Stormalong

In the early 1970s sailing boats, both new and old, were very expensive and way outside my budget. The only way to get the boat was to build one. I liked the simple Wharram catamarans and decided to build a 27ft Tane. Stormalong was built of plywood and I remember buying the complete list of materials, top quality marine plywood and clear sitka spruce for stringers and mast, for £245. I built her while living at home, on a smallholding plot. It took 2 years of part-time work. After sailing her to the Caribbean and back we needed a boat with much more accommodation to live aboard.