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.
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Recent Blog Posts
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.

Bonhomme Richard pt. III

18 December 2016 | St. Marys, GA
Capn Andy/Cold Fall Weather
I had promised Richard I would include his catamaran dinghy in the blog and post about it while he builds it. Well he has been at it full steam and is getting ready to paint the hulls, while I've neglected to take the series of photos necessary to document the build.
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Here is a photo of Richard prior to glassing one of the hulls. Afterwards he did some tests and decided to use 4 oz. cloth in 5 layers to cover the bottom of the hulls, which is a foam build up with a nice vee bottom shape. One problem he encountered was air bubbles forming under the glass due to gases expelled as the hull heated up in the warm sun. He solved that problem by injecting epoxy into the air bubble voids with a syringe. He had to drill tiny holes, one in each air bubble. I think he was exaggerating when he said there were 600 bubbles. Maybe not.
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We did some research on how tight a corner fiberglass can bend and one answer by Chris Kulczycki was "about 1/4 inch radius, the diameter of a fountain pen or small cigar". A tighter radius, or no radius, causes the glass to lift if it can't bend around the corner.
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