James Wharram

So it was a really big party, and, and there's still people around that actually were there and, uh, at the launching.

So the original plan was to go to a big Wharram meeting in Brittany.

That was the main purpose of the visit, but then I thought, "Well, if I'm gonna sail as far as Brittany, I might as well do that last hundred miles and get back to Cornwall as well." [laughs]

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And, uh, and so she was just nicely moored there, and then I arranged a, a special weekend open day so people could come and visit the boat.

And we made a nice walkway across, and, uh-

Well, good because as you said, you, the whole Wharram catamaran thing, not just Spirit of Gaia-

Yeah

Whoa.

So Wharrams were easy because they had a V-shaped hole.

So I made a Wharram.

James Wharram is a designer of multi-holes from Europe, but he's interested in the Polynesian canoe because of lashings and some of these types of fundamental technologies related to Pacific Island canoes.