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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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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 [...]

Panasonic CF-C1 Toughbook

13 May 2017 | st marys, ga
Capn Andy/Warm Spring
Here’s a shot of the little Panasonic Toughbook CF-C1. These can be had, used, online for less than a hundred bucks. If you are lucky, you can get one that still has its hard drive. This one cost me about $80 and came with a 320 GiB drive. The wifi wasn’t operative, but I have an external powered antenna that worked fine with this computer. It had Windows on it, password protected, but I planned on loading it up with the latest Navigatrix operating system, which is based on the Ubuntu linux operating system.
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The navigatrix site has a support section that can help with the installation. This computer doesn’t have a DVD/CD drive, so burning an installation disk wouldn’t work. Instead a USB stick was used and “USB HDD” was selected in BIOS as the boot device. Installation takes a little while. One peculiarity was that when I entered my password during the install, I must have hit the caps lock button, because when I later tried to start it up and login, I had to turn on caps lock. There is another peculiar thing with the num lock button. When the computer boots up, it turns on num lock just before the login page comes up. You have to turn it off. So I have two buttons to address during login.
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The CF-C1 that I have has an Intel Core i5 processor and came with 4 GiB of RAM. It seems to run a lot faster than the older Core Duo machine it will be replacing.
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The old CF-52 is clunkier and actually not as rugged as this little Toughbook. It has liquid resistant keyboard and is said to withstand a 30 inch drop (like from the table to the floor) without interrupting the operating system. It’s not as rugged as the Getac B300X, but it weighs less than 3 pounds and the Getac is around 8.
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It has a touch sensitive screen and can be converted to a tablet by rotating the screen and closing it with the screen showing. There is a built in stylus and I found it useful when in the normal laptop mode to quickly select things instead of moving the cursor around with the touchpad.
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It has a brighter than ordinary screen for daylight viewing, but it is nowhere near as bright as the Getac, which is truly daylight viewable. When it comes time to take the laptop to a marina lounge, this CF-C1 will be the one to carry, not the Getac.
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