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.
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Recent Blog Posts
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.

Finaly Seeing the Light

21 October 2013 | Bodkin Inlet/Chesapeake Bay
Capn Andy/chilly fall
Captain Neal was supposed to leave on Saturday, when we went out on Kaimu, but his boat was still tied to the dock when we returned. Of course it wouldn't make much sense to try to sail down the bay when the wind was coming up the bay strongly from the SSE. A better course would be to run up the bay to the canal to the Delaware, then close reach down the Delaware to Cape Henlopen. The wind was forecast to shift to NW and it would be an offshore broad reaching wind down the Delaware coast. If he had left a day earlier, there was also a NW wind, and he could have broad reached down the bay, then close reached on Saturday's south wind out of Chesapeake bay, then had the NW shift to clear the Virginia Capes.
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The comment about the last photo was, “Where is the Cape May light?”, so here is a photo of the light. Of course the moon in the last photo was to the west, not over Cape May, but over the Delaware shore of Delaware Bay.
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