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.
Sad News as Winter Approaches
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.
