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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.
21 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA
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Recent Blog Posts
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.

15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Day One

A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.

11 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Redux

The inflatable (deflatable) dinghy I had bought was deteriorating. It had bottom seams separating. It is a West Marine branded dinghy made out of PVC. HH66 is the adhesive to reattach the seams. A friend had a similar problem and bought the same adhesive. I was waiting to hear from him how it worked [...]

06 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

The Clincher

We decided to go to Amelia Island for the day, probably to the beach. Our plan to cycle around on the Raleigh 20’s seemed like a bad idea, Bleu can’t keep up with a bicycle for very long and when he quits he quits. So we would walk, where?, Fort Clinch State Park. She has a forever pass for Florida [...]

St Marys Thanksgiving

25 November 2017 | st marys, ga
Capn Andy/Chilly Winter Weather
Here again is the link to the flickr albums of the delivery trips, including this last one to Gulfport:
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728395@N03/albums/72157689480153634
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I am now back in St. Marys, it is night and there is no one about. It is raining on and off. The road trip from Gulfport was made more difficult by delays of a half hour or so due to accidents and road construction. It ended up over 9 hours. At one point I took an available exit to try to find a local road to bypass a delay that had us standing still. Skipper, who did most of the driving, was angry that I had snapped like this and took over the driving and we went back into the big delay. Of course it sorted itself out right away and I felt foolish. He is the skipper, more resolute and patient.
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Now Thanksgiving has passed and a rainy chilly feast was held at Seagle’s Hotel, which is a bar and restaurant in St. Marys. About a hundred people signed up for the annual dinner, put on by the townspeople for the cruising sailors who are mostly on their way South. This year the number of attendees was down, probably due to the heavily damaged waterfront. The town provides the turkeys and hams and the cruisers provide side dishes.
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The boatyard is very active this weekend with many yardbirds returning to launch and head South for their winter cruising. It is not the best time for one of the two bathrooms to malfunction, but that’s what happened. Now there is only one bathroom available for the crowd to use. Pick a number.
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The photo is from the last leg of our recent delivery. I thought it was possible to right click on any photo in the uploaded album and save it, but it turns out you have to use flickr’s download function which includes selection of file size, so you can actually download the original photo if you choose the largest file size.
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