I'm starting to like Dominic Tarr's videos more as he progresses. His ability to repair a simple boat and keep sailing makes me envious against my typical fibreglass sloop. These videos are starting to make me want to build a Warram.
To build a Wharram you need a big beard, strange personal habits of some sort and an absolute determination to avoid doing things normally at all costs. One of my good friends has a 52ft Tehini, he is just strange enough to be accepted by other Wharram owners. But his wife does not go topless which is a problem. She is good at fibreglassing though.
Wharram building should be done only be those who don't want to go to windward, especially after they have put a strange looking (sometimes bamboo) cockpit cover on, so they don't get sun stroke or rained on every time they want to change hulls.
Interesting boats but such a poor use of space and ergonomics. And resale - I mean what is that?
Seems to be true from my limited experience with them. They aren't easy on the eye either.
Their owners ability to avoid slipways, chandleries, be run on the cheap, easily repaired in isolated and developing countries appeals to part of me. It reminds me what little is actually required to get out and about up and down the coast.
Looks like he started with a conventional catamaran hull, and is just building a Wharram style rig by trial and error. He can have my bamboo that I am trying to get rid of!
The wharrams dont have to look bodgey and be cramped. There was a particularly nice one here for awhile, swept back schooner rig ( not bamboo) & had a lunig inspired name
