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.
Roots of Surf
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Sleepless in Kahala. I felt tight and sore. I woke up at about 0230 hours and spent the rest of the night letting sore limbs recuperate, but it was hard to get back to sleep. I would doze off and then suddenly awake when I moved a little bit, there would be a pain somewhere. But I did sleep a little bit.
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I was up and making coffee and enjoying p-nut butter on stale baguette. Moving up and down the beautiful koa stairway was kind of slow, minimize the pain. The rest of the day was spent trying to disguise obvious old age syndrome. “Do you want to try some kite surfing?”. No thanks, not today, I didn’t bring my swim suit (because it doesn’t fit anymore).
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My daughter and her friend flew in on separate planes and we had a combination vegie/beef dinner. The next day we were in the tourist Mecca of Honolulu, Ala Moana, and the conspirators had me standing by in various boutiques, also a seaside lunch place with live music. They bought a swim suit for me, so I would have to swim in the green swimming pool after all.
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We were on a mission to find the last hotel room of Jane Stanford, socialite and heiress, who was poisoned at the Ala Moana Surfrider hotel with strychnine, and no one was ever charged with the crime. No one seemed to know anything about this scandal, although in the hotel’s own history room, a framed newspaper full page about the killing was on the wall. Not so obvious to the casual tourist, but we found it there. We never found the room, although we know the room number. Very Strange.
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Another hotel, the Royal Hawaiian, gave us several photo ops with its pink exterior, and this cropped photo. There were more touristy photo ops, a mother seal and her pup on a protected area of the beach, Duke Kahanamoku’s statue, hotel bearing his name, and outrigger canoe models and sculptures. I hate tourist stuff, but this is the original surf clique and the remnants of the Waikiki watermen and their outrigger canoes. The holy mount is a beach.
