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. |
23 April 2024 | St Marys, GA
D4 Launchie
The laptop pooped the bed, so I have to scurry around with alternatives. Not as bad as typing on the phone.
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.
After the Storm
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The track of the hurricane was peculiar. It would come up the coast following the Gulf Stream, then make an abrupt left turn off the Delaware coast, come ashore at Delaware Bay, head west, then make an abrupt right turn to the north. Additionally, a cold front moving in from the west would would merge with the hurricane, forming an instant nor'easter. There would be blizzards in the higher elevations and a foot of rain dumped on the lowlands. We had the option of flooding due to storm surge, flooding due to full moon spring tides, and flooding due to a foot of rain on all the areas around Chesapeake Bay.
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The picture is of the dock near low tide the morning after the storm. It looks like the north wind had countered the storm surge and kept the water level low until later, when the wind turned to the south. It must have been at least 3 feet over the level of the dock when that happened. As it turns out, there was little or no damage.
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The news came in that the HMS Bounty had sunk off of Cape Hatteras while running away from the storm. The captain and one crew were lost, 14 others were rescued. From the first accounts it sounds like they had developed a serious leak, maybe a sprung plank and couldn't keep up with the water, even with all pumps running. When the diesels were swamped, and the pumps stopped, the ship quickly sank. The tactic of running away from the storm is not a bad tactic. The southwest quarter of the storm represents the lightest winds, plus they are receding as the storm heads north. Something else must have caused the leak which lead to the sinking.
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