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.
9/11 Projection
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We have to watch and wait to see if this hurricane track becomes chiseled in stone. Storms tend to wobble as they go along and their path can change a bit over time.
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Richard of Time and Tide is flying in on 9/11, the same day the hurricane is due to arrive. He will probably not be able to fly in, even if the hurricane gives a glancing blow. His boat is also blocked up on dry land.
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Others who reacted to hurricane Matthew last year and either went off seeking shelter or dug in and rode it out, are now rethinking their decisions. I am sure there are millions of people in this part of the Southeast who are doing the same.
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I had a difficult time sleeping and the news in the morning was that the hurricane had caused considerable damage to St. Maarten. Videos showed boats and cars jumbled in a wreck, houses with roofs torn off. Flooding.
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In the boatyard activity was increasing, more boats coming out of the water, more congestion in the yard. Owners who called in were employing the yard to stake down their boats with concrete balks. The buzz about where to go when the storm gets here kept running around in circles, go north, go west, or maybe even go to the west coast of Florida and go south. I said that I didn’t know what I would do until we get closer to arrival, like about 48 hours before. Last year I waited and then decided to hunker down when the storm was forecast to weaken a bit and go further offshore.
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At this time the forecast is for 50 knot northerly winds on monday afternoon, 9/11, and for low tide at about 4 pm on that day. Sounds a lot like hurricane Matthew, only higher winds. The image is from windy.com and is the projected winds on 9/11. The blue colors are the very high winds over 50 mph.
