Mango was sold a couple of years ago but is back on the market again with the same broker, see the link below.  She is still in Mediterranean Spain.

Wharram Tiki 30 Mango Elephant for sale

NOW SOLD

Hello all, after nearly 14 years of sailing her we are selling our Wharram Tiki 30 Mango Elephant as we have decided to go for a bigger boat with a view to living aboard.  If your are interested get in touch, we have photos, videos and more detailed info.  A summary of Mango is below and she has featured in a number of Sea People articles as well as postings here and on the Wharram Builders foruym.  To the right is a link to a 2013 posting on how she is set up since when there has been further improvements.

Link to Broker

Leaving Harbour

Harbour Tent up

Mango Elephant is a Wharram Tiki 30 with a central cabin (pod). Mango was built to plan and to a high standard by the builder. The second, and current, owners added the pod and have evolved her into a self sufficient micro cruiser with bow and stern netting, wind vane and electric self steering and other additions and refinements which make her easy to sail single handed. Mango can comfortably sleep 4 in the main cabins and the forepeaks can also be used as single berths.

Pod with Table Up

Slave Instruments in Pod

Mango was originally launched in 2001, purchased by the current owners in 2005 and refitted in 2008/9 when a central cabin was added as per plans by James Wharram Designs. Annual maintenance has been done since the refit and since 2016 many items, including sails, have been replaced with new as part of a staged refit. In the last 2 years Mango has not been sailed much. Tiki 30s are capable offshore cruising yachts, others have done the Atlantic Circuit.
The owners have the original plans and VAT receipts and records of work done since they bought Mango. Replacement netting is waiting to be fitted and then Mango is ready to cruise. Mango is currently in Mediterranean Spain but can be delivered anywhere in the Med, Biscay and up to the North Sea.
The central pod provides a sitting area which can be used as 2 single berths or converts into a large double bed. Wharram Designs say that the berths in the main hull cabins are doubles, but we found them better used as generous single berths. For extended cruising the forepeaks have been used for storage rather than as berths. All the berths have extensive storage underneath them and there is additional storage in aft lockers.
The bows and sterns have crash compartments and the keels have sacrificial strips encased in kevlar tape to provide protection when grounding.  Lashings have been added to supplement the inboard straps on the aft and mast beams

The key items that come with Mango are:

• Forestay (2017) bridle (2014) Spectra shrouds (2015) and lazy forestay (2011)
• Main (2016) and furling genoa (2017) almost new condition
• CDI furler reconditioned in 2017
• Hanked no.3 jib, for strong winds, in good condition
• Asymmetric spinnaker (2001) with snuffer (2016) in good condition
• Storm sails in excellent condition
• Rocna and Plough anchors with warp and chain
• Icom VHF DSC Radio with Command Mic in Pod (2017)
• NASA AIS
• NASA combined depth and log
• NASA Navtex receiver
• MLR FX312XC GPS
• Echomax Active XS radar reflector (2011)
• LED tricolour and anchor light
• 4 solar panels rated at 35w each fitted 2014(1) and 2016(3)
• Forgen 1000 wind generator (2011)
• Starboard battery 125 ah(2013), Starboard battery 142 ah(2015)
• LED lights in pod
• Seafeather wind vane steering
• Tillerpilot electronic steering
• Jackstays
• Fenders and warps
• Dinghy
• Cockpit tent
• Yamaha 8hp outboard
• 12 / 220 v cool box
• Alcohol stove in galley with loads of fuel plus single burner portable gas stove

2016 On Mango

2015 ended by us spending Christmas on Mango and using our cockpit tent for the first time since leaving Biscay.  We had hoped to get out for a sail but the weather was not conducive.
Easter was mainly spent catching up on maintenance, testing our new mainsail and fitting new solar panels and regulators.
Our plan for the summer was to cruise Sardinia which is about a 3 day passage from where we are based in Spain.  We were initially delayed by a minor injury Helen sustained, but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise as the summer has been characterized by more frequent than usual strong winds which would have given us a headache as they have been stronger in Sardinia and finding a weather window to get back would have been all consuming.
Our foretaste of having escaped some challenging sailing came when we were just short of Fornells in Minorca and we heard a gale warning on the VHF, the forecast had been for the following night to be a 5 gusting 6 and for light winds to follow.  In the event we were stuck in Fornells for 10 days while two gales blew themselves out.
So, rather than going to Sardinia we circumnavigated Minorca and revisited some of our favourite places in North Mallorca and had some good sailing but more motoring that we have had to do in previous years
Fornells did not impress when we first entered, but it grew on us as we stayed there and we would go again There is plenty of room in the harbour, but it does have a lot of motor boat and dinghy sailing activity (which was a useful distraction when we were stuck on the boat during the blows).  The town is small and pleasant and the old fortified tower at the entrance has been restored in to an interesting museum.
After Fornells we sailed down to Addaia past a rocky coastline with lots of inlets which would make wonderful day anchorages.  We arrived at Addaia doing over 7 knots under sail with a following wind and had to do a smart sail drop as the channel is very narrow and winds.  The main part of the inlet is mainly filled with mooring buoys but being a shallow draft catamaran we were able to go through to a shallow pool beyond the moorings and anchor in idyllic surroundings with a pleasant walk along bridleways into the town.


ps Our apologies, yet again I forgot to make a note of our cruising stats before leaving the boat.

