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.
Irma Update
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I hate trying to write using the cell phone. So, this will be a brief update.
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The damage in the boatyard consists of one boat losing a spreader from the main mast due to a tree limb falling on it. A power boat at the floating dock sank the day after the storm, but that could have been prevented if they had been paying attention. A motor yacht on a mooring broke free and drifted off to the causeway. Fortunately the wind direction sent it inland and not out to sea.
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The town of St Marys had a catastrophic tidal flooding that destroyed Lang's Marine and most of the boats there. Ironically Lang's had been on the upsurge of business after hurricane Matthew when Fernandina was destroyed.
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I was worried about little Trillium, the C&C 24, but it was too rough to venture out and go aboard. Today, 2 days after the storm, I was able to kayak out and go aboard. There was no water in the cockpit and no water down below. The photo is of Trillium taken from the kayak with the cell phone. When internet is restored there will be a hurricane photo album on Flickr. It looks like my data cable is only good for charging the phone, not for tethering.
