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. |
23 April 2024 | St Marys, GA
D4 Launchie
The laptop pooped the bed, so I have to scurry around with alternatives. Not as bad as typing on the phone.
17 April 2024 | St Marys, GA
Dinghy Skeg
I was suffering with what seemed like a cold and also had allergy symptoms. I awoke and felt fine. The green pollen that was coating everything was gone. Maybe it will return.
07 April 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Clammy Hands
Items came in from TEMU, the Chinese cut rate retailer. One was a nice little drone that cost about twelve and a half dollars. It looked like an easy thing to play with while I coughed and sneezed. I was fighting a summer cold, even though it is not summer elsewhere, it seems like it here. A nice [...]
02 April 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Sun Doggie
After laminating the cedar strips onto the gunwales of the dinghy I found the screws I used wouldn’t come out. The epoxy had seized them. The screw heads were stripped so I cut a straight slot in the heads with the cut off wheel. The cedar smoked when the screw heads got red hot. I could remove [...]
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.
Sail Away
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One item that needed to be addressed was the mainsail. The battens were either missing or splintered. The batten pockets were chafed through where the round rod battens came in contact with the shrouds or running backstays. The sailcloth would be pinched between the batten and shroud and the chafe would be in a single line along the batten. In some places this line would be chafed right through, as clean a cut as scissors. Where I had glued on seat belt material to protect against the chafe, the glue would sometimes glue the batten pocket closed.
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I wanted to change from round rod battens to flat battens, which would help with the chafe problem, but although the batten cars at the mast and the battens straps at the leach of the sail could accommodate flat battens, the batten pockets that had been glued wouldn’t allow flat battens to pass through.
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The rigger at the boatyard gave me a reference to a sailmaker who had fixed his batten problem at a reasonable cost, so I called the sailmaker and made arrangements to bring the mainsail. I took the sail off the boom and folded it. It was a large bundle. In the Miata it took up so much room that I would not be able to drive. A couple who had a boat in the yard were going to the sailmaker to pick up their jib sail, so I offered to chip in for the ride and bring my sail along. The trip was about an hour and the sailmaker, Wind Dancer Sails, made a very reasonable estimate for all the work that had to be done. I let him know that I would be away in Hawaii and back in about a month, so there was no rush to do the job.
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The photo is of thunderstorm clouds West of St. Marys along route I-95.
