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Complete, clear and detailed plans to build ctamaran own Wharram Catamaran, that have often been described as a 'course in boat building'. Szle Wharram building plans are drawn for the first time builder, so anyone with a modicum of practical ability can build one of our designs.

Wharram designs are all based on decades of actual building and sailing experience of the boats, uqora you can be confident in its sailing capabilities and safety. Skip to main content Skip to search. Sign In.

Hitia Designs. The Hitia designs are the perfect beach catamarans. Their easy economical construction, stability and speed makes for affordable weekend adventure boats. The Hitia 14 can be carried on the roof of your car and fits on the sae of a larger boat. The Hitia 17 has more stowage space catamqran room for a tent on deck for longer excursions.

These boats are ideal for small adventures and coastal treks. Tiki Designs. The Tiki designs range from the Coastal Trekking Tiki 21, to catamaran building plans for sale quora comfortable ocean cruiser, the Tiki The larger Tiki designs of 30ft and over are craft capable of longer voyages and ocean crossings.

Pahi Designs. Catamaraan, they are simpler to build, using epoxy fillets instead of more difficult wood joints. Ethnic Designs. Ethnic Designs cater for those who want a "traditional" Pacific sailing craft, built using appropriate modern materials and methods.

With everything self-made these boats are lower cost to build. They range from the 16' Melanesia outrigger canoe to the 38' ocean going ship 'Tama Moana'. These designs arose after requests from Pacific Island peoples for James to design craft to overcome shortages of "traditional" building materials.

Classic Designs. The 'Classic Designs' are recognised as beautiful, safe boats - easy to build, easy to sail, sturdy and stable. Many anchorages around the world are graced by these Classic Designs, and nine are still available, from the 16ft Maui to the 51ft Tehini.

They were the first range of Wharram catamarans, designed in the s and 70s, based on the sea catamaran building plans for sale quora of James Wharram's pioneering ocean crossings. Catamafan Steering. Windvane Self Steering - detailed drawings of how to build a low-cost wind self-steering system for your Wharram catamaran, mainly out catamaran building plans for sale quora wood.

Gives different set-ups for Classic, Pahi and Tiki designs. Based on the system that sailed Pahi 63 'Spirit of Gaia' round the catamagan.

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Foremost of all, i want learn basics of building incl. In long term, its cheaper to do yourself. I give up the idea building A-cat as the first time build.

The F looks very interesting the one in my first post. Ply-sheets look less stretched there. Beams and mast in aluminium. Gradually upgrade to carbon when possible. Im UK based. I got jealous that he got a nice mast to repair. From a fellow builder who has a done a few along the way, I wouldn't go the plywood route even if the plans dictate plywood, I'm not against plywood but just from experience, once learnt, working with composites is easier and faster.

Look at the LR method, it gives great light weight boats in a very simplistic method that have a value once built. If your chosen plans dictate single skin then simply get yourself a few sheets of x mm 10mm foam and put one skin on the inside and get on with it. No you don't need carbon beams, Ali is very nearly as good and a fraction of the cost, for what your requirements are Ali tube is ideal, remember your boat is not a state of the art racing machine, more a learning development boat and will that ever so slight weight difference and tensile strength make that much difference in reality.

Its about the same weight value as 2 pints of beer. A good many F16's use Ali without a problem. There are endless small cats sitting about that you can pick up for a few hundred pounds on Ebay or Apollo Duck which will have all the expensive items like hardware, masts, the difficult bits to make like rudders and dagger boards and the sails etc, I probably have enough sails if you PM me to get an F16 equivalent which is what you should be building in my view as they are a stunningly fun boat that's not too big for 1 but big enough for Dad and a rugrat underway and if you phone Datchet Sailing Club they have about 5 or 6 14 - 16 ft cats sitting in the grass that will never ever be sailed again, make them an offer and I bet you would be surprised how good a boat you could get without even building a boat.

