The Daily Telegraph

James Wharram, world voyager in Polynesian catamarans whose passion for boat-design went with an enthusiasm for free love – obituary

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 ...
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Five years living on a boat: Much like life anywhere else 'only wobblier'

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 ...
openDemocracy

Manchester's imaginary Polynesian

Pahi 63, Eigenbau-Katamaran, James Wharram Design. The "People of the Sea" (published by Lodestar books) is the story of an extraordinary and emblematic life in post-war Britain. The best ...
Daily Mail

A menage a trois on the high seas! Two naked German deckhands and five women on the go - no wonder British adventurer James Wharram was infamous for so much more than his ...

Boatbuilder, sailor, adventurer and designer James Wharram was a man of multifarious interests who approached life very differently from the rest of us. He was obsessed with Polynesian fishing boats.