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.
Office Depot America's Cup Boat, Proa pt IV
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The clandestine picture seems to have been taken of the vessel on drydock.
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Although the vessel was seen to accelerate quickly on the Bodkin Inlet, this sudden burst of speed ended when the outrigger flooded and the vessel capsized. A design flaw to facilitate a daggerboard in the float allowed the raging seas to come on deck and flood the outrigger float. A similar capsize destroyed the Oracle boat on San Francisco Bay and that was an 8 million dollar capsize. The Office Depot boat has just as much computer design time invested in it, but there is no carbon fiber. The expense is less, but the consternation of the designers is just as great.
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At first glance, the Office Depot sail, with its low aspect ratio and lack of battens, might not be taken seriously, but let's think about that Oracle capsize and what happened out on SF Bay. The high aspect ratio wingsail creates a lot of drive up high, depressing the lee hull bow, causing a pitchpole capsize. Now look again at that low Office Depot sail, creating plenty of drive off the wind and it's low down, no capsize. Upwind it may be lacking in comparison to the 8 million dollar wingsail, but if that sail capsizes and destroys the boat, it's kind of couterproductive. Office Depot had no problem contributing the low aspect ratio sail you see in the picture, and they don't even have a dedicated sailmaker.
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I'm sure other clandestine photos will surface in the media, and if they do, we will try to provide the latest and most correct information about this highly secret project. Don't be fooled.
