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. |
17 April 2024 | St Marys, GA
Dinghy Skeg
I was suffering with what seemed like a cold and also had allergy symptoms. I awoke and felt fine. The green pollen that was coating everything was gone. Maybe it will return.
07 April 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Clammy Hands
Items came in from TEMU, the Chinese cut rate retailer. One was a nice little drone that cost about twelve and a half dollars. It looked like an easy thing to play with while I coughed and sneezed. I was fighting a summer cold, even though it is not summer elsewhere, it seems like it here. A nice [...]
02 April 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Sun Doggie
After laminating the cedar strips onto the gunwales of the dinghy I found the screws I used wouldn’t come out. The epoxy had seized them. The screw heads were stripped so I cut a straight slot in the heads with the cut off wheel. The cedar smoked when the screw heads got red hot. I could remove [...]
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.
Fiddling Around
Before I quit I glued in some repairs. Tomorrow would be another day. Cornelia Marie came down to her big ketch and warmed up the engine, then headed out for a visit to Baltimore. At this time the last couple of years, no one in their right mind would be going out on their boat. It was even iced over. This is certainly the mildest winter in years. Hurray.
After repairing my mistakes I continued hanging the last two doors. Then I put a coat of varnish on them. The picture is of the cabinet doors to the right of the galley stove, above the counter. The teak color came out as almost an exact match to the existing drawers. There was an existing fiddle for the shelf above the stove counter and I had not sanded it for varnish, so I would have to do that. Then I started thinking about the fiddles for the counter tops. A fiddle is a little rail at the edge of a table to keep things from sliding off.
The fiddles would be made from 1 1/2" X 3/4" stock, the same size and type of wood as the cabinet doors. A rabbet of the lower back edge of 3/4" X 3/8" allows the fiddle to both sit on top the table edge and overlap the face of the table edge. The top of the rabbet is rounded off with a 3/8" router round off bit and the remaining lower edge is rounded off with it also. This machining produces an oval cross section with one corner taken out.
