By James Wharram and Hanneke Boon 2004 This article is also available in French Foreword One man above all has kept the memory and achievements of the French pioneer of modern catamarans, Eric de Bisschop, alive. This is James Wharram, who in 1944, at the age of 16 bought the English translation of Eric de Bisschop's book 'The voyage of the Kaimiloa' (published in English in