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. |
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 [...]
17 November 2024 | St. Marys, GA
Red and Bleu
The 11 hour drive to St. Marys was punctuated by a couple of traffic jams, the last one occurring right at the exit for Laurel Island Parkway just North of Kingsland where the big submarine base is located. I chose to exit there and avoid the jam, although I would be on local roads for the last few [...]
31 October 2024 | Somers Cove, Crisfield, MD
Departure
I had bought a package of meatloaf meat, a mixture of beef, pork, and veal, because it was on manager’s sale. That meant it had to be cooked right away. I didn’t really have a plan for this meat. I ended up making it into hamburger mix and fried 4 cheeseburgers, one of which I had for breakfast [...]
#4 Beam Pt. III
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The crossdeck support frame is a lattice of aluminum channel welded together, powder coated, and bolted to the crossbeams. Plywood deck panels are bolted to the support frame. To remove the #4 crossbeam, the crossdeck frame had to be unbolted from the beam. It is now supported by the temporary heavy gauge pipe. The bolts were well bedded into the beam and crossdeck frame, and took quite an effort to remove. These were large bolts and a 3 foot pipe extension was necessary on the socket wrench. Once the bolts could move, they were run out with an electric drill with a socket adapter.
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After the bolts were removed, the only thing holding the crossdeck and engine box in place was residual paint and epoxy. These started to release once the bolts were out of there, and there was a creaking, crunching sound. This was not like cutting a limb off a tree while sitting on the limb, but it had that element of asking “what if?”. If the temporary support gave way, we would be dumped into the Bodkin, engine and all. The support did hold, and the crossdeck and engine box settled to a level about 1 ½ inches lower.
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Now the beam could be lifted out of its troughs. The porta power has an attachment that can wedge into a narrow space, then expand when pumped up. It was placed under the beam at the gunwale and lifted the beam a few inches at a time.
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The picture is of the old beam being lifted above the cross deck. The cracks are the result of moisture infiltrating the beam, causing it to swell, and cracking the glass/epoxy coating. This beam will be flipped on its side to serve as an 18 ½ foot work table on which the new beam will be laminated.
