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- James_Wharram abstract "James Wharram (born 15 May 1928 in Manchester, England) is a multihull pioneer and designer of catamarans. In 1953, after long studies into the records of boats of the Pacific in the libraries and museums of Britain, he designed and built the first British ocean-going double-canoe/catamaran, the TANGAROA (length 23'6" / 7.2 m), which meant the beginning of cruising and transatlantic crossing with a catamaran. He was also inspired by Eric de Bisschop’s book ‘The voyage of the Kaimiloa’.In 1955-56 James Wharram, with the help of two German women (Jutta Shultze-Rohnhof and Ruth Merseburger, who was a part of the James Wharram Design team until she died on 4 September 2013), sailed TANGAROA across the Atlantic to Trinidad. No scholars in the Western world at this time believed that the Polynesians had boats capable of directed ocean voyages. James believed otherwise and set out to prove it by doing it himself. He followed this first Atlantic crossing by building a 40’, V-eed hull double canoe, RONGO, in Trinidad in 1957/8, with Bernard Moitessier's help and sailing her across the North Atlantic in 1959 from New York to Ireland. This was the first West-to-East crossing of the Atlantic by catamaran/multihull.Since these first pioneering voyages, James, from 1973 assisted by his co-designer Hanneke Boon, has been designing Polynesian style catamarans for people to build themselves, to bring the concept of seaworthy, ocean going double canoes to the Western yachting public, meeting a lot of resistance from the British yachting establishment on the way, particularly in the early years, when people still could not accept that a ‘native’ boat could be as good or better a sailing ship than a Western type yacht, particularly when such a craft was self-built by an ‘amateur’. After more than 50 years they are now an accepted feature in the world of yachting/ocean sailing and can be seen in most harbours of the world.In 1987-92 James and his partners built a new flagship, the 63-foot catamaran SPIRIT OF GAIA, which they sailed into the Pacific and round the world, to study Indo-Pacific canoe-craft (1994–98).In 2008-9 James Wharram and Hanneke Boon conceived the Lapita Voyage expedition, sailing two double canoes based on traditional Polynesian hullform, from the Philippines to Tikopia and Anuta in the Solomon Islands. The ‘Lapita Voyage’ was a major expedition in Experimental Marine Archaeology. It was the first exploration of one possible migration route into the Central Pacific by Ethnic sailing craft. This voyage was comparable to Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage of the Kon-Tiki with which he attempted to prove the Polynesians migrated into the Pacific from South America (since proven incorrect). The two boats were donated to the remote Polynesian islands for future transport use. James and Hanneke are at present involved with designing sailing double canoes for use in remote Pacific islands to help with the increasing transport problems.James Wharram is considered the ‘father’ of multihulls in many countries, and has been referred to as a ‘Living legend’.".
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