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.
Mast Wiring
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The wire was laid out along the mast, from head to base with additional 10 feet for the anchor light and VHF antenna wire, and from the steaming light and spreader light. The wire was all black color, so each pair was labeled with tape and magic marker. Pull strings were run from each light location into the mast and out the base. The longest runs, anchor and VHF, were fed into the mast and pulled along while 3 cable ties were zipped on every two feet at 120 degrees from each other, untrimmed. This trio of ties keeps the wire bundle together and prevents clanging against the inside of the mast. When the steaming light and spreader light wires reached the base of the mast, about 20 feet of anchor/VHF had already been drawn in. The pull strings for the spreader and steaming lights were tied onto the wires and now four pull strings were tugged to pull the bundle further along. When the wires were nearly all the way run there was an obstruction and they wouldn't budge. I lost the pull strings for the anchor light and the spreader light.
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The obstruction was cleared after quite a struggle. The technique that worked was twisting the end of the wire bundle at the mast base. After several turns there was a noticeable “pop” and the bundle was free to move again. It was possible to regain the ends of the anchor and steaming light wires using a “grabber” tool. Also a short piece of stainless cable strand was bent like a crochet hook to help. When all the wiring was in place it was time to knock off.
