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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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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 [...]

Sunday, a Day of Rest

08 November 2015 | Beaufort, NC
Capn Andy/Rain and Wind
After a day of hard work after a night interrupted by the flounder giggers, I looked forward to a good night’s sleep. I was sore and tired. I drifted off to sleep.
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At a quarter past midnight I was awakened by the sound of a blast of wind in the rigging. Howling wind. I got up and hung around in the galley looking at our surroundings, wondering if the plow anchor would start plowing and drift us into the nearby shoals. I retreated to the pilothouse where I could see all around and made mental marks of other boats, lights, buildings on shore, to line up our position. I saw that we were relatively stationary while other boats were moving around on their anchors or moorings.
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It was low tide and we were anchored in shallow water, which was what was available when we came in and anchored. At lowest tide the starboard rudder would bottom, so I had put a stern anchor out to hold us off the shoal. Now that stern anchor was holding Kaimu against the wind sideways. The danger was that the plow anchor at the bow has a characteristic of not releasing from the bottom, but plowing through it, very slowly, and if it did that, the bow would fall off toward the shoal and we would be stuck.
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It was raining off and on and very chilly. I didn’t want to go out in that to do anything, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep unless I did something. I went on deck and brought the second anchor, a large Danforth, to the port bow and laid out its rode to pay out over the side. The danforth has the characteristic of holding very strongly but if the wind changes and the boat moves to the opposite direction, the danforth with flip over and lose its grip. In this case it would be perfect to hold the bow.
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I jumped into the deflatable dinghy whose port air tube was very soft. It has to be pumped up daily. It also was full of rain water, cold, my clothes were soon wet and cold. I rowed over to the port bow, put the anchor into the dinghy, then rowed to windward as far as I could. I came
up to the next boat to windward and the anchor rode was at its limit. Over the anchor went and back to Kaimu I rowed.
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Back on board I took up the slack on the danforth, like a fisherman tugging to set his hook. The anchor set and the bow was pulled to windward a bit, to make sure the strain was on the danforth. I could now go to sleep.
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When I awoke it was cold and I wanted to stay in the bunk, but I knew I had to go on deck to check things over. Then I remembered the propane space heater, which was in the galley. It had its own little propane cannister that could be refilled and reused. I filled it and lighted the heater. Soon the galley was warm and toasty. Breakfast was made. I went on deck and moved the danforth rode to the middle of the bow crosstube, so that Kaimu could lie directly into the wind. She was also pulled a bit to windward to make sure the rudders didn’t ground on the shoal.
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I went ashore to pick up some wine at the shop and fill two of the carboys with water, returned, all through a 20 knot wind that continued. It wasn’t even 11 AM yet. Sunday should be a day of rest.
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