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.
Ice Remains
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It's called Human Inertia and it goes on all the time. It's hard for us to change our routines when other things change around us suddenly. This results in a lot of anxiety about the troubles we face and results in inappropriate planning and battles that needn't be. It's hard to find a solution to this kind of problem because we tend to be in a routine that satisfies us and we don't like to change it.
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Soon it will be warm and work can continue outside where we left off in November. The Winter routine will have to be changed to a Summer routine. Strangely, there is some resistance to this change, even though I am eager to get to work.
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Winter means spending a lot of time reading, watching television, and browsing the internet. My interest in photography got me watching the Art Wolf TV show, Travels to the Edge. It is an excellent travelogue featuring photography in ideal locations around the world. Of course he uses the best of equipment and one of his sponsors is Canon, the maker of my camera. The PBS station that carries this show locally is standard definition, not HD, which is kind of strange. This station also carries a show called Martha Stewart's Cooking School. The episodes are available on her web site. She shows all the basics such as organizing a kitchen (galley) and various cooking techniques. Watching her make ravioli makes me want to have some right away. She shows how to make pasta using a food processor or manually with a bowl and wooden spoon. Lots of good recipes on her web site.
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A hike down to the docks revealed ice still covering the inlet, but melting away. A pair of Canadian geese were exploring the edge of the ice.
