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.
Bracing for It
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Now I hope it doesn’t come to an end with destruction by hurricane. I texted someone with the thought that it would be hell to start all over again. Would I ever get out of this boatyard, or be forever repairing.
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The NOAA forecast seems to be the one that gives me the information I need. I can plot the coordinates of the forecast, which gives radii of wind strength from a forecast position. Because all the forecasts so far have had changes and those from Accuweather, weather.com, and wunderground.com have not been consistent. They are trying to calculate what this storm is going to do and it’s very tricky.
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I was looking for any post hurricane photos of Divi Little Bay in St. Maarten, a lovely resort where we stayed several times, also the one hurricane hole that I know of on that island, Oyster Pond. When I saw photos of Oyster Pond I was shocked to see the carnage. Hard to believe that an almost perfect hidden harbor with heights all around it could be devastated like that. Divi did have some damage, but it looked like most of the roofs were intact and a report from there said the staff and visitors weathered the storm without major injuries. How to get off that island now, with the SXM airport a mess.
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I went around the boatyard and took BEFORE pictures. Only a few people still puttering around. I will leave at midday on Sunday if necessary.
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Right now it looks like winds in the 60‘s, storm surge less than Matthew last year. But there will be a 3 NOAA updates before noon on Sunday. Then it will be time to decide.
