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.
Little Lost Light
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After testing the remnants of the AquaSignal masthead light it was found that the LED bulb worked but the strobe function did not. The strobe function is technically illegal in USA waters and the masthead light with optional strobe costs more than twice as much as the ordinary masthead light. I had wired the old mast to make the strobe function available if I ever decided to add the strobe pulse generator necessary for it. Now I could omit the extra wire.
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The AquaSignal series 40 light is a 10 or 25 watt 12VDC bulb and designed to dissipate that much power. The smaller series 25 uses a 10 watt festoon bulb which produces less heat. I ordered a series 25 lens that I will adapt to the series 40 base. Because we are using a low wattage LED bulb, we can use the slightly smaller and less expensive lens.
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The lens was shipped from Texas and has spent more than a week going between various postal facilities in Texas. Very unusual.
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The marine surveyor who evaluated the dismasting damage asked for us to provide an estimate from our prefered service provider, i.e. boatyard. It has been more than a month delay due to the surveyor not coming up with his own estimate and report to the insurance company. Now that the inlet is frozen and the boat covered with snow, it is difficult to have a boatyard estimator come by and prepare an estimate. I replied to the surveyor that due to this delay, the work will probably be impossible until the weather warms up and the inlet thaws out. The possibility of using the nearby marina's travel lift well depended on using it before winter set in, so getting the mast restepped becomes more difficult, probably requiring use of a boatyard in Annapolis.
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The insurance company was cc'd the reply to the surveyor and issued a settlement rather quickly. The amount was almost twice what I had estimated.
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