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. |
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.
15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA
D4 Dinghy Day One
A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.
#1 Beam Pt V
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After fairing and painting the beam it was time to organize the switcheroo. First, the beam had to be removed from the sawhorses to remove weight from the foredeck. Then the old #4 beam was repositioned slightly closer to the forward end of the foredeck. Then webbing straps were hung from it down below the foredeck. The 10 foot pipe used as support for the #4 beam job was used under the foredeck and hung in the webbing straps. After the slack was taken up, the front of the foredeck now had support and it could be unbolted from the beam that was to be removed. One more step was unbolting the two anchor chocks from the beam and moving them out of the way.
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The beam bracket caps were unbolted, then the large bolts that pass through the beam were removed. The forward ramp came away from the beam and was held up by the inner forestay. The porta power was used to lift the beam out of its brackets a few inches. As it came up higher it was apparent that the crossdeck was still attached to it, by lots of old glue and paint. This happened back aft on beam #4 and it suddenly released with a loud noise. This time it was firmly attached and I could see a crack in the junction of the crossdeck and the old beam. I hammered on it with a wrecking bar and pried on it with a crow foot bar. Then there was more hammering and prying and suddenly it dropped about 4 inches abruptly. It was a hot day with high humidity and I just left everything where it was, done for the day. The beam was now free of any attachments and ready to come out, and the new beam was ready to go in.
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The picture is of the beam work, the bracket caps are ready to come off.
