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.
The Tree Frog Part
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Although the wind was lightening up, it looked like potentially a 48 hour passage. I ate the prepared food a little at a time, early lunch, late lunch. Then there was a wind shift.
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We now settled on a port tack with an east wind. Dark clouds were brewing and it began to spit rain. Well, I’ll just duck down below and let the lashed tiller do the work out in the rain. Then the mainsheet, which is a strange concoction of 3 purchases of block and tackles, let loose enough to throw the boat off course, running out of control. Back on deck in the rain, time for a shower anyway.
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Get the boat back on course, good boat speed. Rain stops but so does the wind. Becalmed. It is late afternoon with a big rainbow horizon to horizon.
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I change out of my wet clothing and use the wet tee shirt to mop up the cockpit cushions, wringing it out in the cockpit. The rain is dripping off of everything and the boom is peeing out of a pop rivet near the end of the boom like a roman fountain. The boom is swinging around a bit and the stream of water threatens me. My boom is trying to pee on me.
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We had made about 25 miles from Wynah Bay at an average of about 4 knots. Now there were bugs on the attack. Sand flies were back and biting, also a larger wasp like bug. Kill them. Kill them all. The flyswatter was falling apart. When it can no longer defend me, I’ll be in big bug trouble.
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There is another bug killer on board, a little tree frog, who turns up in the most unlikely places from time to time. The photo is of the frog hanging out near the corner of the transom.
