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. |
23 April 2024 | St Marys, GA
D4 Launchie
The laptop pooped the bed, so I have to scurry around with alternatives. Not as bad as typing on the phone.
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.
Proa Design Pt V
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The outrigger float that came out too small would have to be replaced and in order to use the Hulls design software to create a new float design, I had to find out why the scale came out wrong. There is a disclaimer that the Hull software doesn't work properly with “some” printers. I tried redesigning and printing. The scale came out wrong and the shape had large wiggles in it. There is a suggestion to use a CAD program, export the design as a DXF file, and print from the CAD program. I had previously used a freeware program from Bentley to view DXF files and it had a print function.
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First I had to find out why the scale changed or didn't change on the designs from the Hull application. I found that using the rescale function would change some parameters on the drawing page, but the table of offsets in the data section wouldn't change. Perhaps the “lock bulkheads in Z position” effects this change. When I did that and when I drag and dropped the length on the drawing, the table of offsets changed. The file was saved, checking the DXF box in the save menu, and then loaded into the Bentley viewer. The tabloid printer was used and the shapes printed out with no swiggles and the scale measures out correctly. Now the model can be rebuilt with the proper sized outrigger and we can test it when the weather improves.
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The picture is of the printout and the Bentley program on the laptop computer.
