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.
Irma Dwindles
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The forecasts of the TV news shows are alarming and represent the worst case scenario most of the time, they are based on the upper limits of the data. However, conditions in South Florida are very scary and the policy of trying to scare us even more with extreme forecasts has a beneficial effect of getting the reluctant to get up and evacuate. I believe the NOAA forecasts also have a touch of the extreme. It is better to err on the upside than under.
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So, the current conditions at Sunday noon here in St. Marys is NE 15 or so, moderate to heavy rain. Not unusual conditions for a place that sees violent thunderstorms regularly over the hot and humid summer.
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The image is from wunderground.com, their hurricane and tropical storm section from their severe weather tab. The update at 1700 gave a 1 percent probability of winds of 50 mph at Kings Bay Naval Base at the peak of the storm tonight and Monday. Probability of 34 knots was about 1 in 3. The lurking problem is storm surge, which can persist even when the storm is declining. The high tide is after midnight, so maybe I will stay up.
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According to the forecast, the storm will dwindle to category 1, then tropical depression as it approaches the Florida panhandle. It will then be about 150 miles West of us here in St. Marys.
