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. |
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 [...]
02 December 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Kielbasa Sour Cream
The Thanksgiving Boater's Feast is looming around the corner and I will be involved in vegetable prep again. I forgot what I made last year for the Pot Luck Dinner and went back in the blog and saw it was my ole mole chili dogs. Geoff had made 4 gallons of gumbo and enough rice to feed an army. At [...]
Galley Slavery
The stairstep planks were varnished with two pot urethane acrylic. An electric heater was set in the galley to help cure the paint, also the cabinet door frames were removed, sanded lightly with 150 grit, and given another coat of helmsman varnish.
The sample of "Discovery" laminate that was so disappointing was given to the kitchen department at Home Depot with thanks for their help. Meanwhile the search for laminate continues. 5 more samples were ordered from Formica, 5 from Wilson Art, 6 from Pionite, and 6 from Nomar. I was looking for a blue slate stone look, not wild granite or marble.
The stairstep planks were crosscut with a circular saw. The old steps were sanded and ripped lengthwise to produce two pieces. The larger piece was about 4 1/2 inches wide and had a bullnose edge from the original step. The second piece was about 1 1/2 " X 3/4" and square section. The two pieces were glued together and then the pair were glued to the bottom of the new step. This produced a double riser with the smaller piece behind the bullnose piece. Small square bearing blocks will be glued to the sides of the stairway. Then the steps with their risers will be glued down to the original bearing blocks and the new bearing blocks. The new steps will be 3 1/4" set back from the hull side. The bottom step, which will have none of the stairway to attach to, will sit on hidden stilts. These will rest on the sole, so the bottom step can't be permanently installed until the sole is installed, and the other steps can't be installed until the galley gets its new arctic white paint.
The picture is the galley area with fiddles, cabinet door frames, tools, etc., a work in progress.
