Our Wharram Tiki 30: A Personal Tour of our Seafaring Dreams! [EP.2]

[@TheAustinfuller]

Beautiful boat beautiful people, thank you.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you so much 🫶🫶🫶

[@daner.d]

doggo lands on face, turns, NAILED IT!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

I know 😂 had to keep it in there

[@StreetTruckinTitan]

lmao

[@russellesimonetta9071]

I think this is the only detailed tour of a Tiki 30! Look cozy but liveable.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Exactly, we are still able to sleep side by side as long as neither of us gain weight 😅

[@jackblah5842]

Yes very much appreciate, I need ideas for mine

[@glenndavis479]

Wow this is going to be great to watch , a Tiki Gaffer...love it.

[@karls6802]

I agree with other's this is one of the best tours of a TiKi 30 I've seen in decades of videos. What a beautiful paint job, one of my all-time favorites! Why people are so afraid of color I’ll never know, especially Americans. It appears the two of you have a good attitude for approaching this kind of life style, stay flexible in mind and body, and have a great time on your travels on your beautiful Zig Zag. My the winds be at your back.

[@svwindhorse]

I love your boat. Fantastic buildouts and decorations. Looks like you did a great job with the build. Enjoy sailing!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks so much we are thoroughly enjoying!🌊🤍

[@funkygrib1]

very well thought out , with some neat solutions. 👍

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you! Cheers!🤍

[@Radmacdaddy]

Great video guys! What a lovely boat. You’ve put so much love into it. Enjoy it!🥰❤️🤙🏼🙌

[@mzxmzx4648]

Amazing, love many of your solutions. What Im most cuorius of is how you made the dyneema trampoline net.

[@tartansailor]

You successfully completed a huge project, congratulations. Now is time to enjoy the fruit of your work. Cheers, Richard

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Many thanks Richard!!!!

[@davidharlem6824]

Very creative and in so many ways. Fantastic!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

We appreciate it!!! Thank you!!

[@MrJerobona]

Gorgeous Tiki! I love all the lively colors! So nice! Congratulations!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you so much!🥹⛵️

[@boondockshawks]

Thanks for the Wharram tour! I plan to build a Tiki 21 with thoughts toward doing a 30, 31, or 38 in the future. Always inspiring to see a newly completed one!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Right on! We have the 14ft Haitia plans with hopes to get our selfs a sailing dingy one day!

[@chrisjones9089]

Between 1991 and 1997 Rory McDougall sailed his 21 ft tiki ' Cooking Fat 'round the world! Love the name! Your 30 ft Wharram is luxury by comparison. Great boat for real adventures.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Yeah we love Rory’s journey and feel like we can go really far with Zigzag 🌊⛵

[@helmshardover]

@@ZigZagSailing_113 Rory has a Tiki 30 now...

[@dougford5691]

AWESOME ! Great job. Look forward to following your adventures.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to creating them(:

[@sailingbackstage]

What a nice Wharram! 👍🤙⛵

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you 🎉

[@jerryhansen5116]

Warrams rule, please keep em coming

[@wombatone5577]

Lovely catamaran. The dogs look very interested too. 4year build time is good going, well done!

[@rolandtb3]

Thanks for the tour. 4 yrs in and sea trials whenever possible. Like the colors, paintings, dynema, soft shackles and brass hardware.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Glad you enjoyed it, we definitely wanted to be bright colored and stand out haha

[@rolandtb3]

As a day/ocean cruiser, watching to see how you adapt to longer trips 5 - 20 days or more. Space, accommodations, provisioning, shade are limited. Same for boat handling in extreme conditions. Each owner's Wharram is quite unique.

[@d_fresh1169]

Great video! I only know (personally) of one other Wharram Tiki, and it's here in the Philippines (a Tiki 46. For sure there are many others, but they're not the most well known cats out there(?)). I'm excited to see more of your Tiki, your adventures, and how the vessel suits you, the lifestyle, and various weather conditions. Looking forward to your upcoming videos! Cheers!

[@maurizioturco4497]

Great !!! Nice guys, nice dogs and super nice boat !!! Have a beautiful sails !

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you very much!