Posting on hold

For the time being we have gone back to work.  Mango is still based in Spain and cruising to the Balearics so each year is pretty much a repeat of the previous ones so we are not actively maintaining the blog.

This year we learnt the hard way that you need to filter fuel even if it comes from a reputable source (we found rust in our tanks from fuel we got from a marina) and if you are not using a boat regularly you need to empty all your petrol tanks before leaving and clean the tanks as deposits build up.

2017 seems to be a repeat of 2016 for regular Tramontanas and gales from the East.

The upside of being in Spain is that it is warm, being rained on is not a hardship and the seafood is unbelievably fresh after the poor stuff one sees on UK fish counters.

The upside we have found of having Mango is that she is so light she will sail in winds when everyone else is motoring so we can go for a day sail.  We put a new main on last year and found that we had more weather helm, put on a new jib this year and the sails are now perfectly balanced so it is probably worth replacing sails as a set if you can.

We have decided to go back to wire shrouds as we have found that the Spectra shrouds are affected by tempreature to a degree that they need regular adjusting which is too much work for a short handed cruising boat unless one invests in some expensive dead eye arrangements.

Another Balearics cruise

We have decided to base Mango on the Spanish coast for a couple of years as we realised that we need to keep working for a while but have enjoyed the Balaerics so much that we decided to sacrifice being able to sail every weekend to be able to have longish holidays in the Med.

This year we went out for July and August and sailed out to Soller (on Mallorca), which was as beautiful as we remembered and from there went up to Pollensa and then to Menorca and managed to sail round to Mahon.  We had hoped to do more but the weather was unsettled and as we avoid going to sea when a Force 5 or thunderstorms are forecast so our sailing time was constrained.

Mahon was well worth the visit.  We did not get ashore as the weather turned and we decided to head back to Mallorca rather than get weather bound by a NE gale.  We had heard that it was difficult to moor in Mahon, but the anchorages had space and there was loads of empty spaces on the pontoons we saw near the islands.

We had driven out to the boat on our new (to us) motorhome and came back via Vielha (which took us roughly through the middle of the Pyrenees).  It was (almost) worth the loss of sailing time as the scenery is so dramatic.  We were particularly impressed by the amount of hydroelectric plants there were on the rivers - nothing wasted.

Biggest surprise of the trip was another Tiki 30 moored across the pontoon from us.

Biggest anxiety of the trip was a wheel bearing starting to make a noise after descending the Pyrenees, but after a check by an wonderful French mechanic and following his advice on driving slowly we got back without any problems.

Some photos from the trip are below.

Puerto de Soller 

Torent de Pareis

Passing Ile de L'Aire, Menorca

Clouds being sucked into a thunderstorm over Valencia

View over canal running alongside the river Ebro

Lake behind dam

Dam in Pyrenees (sorry, forgot to note the name)

Half way up

Rest area before Vielha tunnel (all downhill from here)

Back home

We have added pictures to the posts and will add stats to this page when we have worked them out.  We spend a lot more time motoring and a lot less time in marinas this year than last year so it will be interesting to compare the stats.

For UK sailors one of the most amazing things about sailing around the Balearics was the clarity of the water.  When we were crossing the south side of Formentorar we could make out sand patches on the bottom through about 18m of water!  We could always check the anchor by going swimming, and if the water was still just looking could be sufficient, below are pictures taken when anchored in 6m of water, the anchor is directly underneath us.

Left Balearics

After a brief cruise down to Binirassi, which was too croweded for comfort, we spent a few days watching the weather whilst in Cala Blanco and then Cala Charracca until we saw what looked like a settled period, so after a long restraunt lunch in Portinax we set of on a night sail to the Columbretes, a small group of (ex)volcanic islands of the Spanish coast.

Cala Charraca

The wind was stronger and the sea nastier than forecast, but both died away on the approach and we arrived in sunshine. The main anchorage is in the bowl of the defunct volcano and is spectacular.

After 2 nights we left and the predicted wind materialized giving us a wonderful fetch and reach to the Spanish coast where we will be laying up for the winter.