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

[0:10]Um, this is Momo's favorite kitchen in there. So we use uh lashings for it and I accidentally broke it recently. Um, but we keep the dog food, towels, scuba gear, I don't know, rain kind of jackets, all that good stuff. And in the other one, what do we have? Snorkeling stuff. Snorkeling stuff, secondary anchor. Yeah. Cool. And then I'll take you into the cockpit here. Um, this is our engine. What is that too as well? What horsepower is it? 9.9. 9.9. It starts on the first pole. I fucking love it. Um, we have our well that Momo likes to pee in. Jason hasn't gotten it yet, but um, we like it cuz, I don't know. It's comfy and this is the shaded part from we named it Momo. We have our cushions. We have our seating underneath that Alex hand wove. Um, you can see Jasmine, this is her favorite spot too. Um, where Alex did the lashings. The cables. This is the cockpit table that we made not in the plans either. This is a modification to the building plans with a hollow underneath part so that we can have a little bit of storage as our toolbox. A little dark in there, but originally I was thinking that it could be something like a battery compartment for like the mast headlights or whatever, but we didn't end up doing lights on the mast. So this slab of wood came from St. Thomas from a really old mahogany tree. It's so pretty. I love it. It's a little bit scratched right now. We have to do a refinish on it, but we did a little epoxy, red epoxy in there and the whole thing is one solid slab of wood. Uh, the Jip sheet is two to one, first of all, it goes back to the Jib through a pulley once and then comes back to the winch. We barely even used these winches because it's so easy to pull the jib on just with the two to one alone. They're just little number 16 winches that we did got on the buy one, get one free from West Marine whenever they do that bogo sale for for winches. That really saved us a lot of money. Oh, and Alex put the red jib sheet on the red line and on the port he used green, so not to be confused.

[2:49]We want it to be different. Also, each has a painting on it that we did. Just because you can't hang paintings on a boat, doesn't mean that you can't have art. Crazy. That's Katie's sunflower hatch. And then our moon painting that Alex did that I love. I'll take you into our starboard cabin. Um, Alex put this guy on so the hatch wouldn't blow up or, you know, fall over. Um, we have this little guy to keep the hatch open for when we're sleeping and this just slides out. I usually put it off to the side.

[3:27]And if you follow me, steps here, that'll show you. And we put some Kiwi grip on there just so we wouldn't slip or fall or anything like that. And then this is our kitchen. And we have our burky for water. We got. I forgot what this stove is called. You know where it's called? I think it's an origo. It's made in Sweden. It's an alcohol stove, non-pressurized alcohol stove. Yeah. Main thing is propane leaks that we just didn't want to have propane in such a small space here. Agreed. Um, this is just stuff we use every day, so I don't know, kitchen utensils. I use some command strips here to just stick on things that we would use. Does a pretty swell job. Um, some easy stuff that'll grow in water. Um, I'm a teacher, so I just have always had a little whiteboard. I love it. Um, some spices there. Um, snacks, all that stuff. I keep, I don't know, garbage bags. Dog treats under there. I have some tupperware that stores like clean rags. We have our pots, pans, bowls, just random stuff. I keep clothes in these bins so they don't get moldy or wet or anything like that. Um, I have toilets you. Oh, I have toiletry in here and then under here I have like just some towels and stuff like that. Alex made this cool grid on the floor just so it's kind of like a non-slip material. I think it's made out of teak. Yeah. Play out teak. We have these cool fans here to keep us dry when we're sleeping, to keep air flowing. Um, I love it. It has three different speeds and a timer. And then I could angle it whenever we're cooking, cuz I get super hot all the time unnecessarily. And then it turns whenever we're sleeping. If you come in here, this is our bedroom. We have the night light, we got the daylight. We got a little, what do you call this? Little port hole window. Yeah. That was my doing. Um, I really like air flow and it just locks up whenever it's raining, which I love, and that looks out there. If I back up, you're going to see our little opening in the bulkhead uh for the dog's kind of bedroom. I have their little cute squish mellow beds. I keep their life jackets in there. Um, Alex keeps some leashes, some Dyneema lines in there. Oh good job Jasmine.

