Design
Tahiti Wayfarer
Designed by James Wharram
The Tahiti Wayfarer is a 6.40 m double canoe, 3.00 m wide, whose hull shape comes from the dugout canoes of Tahiti and Samoa. The hulls are stitch and glue plywood and epoxy. Everything else is made from natural materials: crossbeams and spars from small trees and saplings, all lashed together.
She has a self-draining floor large enough to sleep on and watertight bow and stern compartments. Draft is only 20 cm. With the spars, sails and even the deadeye blocks made by the builder, the designers point out that she needs no hardware at all and costs very little to build. The plans also show an outrigger canoe version.
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