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.
Panoramic Hinge
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I went shopping for 1" diameter pipe to use as a form for the rudder hinges. The hinges are made by wrapping heavy fiberglass around a round form and glassing it to either the rudder or the stern of the hull. These hinges fit together just like ordinary door hinges with a heavy stainless rod through them, just like the hinge pin of a door hinge. There is one short pin at the top of the rudder and a longer one at the bottom. The pins have to be perfectly aligned with each other so that the rudder will not bind. The total length from the lowest hinge piece on the tip of the skeg to the topmost hinge piece at the top of the sternpost is about 8 feet. I was looking for a long piece of pipe to use as a form but the plastic pipe had too large a diameter.
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Back at the boatyard I found some long pieces of 1" prop shaft in their stock in their workshop. It turned out these pieces still weren't long enough. Perhaps I could devise a plan to fasten the original hinge pins together with a temporary piece of something to keep them in alignment while casting the new hinge pieces.
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Meanwhile I tried out the panorama feature of the point and shoot camera. This mode stitches together up to three pictures shot one after the other. A "plus sign" marker on the viewfinder frame helps line up the edges of adjacent frames, then the camera processes them together to make the panoramic shot. It then asks if you want to save it or discard.
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The picture is a panorama of the swamp at the boatyard.
