.)t)-'1 . --- -.- - - .. - . - . - . - . - . .. 7 !) The Sea People . ) SA ILO R M A N .N - .w .> Y ' N - Y 'e .' W M M ' *.K * '% N % > W * . .. W O W. .w*XW. e ' . ' . .v . '- =W < = = -+ ''.ev' - -'- .,- w .o v - w N . .q . N, .. '- <-- x'w- - 'w Na 'eNv > . ' =-'.w- <<N . w.w - LX q = Yx. ..--.. ...-.-.- -'-'-- .... ''.........-. .-.... ....................... N- N . - A M o < W # .. > .''< '' - - - ' '2 . '-- - - - .x @ -- x - *- x . w x >. u ..- w xx . -.w .. - ' ' W ...w.... z . - a .'> . - - W . .. , - A 'e - W . - .e'M' - . - waza a r... v . w -... .-. .-. - '... >- - . W ''SEA PEOPLE ' Do you know ae have the sam e word in Japan?W e say UM IN -TYU. UM IN m eans sea and W U m eans people. The w ord is only used in the m ost Soutern part of Japan, OKINA W A , w hich had been an independant country called R YUK YLI until conquered by Japan in 1609. I want to tell you som e m ore about the UM IN-TYU. They say ''I don't use a bigger boat than this one because it is natural for m e, a single person. His boat is 5m Iong and 0.8m . He uses this boat even to catch fish bigger than him self. The UM IN -TYIJ live a very long life, 80- 100 ycars! They Iive in a natural way Iike other native A m ericans or A boriginals, a very pca/e/t// .life. NAKA M URA SHIGE FUM I & tJ 1 t-,: D ecem ber 1991 Gross an X ean in One.... many Catamarans, severe gales fof days at a time. particularly those with high bridge-decks , However, There is a time , kalying #th tM K und horribly when going to windward....M wind and sea state, when it is IM G to steer the O t O fore the gale. This ap/e G signer's Comment'. m ually to monohulls. Some solid bridge-deck catamarans #.g. pyund going to windward. However, some With reference to W harram Catamarans, don't, but also some monohulls m und Anne Hammick writes: terrib: going to windward, m ually, xme Ten years ago' every tro/cal hareur don't. e'v'med to sK d at least - of tle œ er the Iast year. anyone who reads the unmistakable r- igns of James Wharram, world yacht magazines will note that Anne Hammick writes: tsorly Ms Hammick, there are many more W harram œ signs are M ing favourably going to windward is ''not a K int of sailing now), unashame ly base on Po#r- ian reviewe - almœt monthly (ie 13 reviews in on which multihuls generaly excel. ' originals and consisting of Iittle mGe than British, American, French, and Australian two reanco attached by stout crœ sbars. In magazines), N signer's Comment: theory. these home-built craftusually Some multihuls sail pxrly to windward. but plywoe and often spadan, lovzing an For example. 'Yachts and Yachting', mid- then r,o do some monohuls. Other excellent stepping stone to cbeap cruising. Septeme r 91 . wrote referring to a TIKI 26 mulithuls sail as wel, or even O tter, to Many made Iong passages, relative# few (on the market for 7 years): respite their windward than monohulls, came to grief at xa (though they dd sa m fre uent home made apm arance these For example, when I anxiously aske a to drag their anchors and Iand up ()rl the small T1K1s are Iovely, graceful Ix king yacht magazine tester of the TIKI 36 Y ach rather oftenl.M K'mts. and their owners do the most reGently, while we were O ating against a extraordinary things with them having got force 5-6 in a very choppy sea. what he N signers Comment: afloat at rœ k trttom prices.' thought ae ut the D rformance of the TIKI do remem* r. folks, dont ance your 36, he carefully answered: 'W ell, I know shallow draft tx close to the O ach, 'Yachts and Yachting' then went on to print that the X and Y monohull designs (- 11 padicularly when Ms Hammick is around! in full Jim's Column of the Iast 'Sea People' known names), I have tested under these Remem- r, you will hit it when dragging - 'For those who dream of getting away conditions. would i:e Ming over on their ears rm ner than the deep koel yacht. which has from it aIl in Polynesian style.' and well reefed down, but not getting very to anchor fudher out. far.' Unfodunately, for the general public, a large M ne Hammick ends: ryart of the favourable yacht magazines' Anne Hammick writes: 'W harram cats are thest suite to tM young writings of our designs is base partly on 'The much lighter displacement of tbe and even then are something of an am uife the fact that over the Iast three years, we multihull