Kaimusailing

s/v Kaimu Wharram Catamaran

Vessel Name: Kaimu
Vessel Make/Model: Wharram Custom
Hailing Port: Norwalk, CT
Crew: Andy and the Kaimu Crew
About: Sailors in the Baltimore, Annapolis, DC area.
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Recent Blog Posts
21 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA

Just Add Water

The rainy weekend started off with overcast and fog but no rain. It looked like I might be able to get something done on the D4 dinghy. I wanted to change the bow seat which is really the bow deck. The sailing option uses the deck to hold the freestanding mast. I didn’t like how the deck looked, [...]

01 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Alternative Seats

The rain event was more wind than rain, strong winds with gusts up to 44 mph. We drove into town to see what the harbor was like. There was a small sailboat that had dragged anchor and was sitting close to shore. The tide was out. We left and played with Bleu at Notter’s Pond.

23 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Inside Seams

Day two of the dinghy build started out with me finishing wiring the hull bottoms together on the centerline of the bottom panels. This was much easier than the wiring of the chine edges of the bottom panels and the side panels.

15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Day One

A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.

11 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Redux

The inflatable (deflatable) dinghy I had bought was deteriorating. It had bottom seams separating. It is a West Marine branded dinghy made out of PVC. HH66 is the adhesive to reattach the seams. A friend had a similar problem and bought the same adhesive. I was waiting to hear from him how it worked [...]

06 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

The Clincher

We decided to go to Amelia Island for the day, probably to the beach. Our plan to cycle around on the Raleigh 20’s seemed like a bad idea, Bleu can’t keep up with a bicycle for very long and when he quits he quits. So we would walk, where?, Fort Clinch State Park. She has a forever pass for Florida [...]

More Solar

16 February 2012 | Bodkin Inlet at the dock
Capn Andy/mild winter
After the cabinet door frames were cured, they were sanded with a belt sander. Then they were shaped with the router taking a 3/8" rabbet on the inside edge for 1/8" lexan glass, and 3/8" round off of the inside edge. A 3/16" round off bit was used on all the exterior edges. The two cabinets above the stove counter were treated differently with 3/8" round off of the outside edges. Next the frames were clamped into their cabinets and carefully nudged into position. A boring jig was made to mark the holes for the concealed hinges. It was clamped to the back side of the door frame then the frame was removed for drilling. Then the door frame was reclamped in its cabinet and the jig clamped to the other corner. The standard 1 3/8" recess for the hinges was drilled with a forstner bit, first tested on a scrap of wood to find the depth needed.

The hinges were screwed to the frames and once again the doors were clamped into their cabinets and carefully positioned. The hinges were screwed to the cabinets. The doors needed stops to hold them flush with the cabinet faces when closed. These were made with little blocks of wood and glued into the cabinets.

The picture is of a solar charge controller from Harbor Freight. Their solar panel kits were on sale, so we picked up two of them, and each has included a charge controller, cold cathode fluorescent lights, battery wires with jaw clamps, and an adapter cable that will fit almost any DC powered device. These charge controllers look like a much better product than the previous model, but both models provide the same functions. The older model would fail, a 100% failure rate, so I am using Sunsei PWM solar charge controllers. The Harbor Freight model also provides a convenient DC distribution panel, and when they fail it is only the charge control function that fails, so they can still be used for DC distribution. The fluorescent lamps come with wires that have a 1/4" connector that plugs right into the distribution panel. No need for light switches. It looks like these fluorescent lamps will screw right into any ordinary household incandescent lamp socket. Each solar kit comes with two lamps, so I must have a dozen of these lamps.

The solar panels will probably be installed in a hard bimini over the helm station. Another project somewhere down the line.
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