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. |
15 April 2018 | st marys, ga
Hyper Collage
I said I would look for Mel’s hole and it’s on wikipedia at:
14 April 2018 | st marys, ga
Goodbye Art Bell
The work on Kaimu was delayed by the little "20 hour" dinghy project. I was hustling along, but careful not to make any mistakes. Some were saying they hadn't seen me working like this. I knew I was trying to make up time lost, but fortunately, my normal pace doesn't have to be accelerated that much [...]
05 April 2018 | st marys, ga
D4 at Rest
After 3 coats of gloss white had been applied to the dinghy hull I left it to dry while we went out for burgers at the gas station restaurant. The hull was dry to the touch when we returned and I removed the masking tape, turned the dinghy upright and removed the masking tape and plastic from the seats. [...]
04 April 2018 | st marys, ga
D4 Paint Job
After the interior of the dinghy got its last coat of epoxy, the foam pieces that fill the voids under the seats were forced into place. One of the bulkheads that is the aft seat riser for the midships seat was bowed inward and the foam pieces forced it out straight. Good. Now the foam pieces had [...]
29 March 2018 | st marys, ga
Superfoiling and D4 dinghy
My title for the previous post implied that there would be something about the superfoilers who raced their final regatta of the season over the weekend. I thought I had put something in the blog post, but it was not there, so here is a part recap of the regatta on Australian Sunday, our Saturday.
Nina and Pinta at St. Marys
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This Easter I was getting over the flu and next door they were getting their catamaran lowered from its raised position, which enabled them to repair the rudders and bottoms of the keels. Now in the lowered position they were ready to launch, and eager. In my last post I provided a link to photos of the crane lift, but somehow they were sorted out backwards, so it makes more sense to look at the photo album from the end. It starts with the crane approaching, and so forth.
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I needed to put a coat of arctic white on the epoxied wooden portlight bezel, but that wouldn’t take much paint of all. A small batch of paint is about 5-6 ounces, which is about a fifth of a quart. A quart is said to cover 100 sq ft, so a small batch should cover about 20 sq ft. I added the two forward compartment hatches to the paint job. They are about 4 sq ft each side, top and bottom, so the pair of hatches would need 16 sq ft of paint. It looked like a perfect match. I mixed up a batch and began painting, first the inside of the first hatch, then the topside, then the inside of the second hatch, and what?, I was running out of paint after only 12 sq ft of painting. This also has implications on the amount of paint needed to paint the hull sides. 660 sq ft.
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The replica ships of Columbus came to St. Marys at Lang’s Marina and we toured them and took a bunch of pictures which are uploaded to Flickr at:
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728395@N03/albums/72157680953779440
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If you put your cursor over a picture it will reveal a descriptive file name, such as, “Pinta view forward”. I tried to get photos of every rigging detail. The Nina replica has been called the most authentic recreation of a Spanish caravelle.
