Captain’s notes: Polynesia and polyamory – the 60th anniversary of amazing voyage by catamaran king James Wharram
Sixty years ago, in the autumn of 1959, Brit James Wharram and Germans Jutta Schultze-Rohnhof and Ruth Merseburger (pictured below) sailed into the Conwy river on Wharram’s self-designed catamaran Rongo. The trio had just made history, with the first west to east North Atlantic crossing in a multi-hull. Wharram, Schultze-Rohnhof and Merseburger had already caught …