Wharram Tiki 38' - 'Jumpa Lagi' - Sailing in the Philippines April 2015

And ?? U r in love with yourself Norm !!

I wish you'd used the sound of the boat sailing and not a soundtrack of waves breaking on the seashore. Sounds ridiculous.

I am buying my study plans for the tiki 38 so I can start pricing out materials for the build!!! :)

To get a feel for our Tiki38 going to windward, check out our latest sailing video: Linda sailing to windward in Palau Oct 2015

She was actually built in Brunei, although I think Andy Smith does build beautiful boats. I'm really loving the Tiki38, can't believe how ell she sails, how much room we have, and how comfortable she is at sea. The Amatasi looks like a great boat, happy sailing ;-)

Do Wharram's sail well? Nick, a Wharram built to the design specs, and rigged with good sails, will sail really well. Especially if it's rigged with his 'soft-wingsails'. I've sailed everything from (retired) 12m America's Cup boats to Maxi's including a couple of years on a Swan 57. Our Wharram sails at 7-8knots up to 45-50degrees apparent, and will sail as high as 40degrees apparent, although she slows to around 6knots. As long as there's 10knots+ of wind, our Tiki38 goes everywhere at 7-8knots, if the wind pipes a bit, it's 8-10knots. She's only got a 32' waterline, and it's not an extreme racing boat, so to me, she's a really good, fast, cruising yacht. Note, it's most important a catamaran stays light, too many Wharrams were over-built and thus became too heavy.

Do these wharrams sail well? I really want to build a 36-38 ft, but everyone on the forums just bashes on them

Do these wharrams sail well? I really want to build a 36-38 ft, but everyone on the forums just bashes on them

Build by Andy Smith? Where are you located? I had for years a Tiki in Thailand and will start building a Amatasi in the Philippines.

For the observant sailors, as you can see there's no reefs in the first part of the video, we pulled the reefs in when the wind piped to 15knots