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
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 [...]

Boat Name and Logo

24 April 2017 | St. Marys, GA
Capn Andy/Warm Spring
The port outboard hull side received a coat of arctic white with a little dark blue pigment in it. I’m not sure how much difference it will make compared to the cabins and deck which are untinted. The crease in the hull at the sheer automatically creates a different shade of color between the cabin sides and the hull sides.
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I applied most of the paint using a 3/16“ nap roller from Lowes. This left a surface with tiny bubbles which I hope will smooth out. Maybe not.
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3 cups of epoxy was enough to prime the whole hull side, but it began to go off when I got to the stern and made a rough finish there that had to be sanded smooth before painting. Next time I will mix up two batches of 1 1/2 cups, one at a time. The paint is mixed in a small batch with about 5 1/2 oz. of total mix including 1/2 oz hardener, 1 oz reducer, and 4 oz. of paint. Mixing it this way for an entire hull side would be tedious, but I had to use my mixing measurers, ones that I know won’t dissolve in this paint, which attacks most plastics. A paper cup looses its bottom with it. So, I mixed a double batch of paint, or about 11 oz. which is a bout a cup and a half. It did not cover as well as the epoxy and I needed about 3 double batches to do the hull side.
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It is reassuring that this hull side was the worst of them all and needed a lot of repair and fairing. Getting it to this point, only needed another coat of paint (I hope), gives me the feeling that this project does have an ending and it’s not as far away as I thought.
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The internet DIY boat lettering people, http://doityourselflettering.com/, had sent me a proof with Kaimu’s boatname, hailing port, and the Wharram logo. I thought having the hailing port in gold would be better, but after looking at the proof decided to stay with black lettering. I had them remove the comma between Norwalk and CT and ordered the lettering. The logo goes on the bow, name and hailing port on the stern.

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