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.
01 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA
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17 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
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26 October 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
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04 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
03 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
03 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
Recent Blog Posts
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 [...]

26 January 2024 | St. Marys, GA

Zen and Bike Maintenance

Eloisa rolled into the boatyard after a long drive down from the mountains. It was getting cold and isolated up there. I had a nasty toothache and we went to Southern River Walk. Bleu, her black American cocker was showing a bit of plumpness. I had had a sandwich and some wine already, so I didn’t [...]

Nina and Pinta at St. Marys

18 April 2017 | St. Marys, GA
Capn Andy/Warm Spring
When I received the various parts, hulls, etc. that became Kaimu, it was on Good Friday the 13th back in ‘01. Easter Sunday ‘02 found me in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, up the mast and repairing the main halyard. A biplane came in over the treetops on shore and buzzed me while I was up there. It was early in the morning. I was wondering what that pilot was doing out early on Easter morning. He was probably wondering what I was doing up on that mast.
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This Easter I was getting over the flu and next door they were getting their catamaran lowered from its raised position, which enabled them to repair the rudders and bottoms of the keels. Now in the lowered position they were ready to launch, and eager. In my last post I provided a link to photos of the crane lift, but somehow they were sorted out backwards, so it makes more sense to look at the photo album from the end. It starts with the crane approaching, and so forth.
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I needed to put a coat of arctic white on the epoxied wooden portlight bezel, but that wouldn’t take much paint of all. A small batch of paint is about 5-6 ounces, which is about a fifth of a quart. A quart is said to cover 100 sq ft, so a small batch should cover about 20 sq ft. I added the two forward compartment hatches to the paint job. They are about 4 sq ft each side, top and bottom, so the pair of hatches would need 16 sq ft of paint. It looked like a perfect match. I mixed up a batch and began painting, first the inside of the first hatch, then the topside, then the inside of the second hatch, and what?, I was running out of paint after only 12 sq ft of painting. This also has implications on the amount of paint needed to paint the hull sides. 660 sq ft.
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The replica ships of Columbus came to St. Marys at Lang’s Marina and we toured them and took a bunch of pictures which are uploaded to Flickr at:
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728395@N03/albums/72157680953779440
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If you put your cursor over a picture it will reveal a descriptive file name, such as, “Pinta view forward”. I tried to get photos of every rigging detail. The Nina replica has been called the most authentic recreation of a Spanish caravelle.
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