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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 [...]

Paint

13 October 2016 | St. Marys, GA
Capn Andy/Warm Summer
So far I hadn’t been aboard Trillium since the hurricane hit and now I was looking for my prescriptions to renew a couple of medications for cholesterol and blood pressure. They must be on Trillium, they didn’t turn up anyplace on shore. I paddled out with the kayak, which I was getting more proficient at, and was shocked to see a foot of water in the cockpit. I looked in the cabin and there was about a foot of water in there also. Until now I had thought the little boat had braved the storm without any damage. It looked like the cockpit scuppers had clogged with debris and the water rose until it started to pour into the starboard cockpit locker, which is open to the bottom of the boat, drains into the bilge, and then can rise in the cabin. If the storm had continued longer, the boat could have sunk.
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I bailed out 15-20 gallons of water and began sorting out soggy cardboard and the contents of the boxes that were in the cabin. One bag of clothing was soaked, but the others were still dry, protected by the garbage bags they were stowed in. The important papers, including my prescriptions, were dry in a plastic bin sitting on a shelf in the cabin. I grabbed what I needed and left the boat, now higher on her lines, and returned to shore.
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Along with the prescription order I ordered more arctic white paint from the online store in New Jersey. I used the smart phone but didn’t receive a confirmation of the order. I emailed the store asking if the order went through, but there was no reply. I called and found out that he, who was the order person, was out of the office and would return the next day. This made me think his business was a one man operation, maybe with a little help. He can be reached online if you search trinity1945. His paint is good, not probably the best. You get what you pay for, and his paint is relatively cheap. It is two part acrylic urethane.
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The Brits next door had their paint woes with paint that might be the most expensive on the market. It made a nice glossy finish, but they had adhesion problems. The paint is tricky to use and humidity and temperature have to be factored into the drying time. The rule seems to be, the better the paint, the more difficult it is to use. If you use old fashioned oil based enamel, just brush it on and it will slowly dry, no problem. With modern catalyzed paint, the substrate has to be carefully prepared and in some cases the paint cannot be brushed on, it has to be sprayed. My paint can be brushed or sprayed, with some attention to added reducer, which is a thinner. I found good results using a paint pad made from sections of a phenolic paint roller skin.
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I finally ordered my paint using the computer and not the smart phone and got a confirmation. This is another delay because I can’t finish my beam pyramids until they are prefinished. That includes priming with epoxy, applying a coat of heavily thickened epoxy with microsperes and colloidal silica (50/50), and then a top 2 coats of arctic white. Then the gluing surfaces are lightly sanded to remove any paint residue and then they are glued and screwed down on the tops of the beams. After the screw holes are filled with an thickened epoxy mix and the beam tops are faired into the longitudinal mast beam, there will be a touch up painting with arctic white. Then we can move on to more work on the decks and cabin tops, installing the new solar panels, rebedding sail tracks, installing winches, and finally getting the mast and sail rig back in place.
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It is a lot of detail work coming up and it will take some time. I feel like it is the downhill part of the whole project. The final part will be doing the topsides of the hulls, including some sheathing repair, and then doing the bottoms which will need repair of divots taken out by the jetty, and bottom paint.
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The image comes from saatchiart.com, when I searched “paint problems”. A number of interesting works resulted, this one is called “Paint”, acrylic on wood, by Muriel Soriano of France.


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