder I decided to put my boat up for house / bridge deck which gives vir- and, as Steve Turner comm ented sale alm ost as an experiment , and ! . / i /' x.. ..w.-. o. F . x .u - . ' *;. w . jo., . ,. ,. K X we' ' * Page 3 Page 4 ' and we toasted our wlse decislon 424 ..V*. '-4 *R ' ' making & good fodune. W e awoke to S.S.W . gales and l thought my delivery cruise hom e ' I was over, but after exploring the de- lights of Newhaven nightlife, we . v % . woke to a forecast of S.E. -E. - N .E. 5 - 7. So with heavy heads. we set off into a lum py sea, on the last 14û 0+ J ' m iles or so, on what turned out to be * . k - t :'% $ the most enjoyable sail of my Iife. /' .$ Mainly broad reaching in 6 - 7 / , winds, surhng at speed for what / $$ N. ! # ,' ''=.. yh r . seemed Iike for ever (but probably . for about 10 sec's), moonlight, heav- ing seas, passing Portland Bill faster ' than I would ever have thought pos- . ..w . sible. arrlving at Exm outh about 18 hours Iater which included a slightly ' .. .; = vtex yvysjgsj , baffling spell of poor progress tide ' bound past the Isle of W hite. )(. ; . i L; .'. My only regret is that I waited so .k ' '' zt-: . long to tr'y out a W harram Catama- . ran, but what a sail to introduce one .. ) ù; ïrh pk. .; )) yt.k - . s to a new boat! 'j. .ak ..Dy' ktkgz j4,::e4(4 k ). t hjtj .n .: .xt>. ,. ;. m > '* 'kA . (.' ' , .tk,.(. .0... jk . :,1t . t v y x.. J . ., rzr e sj . x gxu y. w x * ' .e l Editors note from Steve; . = rsv re '' W = . ' '>W W ' Shortly afler Clive brought ''Sklpjack' to her new home ( received a rafher plaintive Jtl#er from her builder Ted Jansen and his wife Madeleine, with whom l stayed when I surveyed the boat. was most shocked when the first on the forecast. There they were Madeleine wrote' ''Although it ls not person to see her put in a reason- forecasting the S.W .Iy turning to S. yet the sailing season we are aI- able offer and within two weeks the E b .ly so off we went. By early evenlng ready missing our Skipjackl'' They oat was gone. To cut a Iong story we were m o wrer?t on to ask, ''Do you know any short, within another two weeks l ving nicely down chan- neI with a following strengthening cat owners who have the same was the owner of a Tangaroa Mk IV breeze & I was becoming increas- doubts we always had when it came and about to set off from Stellen- i to letting our catamaran to unknown dam . Holland towards Devon in my bnilgitly impressed by the speed & sta- fi y of the boat. sailors? rst sail on a catamaran with one W e are a Dutch couple aged fifty other crew and a rather iffy forecast. By m idnight, the wind had increased with two daughters, a1l experienced to a F7 and we had dowsed the cat sailors. W e sailed our Tangaroa At about 2pm Monday 29/9/98 main, Still doing 8 -9 knots under jib for 1 0 years around Holland, Den- we set off into a N.W ,3 which died only when the forecast upgraded to m ark and Germany. As we have out about dusk, to leave us m otoring down the Dutch coast on an increas- imm inent gale force winds. W e de- sold our beloved cat, we would Iike cided that a gale on a unknown to hire a cat to sail in the Mediterra- ingly glassy sea, By the next m orn- '' boat, which neither of us was par- nean for three weeks next summer. ing still motoring we were off ticularly fam iliar with, was not desir- Dunkerque and as the morning pro- able, and dlveded to Newhaven Please contact them if you are inter- gressed, with S.E. forecasts of 4 in- , conveniently situated 1 5 m iles to the ested. Their address is: De Logger creasing to 6, we had S.W .ly. I was north, where we duly arrived & tied 12, 1931 Egm ond aan Zee, Holland. a bit concerned that the Iow of up a couple of hours Iater. As we 978m b lurking in our path had You can Phone Ted and Madeleine shifted nodh, so we called in to Bou- cracked open a bottle of red wine, on + 3 1 - 725062945 or Em ail: sitting in the cunningly designed madeleine@ crossmartcom logne for fuel and a further update bridge deck, the heavens opened Page 5 M elanes-la - in Ibiza by Jan Leende dz In my adicle on im provem ents on Hitia 17 in Sea People 36, I found two numbers (on page 7 and 9) that made my wife Elke and me Iaugh, and we giggled when trying to imagine our Hitia 1 7 with g.i fore stays, The other misprint was the & ''Y' .** <'' .* Mvo' * -' Beaufod 1 1 when the shroud Iash- ing almost came off.