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.
Begin Mast, Begin Crossbeam
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We found the marine recycling company to be almost empty of any useful boat parts. They had acquired so many derelict boats from hurricane damage that the market for salvaged boat parts became glutted and then unprofitable. They then scrapped the huge pile of boat parts sending a lot of debris to the landfill and accepting the scrap value of the metal parts.
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We had lunch at a funky diner in what used to be an old gas station. Then Fabio went to the motor vehicle department and took and passed a road test for a Florida driver’s license. Although the day was a waste for me, I like Fernandina Beach very much and had a good time.
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The next day I brought epoxy to shore along with tools and materials to begin gluing the #4 crossbeam together. The boatyard has a barn like building with a breezeway through the middle of it, and in the breezeway is a large table maybe 16 feet long. I began setting up for the first scarf joint by laying down one of my 2X6‘s as a perfectly flat base for two 2X4‘s to be glued together. A third 2X4 was used to keep the scarf joint perfectly aligned from side to side. Plastic was laid down to keep the glue from contacting the alignment 2X4 and 2X6. First I clamped one of the glued 2X4‘s to the non-glued 2X4, then clamped the other glued 2X4 to the non-glued 2X4, then clamped the actual scarf joint with a couple of C-clamps.
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The next day the epoxy wasn’t totally set up, so I left it for another day. I worked on the mast, removing a halyard winch that will have to be mounted in a different position. Doc had already removed the other winch. He gave me the mast cap that had the remnants of a destroyed anchor light and a corroded bracket for the VHF antenna. I removed them, only snapping one bolt.
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I ordered from Defender Marine an antenna, windex wind indicator, anchor light, and an LED bulb for the anchor light.
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The image is a photo from earlier in the voyage South.
