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.
04 February 2025 | St. Marys, GA
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Recent Blog Posts
04 February 2025 | St. Marys, GA

Bisque with a Twist

The cold spell, arctic outburst, polar vortex, whatever, left me with pork chops and other ingredients for another batch of bean soup. After surviving potential ice skating on the swimming ladder and interminable snow melt dripping on me in my moldy freezing bunk, it was time to cautiously figure out [...]

22 January 2025 | St. Marys, GA

Snow Daze

I picked up a couple closet poles at Loews. These are the mast and sprit for the dinghy sail rig. Hardwood, probably oak. 1 3/8” diameter, 8 feet long. The plan from Maartens calls for 2” diameter spruce, but that is for an unstayed mast. I will be staying the mast on both the D4 dinghy here [...]

15 January 2025 | St. Marys, GA

Bean Soup I

If I am not taking pictures or writing it could be that I am depressed, but also there is a cycle in creativity, unless you are a manic artist. It seems sometimes that the extremists are the ones who get anything done. You have to play life like a hockey game, give it your all, then take a restful [...]

06 January 2025 | St. Marys, GA

Wishing for Sumner

The trouble with the pork chops is that they constituted a new form of substance, very good if you want to go on a diet without pork chops. Not so good for me. I don’t know how these things became tempered like steel, the spanish rice with them should have dissolved some of that iron.

24 December 2024 | St. Marys, GA

Shrimp Poke Bowl

I enjoyed the last of the stuffed cabbage. The fridge was now bare of leftovers except for bean soup which was in the little freezer. I decided to make a clam florentine soup derived from a shrimp recipe.

16 December 2024 | St. Marys, GA

Storm and Stuffed Cabbage

Not my clowns, not my circus. That is an amusing phrase, especially now. RFK jr in charge of health. The clowns come in, send in the clowns. It seems to be a recurring theme. If you put clowns in charge of government agencies, then you can take them down. I rant, but government is not a single [...]

Sad News as Winter Approaches

14 December 2010 | Bodkin Creek
captn andy/wintery
OK, we've not been keeping up. Why the big lag in blogs? The plan was to post one in July, but then we were busy with a heavy work schedule and it got delayed. Then I found out I could retire if I wanted. A bit of planning tied things up right through August and September, with me retiring the end of September.



I finished the deck table during August and September. Another project was to assemble a wind turbine generator. In October it was full time work on the boat with only a few days of freelance engineering work at my old employer. The electrical work on the starboard hull was now begun. The batteries were located under a dinette seat which required enlarging the space. Both starboard solar panels were lead to the charge controller with permanent wiring and the batteries were fed to the inverter with #2 cables, and to the DC panel in the pilothouse with #6 cables. The wind turbine wiring was #12 which is too light, it will have to be rewired with #6.



We went to Hawaii again for a two week visit. After returning news came that my dad had suffered a stroke and was partially parylized. Fortunately he has my sisters and brothers available to help him locally. He remained in good spirits and is continuing physical therapy. Hey, he's only 95. He drove me to the airport on my way back.



The weather suddenly became much colder with the Bodkin freezing over. It became difficult to carry on boatwork on board. We rebuilt the old Chelsea clock and barometer. A fiber abrasive rotary brush was used to take off the old laquer and corrosion from the brass. Then Flitz metal polish and a Dremel tool with cloth wheel were used to bring back the shine. It worked well. Both instruments had damage to the lens, so it was replace from my store of thin Lexan. Also a pair of Weems and Plath instruments were shined up. The old Origo alcohol stove which had burned its labels was shined up. New labels are available. All these metal items that were cleaned up and buffed to a shine were meant to be thrown away. Now I have two stoves...



The cold weather is continuing, about 15 degrees below normal. It looks like this winter is starting out rather nasty. Damage from ice and delays of boatwork are likely.



My website was taken down recently when the webhost decided to give that up and start a farm with his kids. I will add the pages from the website to this blog, one at a time, and when that is done perhaps we will have some warmer weather and some new sailing stories.
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