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.
Preparations in Rodney Bay
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The water tanks were filled which took a lot longer than expected. A diver dove the bottom and said he cleaned the prop and bow thruster. We began singling up lines, started the engine, and prepared to swap ends at the dock. We noticed the bow thruster had little effect on keeping the bow at the dock. We suspected the diver didn’t do as he said. It turned out he wasn’t the diver sent by the dockmaster, but here everybody knows each other and the diver was contacted. He will return to finish up any spots he may have missed.
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The dock lines were tied in a peculiar way and if you take into account the high winds that did come through here in the past couple of months, it explains the doubled and tripled lines, worn, and knots jammed by great loads.
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Sailing gear, harnesses, jack lines, and life jackets were dug out of the lockers in the cabin. The owner and his father arrived with more gear that had to be stowed, tools, more jerry cans, and Gorilla tape. The tool locker near the nav station was full to the brim.
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The route programmed into the chart plotter was modified to end up at Jolly Harbour in Antigua instead of English Harbour. A contact there had said English Harbour was shut down for the season, probably unlikely, but he was there to let us know. Jolly Harbour would put us in a slip, anchoring is not allowed.
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The dockmaster stopped by again and we all discussed the clearing out procedure, topping off the fuel, where the fuel dock was, and the timing of buying supplies duty free after clearing out but before actually leaving port.
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The photo is of the boat’s cockpit and her two steering wheels, port and starboard helms.
