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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.
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Recent Blog Posts
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.

15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Day One

A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.

11 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Redux

The inflatable (deflatable) dinghy I had bought was deteriorating. It had bottom seams separating. It is a West Marine branded dinghy made out of PVC. HH66 is the adhesive to reattach the seams. A friend had a similar problem and bought the same adhesive. I was waiting to hear from him how it worked [...]

06 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

The Clincher

We decided to go to Amelia Island for the day, probably to the beach. Our plan to cycle around on the Raleigh 20’s seemed like a bad idea, Bleu can’t keep up with a bicycle for very long and when he quits he quits. So we would walk, where?, Fort Clinch State Park. She has a forever pass for Florida [...]

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09 February 2018 | st marys, ga
Capn Andy/chilly winter
I don’t know of many people who watch sailboat races, but I am one who will. The Superfoiler series from Down Under is similar to the 18 foot skiff racing. This is a professional sailing series with the boats funded by sponsorship and big name sailors hired as crew. The boats are light, sail on foils most of the time, and have a crew of 3. It looks like a weekly event and it’s viewable on You Tube. The footage consists of action cams mounted on the crews’ helmets and on other places on the boat, plus there is aerial footage.
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My own little action cam, the i60e, was tested out recording time lapse video. I elected to use 760p as the format and left the camera running, sitting on the patio outside the woodshop. Ron the carpenter was using a thickness planer to prepare teak lumber for a big job renewing a large sailboats interior. I meanwhile got back to work on Kaimu’s starboard keel.
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I started at the stern just in front of the rudder skeg and removed any fiberglass sheathing that wasn’t stuck to the wood and faired the gouges left from the impact with the jetty. After getting about 2/3‘s of the way to the bow I had had enough of the nasty fiberglass dust. I could use a respirator and keep it out of my lungs, wear ear protection and keep it out of my ears, but it would find a way down my neck, under my sleeves, and I had to stop.
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Back at the woodshop I stopped the camera and played back the video. It was comical to see Ron jumping back and forth and the wood planks running through the planer at high speed. The video was shot a frame at 3 second intervals, so it was running about ten times faster than normal speed.
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The image is of the superfoiler Team Euroflex and is from catsailingnews.com by Beau Outteridge. In last weeks racing they won every race. This weekend’s racing is on You Tube, just search “superfoiler”.
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