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.
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Recent Blog Posts
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 [...]

Days of Skegs and Rudders

29 February 2016 | St. Mary's, GA
Capn Andy/Clear and Mild
Freezing to death in the morning, out of propane, thus no heater, forced to use DIY alcohol stove, but success, hot breakfast, and a day that warms up quickly into the 60‘s.
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A quick bit of work on the rudder and skegs, one side of the rudder is primed with raw epoxy and the skegs are fiberglassed on one side. A couple of small blocks that will become the rudder head on the other rudder are primed with epoxy.
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A desperate shopping trip gets the needed propane and some groceries. A visit to a highly rated local restaurant is a disappointment because it is closed that day. We go to a Vietnamese/Japanese place that has a piece of paper on the door that says, “No Sushi until Further Notice”. Hmm, that doesn’t sound good. But we are hungry and aren’t getting sushi, we are getting the soup. It was pretty good and no sickness overnight.
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The next day the epoxy is set and ready for same treatment other side of all the above objects. The previous fiberglass job needs the edges of the glass trimmed and faired so that the new layer can overlap, forming a double layer around all the edges of the skegs. The multitool with scraper blade does the trimming of the excess glass and a package of 80 grit flap grinding wheels came in for the dremel tool, so that was used to fair the edges of the glass. The flap wheels came in a package of 10 from China and actually arrived sooner than expected.
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The priming and glassing went as before. The weather is predicted to remain advantageous to completing a lot of the epoxy work in the warmer parts of the days ahead.
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A replacement LCD screen came in for the masculine black point and shoot camera. I had read online that screen replacement is a piece of cake. It turned into a very tedious little job. Everything had to be just so, but it worked and the black spot problem was gone. The picture was taken with it and it is of the rudder and skeg parts just before glassing and priming. The fiberglass to be used has been cut to the correct size and then rolled up ready to be applied.
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