also makes her sensitive to extra taste.' have txxen responsible for setting up of the weight.' Well, the lady did e in by Oing > < professional building firm W HARRAM BUILT ae ut their prejudice against multihulls, bul and pre uced with its 3 groups (ANDY œ signers Comment: I did suslxYt the quality of informate in the SMITH, DEVORAN: STEVE TURNER, 30%-50% of the displacement of a rest of the hx k, after reading ae ut the PLYMOUTH: G MULLER & P YOUNG, monohull is the nK essal'y ballast to <op it subject I am well informed. as sl:e K ryo GERMANY) 25 catamarans. turning over. This increases the monohulls' blind to the observed facY. FortunateM, off displacement relative to that of an the subject of multihuls. there is in fact Now this num* r of professionally built m uivalent Iength catamaran. much gcxxl general advice in the rret of the Wharrams and ryeople sailing them is but a So the greater initial displacement of the A k tiny fraction of the num* r of v ple who, monohull compared with a multihull of Prejudices are a psycholK ical problem. We over the years. have built and sailed similar length has no reletionship to its aI have them', so we should not t)e tx W harram self-built ceatamarans, ability to carry load. Some cruising critical of other re ple's prejudices. catamarans are not highly sensitive to Education can often overcome prejudice. M the overall designer, I can write definitely Ioading, some are, and, m ualy, some The aims of the ''Sea People* has always that the principle and style of the monohulls are sensitive to Ioading, others been to encourage and supm rt % lf- professionally built ivmts are in Iine with are not, builders to build well. So keep up courage self- built huts. The professional finish is when the building takes so 10rx./ alk to very high, which attracts and pleases yacht Another of Anne Hammick's generalizations become real sea re ple, sailing the Ha in magazine observers, but l know from my i tIik '. safety. own observations and from photx raphs so, the most enthusiastic multihull sent to us. that many of the self-built Y ats sailors agree that in bad conditions the *at bt have an m ually high finish. So again. here cannot simply be dogged down and Ieft to 'h is prx f of the prejudice against self-built get on with it as one would in a heavy ï p h O ats. On examination this is more an displacom ent mOnO. .1 attitude of the W estern Iife style philosophy than the actual N rformance of the self built X SiSRPrS COmmORt: ' 7 O ats. Relating to W harram catamarans, I on this subject she is totaly s- -= x --Q.:.I.m-'.-. ' - - ' A recent example of this prejudice is shown Wrong. J Ohn Bellenger on his - Qw-w -uux. N.r- X --.. w-==.wO - xc:.-. '&-. in a hx)k sent to the PCA for review, 'pvxss' has - en roaming x-o... ''- . tohRo xx '>w o'' x's-wvN wev' .XY vkxvr-.-- --z---<-'-xu = 'Ocean Cruising on a Budget' by Anne e world's x ean for 1 5 years ',- - n . +..-.c- -<-.-. and A n 'dœged down' in heavy C % * >= W W X''- Hammick (ADLARD COLES). Naturally , I '% - 'Z----wr'-a turned first to her comments on multihulls, gales. In 1 955, I/we in our Ntz' ... - 23 f ..-...rr pages 1 8-20. t TANGAROA 'dogged down'' -'- > * - in a Bay of Biscay gale. c-- --,- -x. Anne Hammick tegins her comments on ln 1 979, Ruth W harram, who Q. -. 'w<x:.-.'.< multihulls with: has made seven Atlantic crossings, crossed N-...- 'Like many monohull M ilors l admit to being the Atlanlic a*ard Tom Jone's 28 ft. TANE 'xx.'cx -'Q--. prejudiced against multihulls for offshore NUI. He/they dogged down in force 9 gales. Running D fore heavy seas - TIKI M t)y sailing. I neither have nor would wish to Wharrams have in fact storm drifted in Wharram œ s/gns 2 The Sea People/sailorman No /6 December /:.9/ The S ea P eop le The M agc ine of the Polynesian Catam aram Association 6A 1 LO R M A H contents Editor's Note Cean rul. sl. ng 4 Oeledn Mt otot hther. lcfubp-boraWre, ALL, S W ELL THAT END ' S W ELL To fe h h*r v r e * S n@; ...OR SO THEY SAY s A first Atla ut e an s,. got ther. ntic crossing by George Lundgard r,. cupboa- .as u - . -. y)cA unds aro jow. The cœ t of printing has oastaI ruising 7 ZanCdrO ZxSWsta gbeY 5ra0t%es OhVaOvr et 6gOo nXe stu 0p 0a sY O.Zr1S1, ALONGSIDE THE GRIU LY BEARS AND PINK SALMON Our reserves are now Iow and we have to reduce costs to the minimum.