[@bravofighter]

Awesome! I love here Wharram cats, they’re so cool. You guys look like an awesome couple, too, I wish you many years of happy sailing together. My wife and I do inland sailing on small monohulls, one trailer sailer and one marina queen. 😂 I can’t wait to see what y’all post! We don’t do a lot of video, I post mainly on Twitter and Kim is mostly FB and Insta, because we’re old…😂

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks so much! We love to share our love of sailing to as many people as possible

[@loganless5128]

You have all my support!! I look forward to the next video❤❤❤❤

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

You're the best! Thank you 🙏

[@eamongreen]

What a beautiful boat! I love your low tech approach and the art work and paint job is fantastic too. I am currently building a Tiki 38, and content like yours is incredibly inspiring, so thanks for posting and keep those videos coming!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Always keep the systems simple. I wanted to make sure that I could repair anything anywhere

[@eamongreen]

Wise words!

[@salorjim1000]

I love the Wharram cat's and yours is great. If I had one I would want exactly the same paint colors, how can you not wake up happy every day with those colors. I sail small boats (Montgomery 17, SCAMP, Norseboat 17.5) and getting too old to build a boat but man if I found a Wharram used in good shape who knows! It's great how you have keep everything simple. Much preferred to a high tech million dollar cat.

[@arthurschuler8906]

Well done!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@peace_oceans]

Fantastic boat! I look forward to seeing more, and am especially enamoured to see less metals and more emphasis on the knots & lashings. Look forward to following your journey.

[@jeffmack4995]

Hey folks, congratulations on your wonderful boat. We love all of the simple solutions that you've both come up with. Our Westsail 32 is pretty colorful, but I think you got us beat! What a great looking boat. We wish you both many happy adventures, just keep a look out for a bright red Westsail! Jeff and Julie s/v OoLaLa Westsail 32 Hull #81

[@mikefox1332]

Good start!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks!

[@simonwilson1211]

Love Wharrams and looking forward to your journey. Good Luck!

[@kevinholden2067]

Great systems using modern technology and keeping it simple

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Always keep it simple!

[@ahmetsokullu1866]

Well done, nicely thought out space use, enjoy your sailing.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you!

[@ianbell5611]

Brilliant work. What Great setup. Love Your art work, Very cool. ❤👍👍👍

[@UUBrahman]

you guys have the best attitude - congratulations.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you!

[@millennialfalkon]

Rad art on the hatches! I love it!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

@millenniafalkon Thank you so much!!!!

[@margaretroberts6511]

Amazing!! Can’t wait to follow the adventure of you & your pups ❤

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Don’t worry, more pup videos are in the works !

[@LEGOLOVE-f8u]

Beautiful tiki❤🎉

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you 🌊🤍

[@AtlanticFun]

Love ur cockpit. That Bimini is awesome.

[@dante9192]

Nice! Way better and more fun than Gone with the Winns.

[@jackblah5842]

This is a very funny comment. I sit here on a Sunday morning looking out at my new/used bare boat Tiki 30 in the side yard waiting to put it in the water this spring and going to work customizing. I also just watch yet another Wynns video thinking how crazy space age their boat is. It's the polar opposite of a Wharram but I can still enjoy learning about what is out there.

[@dante9192]

@@jackblah5842 gone with the Winns is no longer the sailing channel that used to be. Now it's all about high end new, new, new boat. No more adventures and exploring. Very sad in my honest opinion. I no longer watch their stuff...

[@jackblah5842]

@@dante9192 I totally get where you are coming from and love the fact that you were watching the Wynns now preferring channels like this one. I actually like seeing all the million dollar bling like Wynns and La Vagabonde as it emphasizes how Wharram is the way to go. Lately I'm finding the build channels more interesting like RAN sailing's build.

[@StreetTruckinTitan]

Yeah I can no longer relate to the Wynns and find myself supporting channels like Wildling sailing, Yaba, Kiana, a few others and now ZigZag.

[@totalidiotsfails]

A wonderful day at sea

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Hopefully Soon to come 🫶

[@thezaffa7351]

I love your boat. its truly amazing! may you have many glorious adventures.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you!

