The sea peopkem ' ' '' k; % t . x J w . w % . a . ' 'u ' e == y. v . g: > à,' . hoa, s< & <Qké .)w. j . .m-..w - x r:. ,?r' . j . - .-. ê ; < M %- x. - ., . + .. x .. - . ,. c . k ! r. u ... ....... .' =--w > %' %.b . + $ - > >4 . ' - i @ v . '. &. Yu %- . ,. g . #> > < - - - . ,4, > e4. 'x . > @ : *FT# '. y. ( -. - ' n 7 . , * uv : . x ? . H w . ,.. ' X'.... l / # *'1 * k * - ' . .. .. - - . r . .v . -- . x- 4r . j .r q ., .p .jrk . x. A ... % ' . .. 'h'M . .. > # t %. , vujj w.# y. ' .1 R'. v ' v . .... h r. q ) .î ' ' x . a., .X . , -w.. ..a .rr ' . A . C at C orner - SW Ireland . Pahi 42 build adicles * H itia 17 engine m ounting * Tiki 21 m odified * R iver C ruising - C anadian style! * R uth's D iary - The Festival No 28 Janual 1996 ' < The Sea People * w.. vw Magazine of the . Polynesian Catam aran S C O T T B R O F # Association B R 0 K E R A G E S E R V I C E S # Fancy building a Tiki 38 or Pahi 42? @ PCA 1996 Need to sell your Classic first? I have Intemational Customers Iooking for Large W harram Cats. Contents ' st. ' '-p . .. r . k' - ' r , Jim 's Colum n l .. % ij . ' '. * Ruth's Diary Paë 3 4 Hitia 1F - Single Handlng 7 ! ' + Hitia 17 - Novel engine set-up 9 Pahi 31 bulld O ueensland 40 .4 1 q, k Tiki 26 sailing - ''Ean'' 51 1 . )k k Pahi 42 *- build 12 ctxa,. C . Tiki 26 cruising - f'Meira'' 16 Tiki 21 m ods ( . w r. 18 /1 y , s/ ; l f # t , : aA 't ' i R &k. i ï L; : j $K# fé i t i $ ' .'. ' Pahi 42 pod - ''Bon Bini'' 49 ... sy The savage Fraser Triangle 2Q Trans-Atlantic GRP Tiki 26 Cat Corner - SW Ireland - Part 4 22 'Sharing the Challenge' now for sale. Tlki 21 launth - No- ay 25 NEW S from Seapeople 26 Builders: Boat cannot be completed due to unforeseen circumstances? Don't allow it to sit deteriorating when I have custom ers wh0 would Iike to buy a 'project'. Editorial team : Adrian, Steve, Scott Southdown Marina Millbrook, Torpoint Editorial address: Front cover photo Cornwall PLIO 1HG PCA Southdow n Marina Tiki 26 ''Dream Time' tele/fax +44 (0) 1752 823824 M illbrook, Torpoint in Spain e-maiI100573.3223@Compuse>e.Com Cornwall PL/: 1HG Page 2 JIM 'S C O LU M N 'W rite a 'Jim's Column'' said the editor Or#Ou can sail a PAHI 63 across the Catam aran. Hundreds of them have to me. Now 1 am beginning to realise, oceans. There is no winner or Ioser in been built and hundreds of voyages why the editors of the 'Sea People' are com paring the experiences, no have been m ade. Voyages around the always com plaining that not sufficient hierarchical value system Our modern coasts, in local seas and across the people, once they have built their society runs on the concept of w inners great oceans W e are a new ''tribe'' of boats, write about sailing them and Iosers Our sailing does not. sea-loving seafarers. O ur collective voyages over the Iast 20 years equal During the building of 'The Boat', there So we sailaway,and as we settle down any of the historical m igration voyages is a desire to com m unicate with other to the natural rhythm of the sea, feel of the ancient Polynesians. people, sharing building hints and ourselves changing within, we begin to eyperiences, but once the boat is feel m ore remote and inadiculate. It But because, as has been pointed out to finished, it is as if one moves into becom es more difficult to explain to m e by the editor and the 'Sea People' another world - the world of sailing others the subtleties of the feel of comm ittee, 'we'' do not write about our Sailing, not racing sai I i ng sailing experiences, m uch of our work experience is overlooked or Iost. If we in the P.C A were a group of l shocked a yacht m agazine editor racing enthusiasts, we would be more recently, who asked m e about our trans I frequently get rem arks from outside than pleased to give a wave by wave Atlantic and Pacific voyages, when I about 'The W harram CuIt''!!, Now, to account of our sailing, describing, how said: ''W eII, we just loaded up the GAIA have a cult, you have to have a Ieader, we won - or nearly won - or hope to w in with food and drinks, pointed her in the that the cult looks up to and follows. If I neyt time. Racing has a clear, objective right direction, and off she went.'' am the leader of the cult, som ething is purpose - to