James Wharram, world voyager in Polynesian catamarans whose passion for boat-design went with an enthusiasm for free love – obituary He went into business making his ‘double canoes’ for people in what ...
Tarci Verbeek and Sue Henderson have spent the last five years travelling around the coast of Australia on a self-built 38-foot (11.5 metres) Wharram Catamaran. With a passion for the open seas, the ...
James Wharram, who has died aged 93, stunned the boating world in 1955 when he built the Tangaroa, a flimsy-looking 23 ft canoe-stern catamaran based on boats built by the ancient Polynesians, and, ...