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.
Utter Rudder
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After removing the rest of the rudder pivot posts, using a car jack on the remaining lower one and banging with a hammer on the uppers, the memory foam mattresses were removed from a pair of sawhorses and left to continue drying draped over the anchor bridle forward at the bow. The sawhorses were then used to support the rudder that was nearly complete, used as a table for the other rudder, and then work could begin to shape the stub of the rudder for scarf joints to add a blade to it.
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The memory foam mattresses that were inundated several times were flushed with fresh water, but they retain the water and refuse to dry out. They are like a sponge, water can be squeezed out of the lowest hanging part of the mattress, but it will become wet again as moisture creeps down. When they are dry I can move my bunk back into the starboard hull to relieve the jam up in the port hull.
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It took all day to do all this and the picture is of a scarf joint attempt on the rudder stub. The rudder is made of three layers of 3/8 inch plywood, shaped and glassed. I will be using two layers of 5/8 inch plywood. Using two layers will enable two scarf joints to be cut at a 10:1 angle. It works out to 6 ¼ inch wide scarfs. The rudder stub will have an edge ground back on both sides at the 10:1 angle, leaving a sharp knife edge in the middle. The two layers of the blade to be added will have the same angle ground in. First one layer will be glued to one side of the rudder stub, then the second will be glued to the first and to the rudder stub. Then the whole thing will be shaped with a thinner trailing edge, glassed, and then the hinge pieces can be cast with four layers of woven rovings and mat.
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My plan was to make red clam sauce, but I was foiled again by the young Russian who had leftover pad thai from a local (nothing is local to this place) restaurant. He said it was too spicy to eat, but after adding a couple cups of boiled rice it was fine.
