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.
Halema'uma'u
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I took a lot of photos due to my forgetting how to change the auto advance setting on the shutter button. It was hard to keep it down to 2 shots per click. The daylight pictures did not show the great depth of the crater or its size. Later towards sunset the photos got more and more interesting. I was increasing the digital "film speed" while keeping the lens at f11.
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After the sun set and the clouds began to glow, it seemed that every shot was photographic art, but it must happen every day here. It is at an altitude that enhances the sunset, plus we had clouds driven by the tradewinds jammed between Kilaeua and Mauna Loa boiling up, dark, below the sun's rays, topped by the brilliant orange and red clouds high up, Mauna Loa itself a dark low shape, slate.
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With the "film speed" advanced to about 1600, shutter exposure times were several seconds long and the quality of the shot depended on maintaining the camera steady, as well as catching the glowing fumes and steam from the volcano when they were not moving rapidly. About 1 in 3 photos came out OK. When I tried to shoot the moon, it disappeared behind the high clouds.
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I put the photos in another album on flickr at;
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728395@N03/albums/72157684843541951
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These are unretouched photos, so you can click on them, get the high res, download, and crop or photoshop them.
