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.
21 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA
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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 [...]

Rudder Pin Jig

25 March 2016 | St. Mary's, GA
Capn Andy/Thunderstorms and Millions of Bugs
The rigors of reaming out the rudder pin holes convinced me to try something less strenuous the next day. The weather was getting warmer and St. Marys famous bugs were swarming for attack. It's time to make bug screens. I had picked up a roll of "no-see-um" screening, with a mesh of 20X20, and now began making screen frames out of lath, using the multitool with halfmoon blade to cut the lath, and hot melt glue to stick it all together. This isn't the beautiful screen frames that Ron, the carpenter, are making, out of an exotic cedar with many coats of varnish, these are rustic rough unvarnished frames. Custom fit, though. And they do the job. The two forward hatches over the two forward twin berths were now screened and each hatchway had a new dropboard made of screening. The weather would be hot and buggy, but we would have ventilation and no bugs, I hope.
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I revisited Sara Cavanaugh's blog, Sailtoconnect, at blogger, and enjoyed her continued journey through Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, and back to Florida. Her many guests got a good dose of sailing, including a 30 knot North wind against the Gulf Stream crossing.
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Another solution to the bug problem is slathering Avon Skin so Soft all over. The bugs do not like it. I bought a wholesale amount. I will be ready for the bugs.
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I made a jig to ensure the new rudder gudgeons will be all lined up. It consists of a 2X3 with a row of PVC pipe stand offs, each one capped off with a half round piece of PVC. The PVC was chosen to have the same inside diameter as the outside diameter of the rudder pins. The 2X3 and PVC pieces were all put together with hot melt glue, a quick method of assembly. The accuracy of the line up was tested with a piece of 1" prop shaft, about 6 feet long, not long enough to hit all the test points, but long enough to ensure that they all were in line, by moving the shaft from one end of the jig to the other.
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One side of the jig has three test points and the other has five. The three correspond to the three places where the rudder gudgeons fit between the hull gudgeons. The five correspond to one position where both hulls have an intact pair of gudgeons, and two positions that will need to be tested by a pair of test points. At each test point the jig will ensure that a piece of 1" dowel will be in correct position as the build up of the hull fills in the space between the dowel piece and the hull. After the build up sets up, fiberglass woven roving will be wrapped around the dowel and alongside the hull. Three layers of roving will be used. On the rudder, cutlass bearings will be used instead of the dowels and they will remain in the build. When it is all finished, the rudder pins will be driven through the gudgeons and the rudders will be attached to the hulls.
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The picture is of the jig getting built. You can see the five test points facing up and the three facing down.
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