From experience, lower your ideals a little on the first boat, get on the water quickly and you will enjoy the whole boat building experience more. You made me reconsider my plans. I was worried that it might be hard sell the plywood cat when I won't need. Carbon builds are sought nowadays, I assume.

No most F16's are still glass and you are going to pay premium rates as they are few and far between on the sales front as even the oldest boat is still competitive. You sometimes see the UK built Stealth up for sale at low prices as they were built a bit under whelmingly but the hull shape and T foil rudders are still as good as you can get in the class, Apollo Duck has them on occasionally.

Whats your budget? I agree its better to start with something used. F16's are good boats. Maybe a used A cat is cheaper. Please evaluate all your options before committing; building a boat from scratch is a massive undertaking. Doing so from existing molds is still a big undertaking, and no offense, but I'm not reading a lot of engineering expertise in your posts, and you've mentioned this is meant to be a foray into composites for you, which I wholeheartedly agree with!

Building quality foils without quality tooling is nigh impossible these days, there are other methods but to achieve quality requires a fair bit of skill when used hot wire cut foam cores. Without a tutor, you will very likely end up spending twice has much as a good used boat, for a boat that weighs more and has an outdated hull shape. Again, reading from your posts, you want a small catamaran to go play on, you have time to build but are new to composites and beachcats in general.

Hence my advice on the A cat, buy a straightboard boat or curved board DNA, sail it for a year, Plans For Building A Dinghy 2020 then install new trunks and Z boards for foiling fun. You'll learn more about boat design and construction with some active participation in the A fleet than almost any other.. Disagree Sam, the A's even as "older boats " now fetch a premium price, far better to buy a Dart 16 or such like for just a few hundred pound, have fun crashing it up the beach and into things as invariably the beginner cat helm does, join a club where there are other Darts and learn from others.

Whilst all this is enjoyment factor is going on you will have to fettle and rebuild the Dart as invariably age dictates a bit of maintenance and that's where the learning skills really take place with composites. There is also another class in the UK which are very lightweight and the fore runner to the A, the Unicorn, almost as quick as a sea hugger, tough, typically built in ply by the thousands by home builders in the 70's and you regularly see them siting around forlornly in the boat parks.

It was my first cat and loved every minute of it until a 75mph wind tore the ground anchors out and rolled it across the boat park until only splinters were left. Which led to me getting a Stealth and then onto building Bitsa. Once you have a good understanding of whats actually needed and you have then worked out what your actual requirements in a boat are, then get building.

Different market forces in GB than in the U. Heap of older A's on the market now ripe for conversion!! Otherwise yep, you've got the Hobie 16 and Prindle 16 and maybe some Nacra 5. All depends on the OP's needs. Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted January 22, Modern A class cats look nice but often are sold as complete. Link to post Share on other sites. Doug Lord 1, Posted January 22, The story about the Stealth Aus was originally reported in catsailingnews.

Report sent by Robbie Lovig: "Just writing regarding a boat myself and Barry Marmion have been developing over the last few months. On the budget of a semi-retired builders income! The toughest thing we've found is the amount of gear you break with the loads being generated. You guys probably have plenty of people trying to show you what they are upto with foiling, the big difference with this is the lack of funding behind the project.

Will keep giving you running updates. Stealth Aus, concept I developed with my son Brad who designed the hulls. I did not have a big budget so I built the 15' 6" hulls out of ply in my carport. We had to berth the boat twice in difficult cross winds and your hull design, she performed like it was on rails.

No problems at all. As for pure sailing CATS; although we have considerable multi hull experience going back to This well proven Power Sailer Cat is for those that prefer to build in fiberglass, this boat is easy to build in fiberglass and features cheap mold construction methods as pioneered by Bruce Roberts.

Study plans are now available. Your study plans will downloaded to your computer within a couple of hours. There will be two basic layouts - personal arrangement as shown here plus an arrangement more suitable for charter use. The building technique is well proven as Bruce Roberts has used similar techniques in building radius chine mono-hulled sail boats since the early 'S. Work boat and Ferry versions are available.

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