Building your own boat with Wharram Designs is the easiest and most cost effective way to fulfil your sailing dreams. Wharram Self-build boat plans start from only 120. Wharram designs are based on years of practical, hands-on experience of building and ocean sailing catamarans. They are renowned for their seaworthiness, stability and safe simplicity.
Designs from 14' - 63' are available for self-building in ply/epoxy with very detailed, easy to follow Plans often described as 'a course in boatbuilding'. Study our Self Build Boats to familiarise yourself with our range of designs and their unique qualities. Read the Wharram Design Book which reviews each design in detail and offers a detailed introduction to the world of self-build catamarans.
Designs from 14' - 63' are available for self-building in ply/epoxy with very detailed, easy to follow Plans often described as 'a course in boatbuilding'. Study our Self Build Boats to familiarise yourself with our range of designs and their unique qualities. Read the Wharram Design Book which reviews each design in detail and offers a detailed introduction to the world of self-build catamarans.
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James Wharram Designs are designers of unique double-canoe style sailing catamarans inspired by the canoe craft of the Pacific. They have their headquarters on the shore of Restronguet creek in Devoran, Cornwall. James Wharram is the pioneer of offshore multihulls, making his first Atlantic crossing by catamaran in 1956 and the first ever North Atlantic West-to-East crossing by multihull in 1959.
Complete, clear and detailed plans to build your own Wharram Catamaran, that have often been described as a 'course in boat building'. All Wharram building plans are drawn for the first time builder, so anyone with a modicum of practical ability can build one of our designs. Wharram designs are all based on decades of actual building and sailing experience of the boats.
Familiarise yourself with our range of designs and their unique qualities. Order one or more sets of our Study Plans and immerse yourself into the boat builder's mindset; evaluate the costs; the amount of time required to build your boat; where you will build it and where you will eventually launch it.
Most of you know us as the producers of quality Polynesian Catamaran designs for the self-builder. We are still very much developing and improving our designs for those who want to self-build their own boat. Over the years however, we have had numerous requests for James Wharram Designs to branch out into producing boats for those of you who want to buy a quality finished boat from a professional builder, rather than build one yourself.
Firstly, read the Wharram Design Book. Having looked at all the Wharram designs, you may immediately have identified with one of them as the boat for you. But it is possible you are more confused than before you started looking! To help you, we have made a table of the basic requirements one has to consider when choosing a boat.