[@loganless5128]

very beautiful video!! Thanks to the girl for nature and beauty. that swimsuit is perfect!! I beg you please always use it❤❤❤❤❤❤ 

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

I will 🥲🤍🌊

[@zetetimm]

500th Sub!!! Very Cool Boat guys! Looking forward to seeing more videos!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@bearitraeb]

Your fur babies are beautiful

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks!

[@KMEthridge]

Awesome!

[@alfred-vz8ti]

envy! best of luck.

[@willmv4139]

beautifull clean built, thank you for sharing!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks for watching !

[@calmauric8218]

Very cool. Ive been fantasising about a whatram build. - my dogs would love that little sleeping spot hahah.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

It only took four years to build! No big deal!

[@polswan2551]

cool boat , cool owners¡¡

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks man!

[@dominictarrsailing]

The prussics are great, I might copy that! you know instead of the little pump thing you could just use a spihon if you lifted the water tank on top of the cabin top. I use a siphon on my wharram, but I have a sink in the galley and water in tanks in a deck locker

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Oh that’s awesome, since the tour we have upgraded our sink. Katie got frustrated so we got a nicer solar shower called Nemo I believe and it has a “foot pump” that works great. Yeah the sink in the galley sounds like a game changer. We opted not to do the water tank inside the cabin.

[@dominictarrsailing]

@@ZigZagSailing_113 foot pumps do have one very good advantage that you cannot forget that you left them on so very difficult to accidentially drain the tank!

[@MikeSantis]

Beautiful boat!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you!

[@ScotChef]

Just saw your channel randomly there and noticed you have a blue princess aboard too. ❤👌🏻 subd and hello from princess blue mist bella (her posh name) lol

[@svkusi]

i love how this uses appropriate tech, low tech simple and efficient. using the best tech currently available, without wasting monery in gadgetry

[@dd214veteran]

Love it. If you guys are still in the St. John area I’d love to see it in person.

[@alfreddaniels3817]

Beautiful, 👍👍😀😀

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Many thanks!

[@alfreddaniels3817]

I have a Pahi 31. I did not build it myself but bought it a few years ago. Nice boat but not as beautifull as your Tiki

[@gregarycomehere]

Awesome paint job.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you so much 🫶

[@DougVarble]

Incredible tour, I am a new subscriber, keep it real, you will be a success with KZbin 🎉 ShowUS a sea trial sail😅

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

thanks man! I appreciate it, I need to take some editing classes 😅

[@Chief_Red_Cloud]

Beautiful..

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@gillestomasi1]

For your Origo stove 'in case of extra burning extiguish the fire with WATER which is mixing perfectly w/ alcohol! a fire extinguisher will seal your burners! ( personal experience) nice cat!

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Awesome advice! Thanks!

[@johnthomas5806]

kind of rough life I think I would enjoy.....good winds always...

[@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665]

Ok for young bodies in warm climb's. They have a lot more comforts than James Wharram and the Wharram girls did in the first decade of wharrams .😉🧙‍♂️ They have done some great work and thought about things a lot. The insulated decking is something more boats should incorporate... Guys look into Basalt fiber and Cork makes a superb insulator its organic light mould and anti bacterial It can be painted or oiled or left raw ..it insulates against heat and absorbs sound. Its kind under the feet and protects against bumps if bony parts hit it. Love the th

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

It sure is! Thank you

[@joshkaiser8583]

Glad to see the interior of the Tiki 30! Thanks. Did y’all build it? Where’ve yall taken it so far

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Yes we built it. Sailed from St. John to St. Martin and are continue our summer voyage through the rest of the Caribbean

[@JMACK1]

Are you going to add some kind of autopilot? Super nice boat, you did a great job building it. Never mind just watched the Guadeloupe trip

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Thanks so much for watching yes!!! It has vastly improved our sailing ⛵️ 10 fold! We just used it for 24 hours straight- in down wind It’s not perfect but it works!!!

[@charleselertii6187]

Thank You so much. I am very worried about your compass being mounted on the cockpit table/storage cabinet. Anything that is made of iron/steel/ferrous metal or worse, has a magnet in it, and it is stowed in that cabinet, it will hugely affect your compass. (I think I saw a steel aerosol can in there. How about screwdrivers and tools,etc. ?) I don't want you to wreck depending on an impaired navigation compass. Chuck in Florida.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

No worries. The analog compass is really just there as a back up to our electronic navigation.