[6:03]So they like to climb in there, which is great. And that was such a smooth landing. And then underneath there are some storage. So I don't even know what we have in there. Yeah, we have like nothing in there, but if we ever need to store stuff, we can. Hey buddy. This is the port side hall where we have pretty much everything that we need. This is the chart plotter on a swivel, so we can put it outside. The fridge is tiny cooler fridge made by Angle. And it could be a freezer or a refrigerator. Um, which is nice if we ever like catch like a giant fish one day. And we have a carbon fiber composting toilet that I made out of carbon fiber. We bought the plastic diverter, but there's carbon fiber toilet. We use peat moss to use our composting toilet. So whenever we after we go, we do a scoop full or two and then we just cover and stir like churning butter. She have in here the electrical panel and charge controller and uh yeah, the charge controller is inside of here. We have another fan for airflow, but we can both fit in here pretty comfortably. Yeah. This is the Jackery battery that we use for charging our iPads and iPhones. It's got an inverter built in DC, USB plugs and we plug it into the solar panel. For this hull just goes to a deep dark storage for all of our sail storage and miscellaneous crap. The top of our cabin is like a foam plywood sandwich that keeps us super insulated and the top is made out of carbon Kevlar and fiberglass. And we put some Kiwi grip on the top. We made it white, so our feet don't get really hot. Um, I really like to do yoga up here. It's really nice and we use a bus bin to store some of the anchor line in just to manage it all, keep it all dry. Um, this is where the two main halyard clutches go to. We have two because we are Gaff rigged catamaran. Uh, mostly everything I use is bolted on with bronze bolts and bronze everything. These are rope constrictor uh clutches different than your regular sort of clutches. We just did a modification, which is why it looks like there's one missing here. We took the jib halyard and we put it outside of the main sail area just to keep it away from taping on the mast and just away from everything in general.

[9:02]And then we have out here the trampoline, which we went with Dyneema as well. Lots of things on this boat are Dyneema. Uh jib, this is Jib 1, the biggest jib, the light air jib. And yeah, everything is rigged in Dyneema. So the four stay and the four stay bridle are all Dyneema and we've lashed them to the bows instead of putting any kind of metal fitting into the bow or anything like that. The anchoring system came straight out of the building plans. They gave a couple of different suggestions, but we took this one to be the best suggestion. We made our chalks or fair leads. These are two big pieces of purple heart that I painstakingly drilled out and carved into a nice round hole.

[10:01]We have some sailmaking leather on the anchor line for chafe protection, but the uh and then that is anchored to the main mass beam. Cleated off there. And we have slightly different anchoring system than I think most people will have for their boats. This is a bridle going to a soft, a big soft shackle, which is then attached to a chafe guarded, uh loop of Dyneema that we prusik knotted onto the anchoring line, which is just a friction hitch, so it grabs onto that line without damaging it. And that's how we can anchor at different depths. We drilled four holes into the bow with Dyneema lashing. And um, as you can see, the jib stays are made out of Dyneema too, which is pretty fun.

[11:10]Like soft shackles, so very the jib hanks are Dyneema. Everything is Dyneema, soft shackles everywhere. Yay. So this is kind of the concept of our anchoring line too. We just did on the line. This is a prusik knot. This is climbing friction hitch knot that I just lashed on and all you do to pick the ladder up is to pull this rope holding the lashing up.

[11:42]And that's exactly the same concept as our anchoring line. This would be the anchor line. This would be the bridle attachment point. Sweet. So this is our sink. Um, we use it with this little solar power battery case that Gosun sink came with, and we hook up the tube to feed into our water tank. So it has a little filter on it, and we just fish that in, and we got a sink. Um, it uses a lot of water. As you can see, I'm just kidding, it doesn't use a lot of water at all. So, at the end of doing our breakfast dishes, I'll show you guys how much water I used. When it's raining and you're trying to do dishes at night. You open it up and instead of plugging the USB into the solar panel charger battery thing, you would plug it into like a battery pack or something that you already have charged up. Thanks for watching our full boat tour video. We just spent four years building this boat and we're still doing the sea trials on it. So every time there is light wind, we go sailing and we test things out and we're still in the testing phase. Uh, but thanks for watching. Thank you so much for watching and give us a like, subscribe. I mean, we're just starting off, so I'd be really appreciative to all of you guys and for watching us until the end. I appreciate it. Thank you.