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.
The Flooding Part
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We congregated at the communal kitchen area while the wind howled in the masts of the boats in the yard. A local radio station was talking on and on about the storm and said that now the advice was to “hunker down” and not evacuate. The bridges of Jacksonville were closing one by one due to high winds. Reports from St. Augustine were that the lower parts of that town were flooded.
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The tides and the storm surge can combine to create flooding, or they can be out of time with a low tide coinciding with the storm surge, sort of canceling each other out. That would be the case for St. Marys, storm closest approach at about 8 PM coinciding with low tide.
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The afternoon high tide was coming at 2 PM and the water rose above the sea wall and began to climb into the boatyard. The wind was also increasing slowly to the 30-40 mph range. A rain band came through for about 3 hours dumping very heavy rain on us. A refrigerator was seen floating away. A dumpster floated out into the North River. Anything that could float and wasn’t tied down began to drift around the yard and into the river. The wind then took it away.
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I caught a glimpse of Trillium at anchor across the river and it was stable. There were a couple of skippers staying aboard their anchored boats. They must be having a wild ride out there.
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The boatyard manager who lived in an apartment near the water’s edge came by in his pickup truck saying he was flooded out. He drove inland to stay with a friend. The sheriff came by and said anyone who wanted to evacuate could call them and they would take you to a shelter. They said the peak of the storm would be about 8 PM.
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The photo is of the flood waters coming into the boatyard.
