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Wharram was born in Manchester, England.In 1953, after long studies into the records of boats of the Pacific in the libraries and museums of Britain, and inspired by Eric de Bisschop's book The voyage of the Kaimiloa, [1] he designed and built the first British ocean-going double-canoe-catamaran, the Tangaroa (length 23 feet 6 inches (7.16 m)) and in 1955–56 sailed with Jutta Schultze ...
Amatasi 27 is a James Wharram designed fishing catamaran. [1] It is inspired by the traditional amatasi vessels of Samoa , and has been described as a "pioneering environmentally friendly fishing boat".
Rongo was a 40 ft (12 m) ketch rigged catamaran built in 1958 in Trinidad by James Wharram and sailed by him and his two German women companions, Jutta Schultze Rohnhoff and Ruth Merseburger, from Trinidad to Ireland, via New York, arriving end of August 1959. [1] Rongo was the first catamaran to sail from West to East across the North Atlantic.
Preparations for the Kon Tiki expedition (c. 1947), peruvian newsreel showing the raft at the Port of Callao (in Spanish).. The main body of the float was composed of nine balsa tree trunks up to 14 m (45 ft) long, 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter, lashed together with 30 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) hemp ropes.
In 2006, Tiki was named to CMS Report's Top 30 Web Applications. [16] In 2008, Tiki was named to EContent magazine's Top 100 [17] In 2009, Tiki adopted a six-month release cycle and announced the selection of a Long Term Support (LTS) version and the Tiki Software Community Association was formed as the legal steward for Tiki. [18]
The original tiki bars flourished for about 30 years, and then fell out of vogue. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] In the 1990s, the tiki culture was revived by a new generation of fans and new tiki bars were founded worldwide that often looked to Trader Vic's and Don the Beachcomber for inspiration.
About 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village is the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy. Wharram railway station on the Malton and Driffield Railway served the village from 1853 to 1950. [5] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Raisthorpe and Burdale and Wharram Percy to form Wharram. [6] In 1931 the parish had a ...
Wharram Percy. Wharram is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.It lies on the Yorkshire Wolds, 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Malton.The principal settlement is the village of Wharram-le-Street, and the parish also includes the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy and the deserted medieval villages (now hamlets) of Raisthorpe [1] and Burdale, [2] some 3 miles (5 km) south of Wharram ...