win. wrong. Still, I/we have to do better than this At ''Sailing'' is not objective. You can sail a the moment, l am writing a book about O n arrival in Auckland. New Zealand, HITIA 17 around the FaI estuary, or sail us, 'The Fair Haired Children of this year, l gave a Iecture I had to be in places Iike the Chesapeake Bay in Tangaroa'' very careful of what I said, for in the the U S.A , or in the Bay of Islands in Do you know, that since 1976 about audience. there was Rory McDougal, New Zealand and many sim ilar places 5,000 of us have obtained the plans to who had sailed mostly single handed his in the world build a Polynesian Double Canoe/ TIKI 21 from Britain to New Zealand Page 3 There were Tim and Heather W helan, of dedicated no-nonsense sailors As with a group from any of the world- who, w ith their fam ily had sailed a such to give thanks for our part in it wide chapters of sailing Polynesian NARAI M K IV to New Zealand There , we have to help others which means Catam aran builders. In fact, the New was the fam ily of the ORO ''KATE writing about our experiences Zealand P.C A builders will be helping COO LEY'', who also had sailed from in the building of a pure Polynesian Britain to New Zealand. ln the Pacific tslands, notably Tahiti design, i,e with Crab claw saits, no (see Ruth's adicle) this year, I found rudders etc. called the 'SAMOA'' which Don Brazier of New Zealand, our host an astonishing lack of understanding we have designed w ho is now Iooking after GAIA in front on how Polynesian Double Canoes of his house, next to his NARAI M K . IV sailed. Am ongst the Doubse Canoe As its name im plies, it is based on the 'KATIPO ' and who w ith his fam ily had replicas from Hawaii Tahiti, Cook Samoan hull form and being built for a encountered a 70 knot gaîe on a Islands and New Zealand, there Sam oan adist Fatu Feu'u W hen voyage from New Zealand to Tonga. seem ed to be an actual fear of sailing finished, it will be used for research Jam es Hayward had sailed a them . Into pure Polynesian Double Canoes, CAPTAfN CO OK from the Gulf States ending with a no towboat voyage from to New Zealand and there were m any A$l seven of the wood/psy/ epoxy/ New Zeaiand to Samoa. others synthetic rope 'replicas'' of Polynesian craft were at aII times at sea shadowed It is a wonderful closing of the circle. lt is true. that I had the biggest by a personal. heavily m otorised O ur Iives have been enriched with the W harram design, but the com m ent to escort yacht W hen conditions becam e a n c i e nt P o I y n e s i a n D o u b I e C a n o e that observation wasL ''W elI, Jim as , difficult, Iike w indward work etc . the concept, and now with our knowledge, you get older, your 'vigour' declines, so escort craft took the Polynesian craft in we can revive the pure ancient you have a get a bigger boat to tow! ! Po l yn es i a n D o u b I e C a n o e its el f . com pensatell'' Their rigging w ork and sailing The only problem is that our editor No. we are not a cult in the accepted concepts were abysm al, yet could insists we keep writing about it sense of the word but we are a body have been solved in a couple of days ' j >( 't ... - . .. < < ' - ' k ' - - . ( . é.( é . ' i . i7 i i i i i g i i'i i i ii.i i.i ë i i:i.i (2(ëj'( . ' 2 i 2 f (.' ë ( ( '. ' '' : : : E : é :Er ge ( r rrrrry q jqy: g . ( ::::(ëë: . @: : E ' com e 7 : iR q) :0: ;:;:(: : :y : :y (ljj . he invited us to be an ''Escort the three Hawailan canoes and the . :j. q. ,.i : . l 7, . : . j : . : . E: . : ( . ( j : ë. j ( . (. :jyg rr rq yoat', to m ake us pad of the group twc cook lsland ones did sai! some of Ruth % ( : E ( E : (( :: : ::E ë@ Ejq: : q( 'rhis helped financially with the the way from Hawail and Rarotonga bond , harbour dues etc , but what and wlll be salling back to Hawall 8 4 95 - On board Splrit of Gaia between were we escodlngg Also the New Zealand one ,whlch had Tahiti and the Cook Islands OOt been ready In tim e and whlch was T h a t wa s a n ot h e r d i s a p p o i nt m e nt s h I p ped to Ta h It i , d I d s o m e s a ! l i n g 'W hat was the Tahiti m eeting like7'' 7'bo E'SCOC boats were not there to W eI I lt wa s noth ing Ii ke l/we had sall close to the canoes in case To sall alongslde them at sea was .