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.
Main Goose Neck
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Capn Neal came down to the docks and hadn't been around for a couple of weeks. In fact, most of those generous would be helpers had been gone for last couple of weeks. They didn't expect me to ask them to help with the mast, did they? Neal didn't expect any work to be done during the heat wave, so he was surprised to see the mast erect. He was working on his autopilot.
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Preparations for Summer Sailstice are underway all over the place, but it looks like Kaimu will miss it this year. Although we've made great progress and accomplished some big jobs, the engine still hasn't been run since December and hasn't been commissioned for this season, the bottom is foul, and we still have to run the main up the mast to finalize the gooseneck installation, plus the headstay, roller furler, and genoa need work, although the boat can sail without them.
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The next day was calm, so the mainsail was hoisted to the masthead to see if we had enough sail track, and also to mark the position for the gooseneck for the boom. It turned out there was plenty of track and the sail was lowered after marking the goose neck position. The picture is of the mainsail hoisted. The goose neck fitting was bolted to the mast with 1/4-20 bolts bedded in colloidal silica.
