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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
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.

15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Day One

A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.

11 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Redux

The inflatable (deflatable) dinghy I had bought was deteriorating. It had bottom seams separating. It is a West Marine branded dinghy made out of PVC. HH66 is the adhesive to reattach the seams. A friend had a similar problem and bought the same adhesive. I was waiting to hear from him how it worked [...]

06 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

The Clincher

We decided to go to Amelia Island for the day, probably to the beach. Our plan to cycle around on the Raleigh 20’s seemed like a bad idea, Bleu can’t keep up with a bicycle for very long and when he quits he quits. So we would walk, where?, Fort Clinch State Park. She has a forever pass for Florida [...]

Sail Away

14 July 2017 | st marys, ga
Capn Andy/100 degrees F.
Work has to be done early in the morning when it is around eighty degrees, then later it quickly jumps up. At 11 it’s 96. At noon it breaks 100 and at 1 104. This is a heat wave within the summer weather pattern that will normally hit the mid 90‘s with thunderstorms in the afternoon, oddly in the heat wave the thunderstorms are few. It is high pressure weather with clear skies, blazing sun, and almost no breeze to cool things off.
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One item that needed to be addressed was the mainsail. The battens were either missing or splintered. The batten pockets were chafed through where the round rod battens came in contact with the shrouds or running backstays. The sailcloth would be pinched between the batten and shroud and the chafe would be in a single line along the batten. In some places this line would be chafed right through, as clean a cut as scissors. Where I had glued on seat belt material to protect against the chafe, the glue would sometimes glue the batten pocket closed.
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I wanted to change from round rod battens to flat battens, which would help with the chafe problem, but although the batten cars at the mast and the battens straps at the leach of the sail could accommodate flat battens, the batten pockets that had been glued wouldn’t allow flat battens to pass through.
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The rigger at the boatyard gave me a reference to a sailmaker who had fixed his batten problem at a reasonable cost, so I called the sailmaker and made arrangements to bring the mainsail. I took the sail off the boom and folded it. It was a large bundle. In the Miata it took up so much room that I would not be able to drive. A couple who had a boat in the yard were going to the sailmaker to pick up their jib sail, so I offered to chip in for the ride and bring my sail along. The trip was about an hour and the sailmaker, Wind Dancer Sails, made a very reasonable estimate for all the work that had to be done. I let him know that I would be away in Hawaii and back in about a month, so there was no rush to do the job.
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The photo is of thunderstorm clouds West of St. Marys along route I-95.
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