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. |
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.
Hawai'iloa Canoe
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Over the years I have tried to follow Hawai’iloa, but all the news seemed to be about Hokule’a, the first of the voyaging canoes, made out of fiberglass, not traditional wood, like Hawai’iloa. And now Hokule’a has circumnavigated and brought the aloha spirit around the world, returning to Oahu to a great public upwelling of solidarity and introspection of the Hawaii culture. Hawai’iloa was there to greet her plastic sister ship, and then she was off to a dock somewhere. Hokule’a was easily found, the television channels in Hawaii had endless footage of that canoe. I wanted to give Hawai’iloa some attention, but I was unable to find out where she was. Now I say she like other western sailors, but most of Polynesia refers to boats as “he”, male.
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My daughter was able to ask a colleague and the academics were able to locate Hawai’iloa on a dock near Sand Island, in the maritime section of Honolulu. We went there to photograph details of the boat and once we got there, Mark Kimura, one of the curators met us and showed me the canoe. He wondered why a white boy from the mainland could stand the heat, the oppressive heat of Honolulu. It may have hit 90 with a reasonable heat index. I posted the pictures on flickr at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728395@N03/albums/72157687052328946
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There were two other canoes but I didn’t feel compelled to document them. Maybe that is a mistake, not to take an opportunity when it is offered. I got what I came for.
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The image is of the pivot of the steering oar, the sweep. It looks like it can rise up enough for the sweep to be lifted off the deck, pushing the blade into the water.
