Design
Tama Moana
Designed by James Wharram
Tama Moana, Child of the Sea, is an 11.5 m double canoe with the traditional hull shape of the islands of Tikopia and Anuta. Unlike the other Wharram ethnic designs she is strip planked over a plywood backbone and bulkheads. Overall beam is 4.55 m.
She sets a traditional crab claw rig and is steered with paddles or side rudders. Two boats to this design sailed the Lapita Voyage from the Philippines to Tikopia and Anuta in 2008 and 2009, where they were given to the islanders, who use them as their own transport.
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