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 [...]

Rigging

15 May 2017 | st marys, ga
Capn Andy/Warm Spring
With the topsides painting completed work could commence on the rig. The chainplates were reattached to the hulls and now fittings for the stays had to be sussed out. The lashings of the past will be no more, I will be going back to turnbuckles with only lashings on one upper shroud to isolate it from the rest of the rig for use as a SSB antenna. The other upper shroud has an eye pinned to a tang on the mast and the other end is an eye shackled directly to the chainplate with a long D shackle. The lower shrouds are already pinned to the mast and the lower ends will be cut to fit and terminated with swageless forks by Blue Wave of Denmark. Each lower will get a turnbuckle with toggles and pins to attach to the chainplates and the swageless forks. The running backstays will be as before, pinned to the mast and terminated in 6;1 purchase shackled to their chainplates. Up forward the new headstay is increased to 3/8“, pinned to a Y shaped pair of tangs on the mast and terminated with a Norseman swageless stud that fits a turnbuckle which is pinned by a large shackle’s pin. The large bow shackle holds the two inboard eyes of the bridle, of 3/8“ wire, and the outboard ends are shackled to tangs on the bow crosstube fittings. The inner forestay remains at 3/8“, pinned to Y shaped pair of tangs on the mast and terminated at the bottom by a ;Blue Wave swageless fork which is pinned to a large turnbuckle which is pinned to the inner forestay bridle which is 1/2“ stainless rod which is backed by nylock nuts in the ends of the bow crosstube and the inner ends terminate in a heavy stainless fitting again with nylock nuts, and the fitting provides an eye for the adjusting turnbuckle.
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The old rig had the staysail tacked to an eye at the center of beam #1 and the sail overlapped the main. Now it will be tacked forward at the bow crosstube and will be club footed with the club boom sheeted to a short traveler just in front of the #2 beam, with a traveler car that will make this sail self tending. The old RF genoa topsail will be replaced with a yankee topsail hanked on, or a large genoa for light airs, also hanked on. No more roller furler. It is expected to not cause a great deal of extra foredeck work while sailing, just the difference of hoisting a sail rather than rolling it out.
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The photo is of the trawler that dwarfs Kaimu.
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