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. |
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.
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.
Hanauma Panauma
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We went on a snorkeling trip to Hanauma Bay and the place was closed out with a full parking lot when we got there. We continued on down the coast and I was able to photograph near Sandy Beach. On the way back we were able to get into Hanauma Bay and by the time we made it down the escarpment to the beach we had spent 2 1/2 hours. Not efficient.
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Hanauma Bay is called the best snorkeling site in Oahu, and it has lots of reef fish and corals easily accessible to the tourist snorkeler. What we have there is a Catch 22, the little bay is susceptible to the effects of hoards of tourists, so the state has highly regulated access as well as created a tourist infrastructure. The roads, parking facilities, and access path down to the beach allow crowds to get down there and potentially destroy the reef. If the roads were unimproved, parking facilities nonexistent, and the path to the beach left as a path, perhaps it would be self regulating and also not cost the public so much in taxes.
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I took a bunch of photos and then later tried to make panoramas using Pandora app that runs in Linux. I will post the results of my attempts. This post has one of them, the view from the beach at Hanauma.