[@RWalling12]

Will there be a build video? Even a slideshow would be cool.

[@stewartpatton2179]

Nice video! I just started a Tiki 30 build, so I wish this was 3 hours long. Talk dyneema to me all day, baby! One question--can you turn your engine to steer (or do you just steer with the rudder)?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

We are planning on making a part 2 tour with more technical details about the build. The engine can turn slightly but not very much.

[@stewartpatton2179]

@@ZigZagSailing_113 Cool, can't wait

[@143tinaed]

I love your boat,great video. Where are you at? Ed

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Right now we are in the Virgin Islands. Built in St. John. USVI

[@johngalilee]

Great boat 👏. Regarding the prusik for anchoring, is there not a possibility, albeit a rare one, that the prusik could move at times when the wind and tide and anchor lines are slack?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Sorry I don’t know what you’re referring to as the prison ?

[@johngalilee]

​@@ZigZagSailing_113autocorrect typo sorry I meant prusik

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

The bay we are in right now has variable strength winds and direction. We have been there two months on the same anchor. The prusik knot tightens and will not loosen unless you sort of untension it in your fingers.

[@bryanbadger6841]

Found your channel. Love it. Like and subscribed. Looking forward to further adventures with you. Take care and atb from down here in Nz. Btw did you ever have a chance of meeting James Wharram before he passed.?? Interesting fellow.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Awe Thank you! We really appreciate it! And It’s one of our dreams to sail in NZ, we have read all of the Wharram literature but never had the chance to meet him. We were 2 years into our build when he passed, his spirit is definitely here with us and in all his designs and vessels✨

[@MasterAwaba]

I was fortunate to meet James Wharram back in about 2019. I bought a set of study plans for a Tiki 21 20+ years ago but never got around to building anything. But still looking for a Tiki 30 or similar near Sydney to restore and explore the Barrier Reef in QLD with.

[@bryanbadger6841]

@@ZigZagSailing_113 hey thanks for the response guys. "Sailing Lucky Fish" is another channel to check on. Although they don't appear to be actively sailing now, there are great reference points on sailing and maintenance of the Wharram. Another Wharram, which became world famous in Nz, was one that took part in the fleet that sailed to Mururoa Atoll to protest the Nuclear Bomb testing on the atoll, back during the 70's. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of that Wharram. How often are you planning on uploading??. I don't want to miss an episode. Keep em coming.

[@GoPoundSalt]

Nice demo. Why is the Bimini so low?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

The mainsail is a fixed height can’t raise the mast

[@GoPoundSalt]

@@ZigZagSailing_113 So the design is more like a leisure phishing boat?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Not sure what you mean?

[@thesep1967]

When you're under way: where does that dog shit? Seriously.

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

So we have a long rectangle of turf that they sometimes use but more often when it’s wavy they are too unbalanced to get up there so we let them go in the cockpit floor. When we are anchored they go on the turf or the cabin roof or at the very stern near the tiller! And we wash with a bucket of seawater and spray with ocean friendly cleaner and do another rinse!

[@markhandley7665]

That was far too short loved it could of quit happily watched a lot longer

[@James-gz4oj]

👍👍👍

[@sausage5849]

Could it be sailed to it's namesake? Polynesia?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

Yes! That’s the plan is to eventually cross the pacific and get her over there!

[@roginutah]

What kind of diverter for your toilet?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

It’s a plastic one from eBay. I think it shipped from the UK

[@JA-sb4go]

Do dogs get seasick?

[@MrRourk]

One hull for dogs and one for humans? Is that the plan?

[@ZigZagSailing_113]

We have an opening in the bulk head to connect the front space of the starboard hull (where the dogs jumped down from the front hatch) to our sleeping quarts that are in the starboard hull so we both (humans)sleep in the main bed of the starboard hull. Technically it’s the same hull we are just in the main sleeping area/mid section! Haha

[@DARTHDANSAN]

Source of income ?