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.
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Recent Blog Posts
23 April 2024 | St Marys, GA

D4 Launchie

The laptop pooped the bed, so I have to scurry around with alternatives. Not as bad as typing on the phone.

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.

Next Radio

06 August 2018 | St Marys, GA
Capn Andy/humid
After the first of the month I quickly scan the online sailing magazines, including Southwinds, and this month they had an article about a smart phone app that can make your smart phone into a radio receiver. I did not know that almost every smart phone in the US has AM/FM radio functionality built in. It is not a feature that any cellular service provider advertises, because not only wouldn’t the provider not get any revenue from the app, the customer using the app would not be streaming and thus paying for data. In fact, my phone was originally from Verizon and Verizon’s phones have firmware that disables the radio chip, so I will never be able to receive a local radio station directly off the air.
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In the case of natural disaster, such as a hurricane, often the internet goes down due to downed wires. Emergency information can usually be picked up on VHF radio weather channels, but being able to receive local radio would be an important safety resource. I think Verizon’s blocking of the radio chip is a public disservice.
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When I installed the app, called Next Radio, it did a quick search of local stations, but due to the radio chip being disabled it then went into a streaming radio mode through the boatyards wireless internet. I listened to a few stations and finally landed on WFAN sports radio out of NYC.
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When I first started living aboard in Connecticut while employed in Stamford I didn’t have a TV on the boat. I listened to WFAN or NPR. So, it was a nostalgic moment when I began listening to WFAN again, nice to hear the New York accents again after all this time in Georgia hearing various drawls. The main topic on the radio was a New York Yankee/Boston Red Sox series in which Boston swept the Yankees. I will probably tune in again sometime.
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