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
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 [...]

Nori for Sale

14 March 2021 | St Marys
Cap'n Chef Andy | beautiful weather
I’ve taken to watching the golf tournaments on weekends, golf is a sport made for TV, although some compare it to watching paint dry. Also we are in the middle of an America’s Cup event and the paint drying analogy no longer applies to yacht racing. I was driving down route 40 with Robert and remarked, “The America’s Cup yachts are sailing faster than we are driving right now.” The speed limit was 45 and I was going 55, as usual, the New Zealand yacht has been clocked at 57 knots which is more than 57 miles per hour. A few years ago I was driving on route 50 Eastward toward Annapolis, then going up I-97 to Pasadena. The speed limit on these roads is mostly ignored and you can go 80 if you’re brave and foolish. I was checking out my new GPS dongle with the laptop, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, and running navigation software. I thought it would be cool to have the same display of the car as I had while sailing the boat. I was surprised to see I wasn’t even close to 80 mph, so I increased the speed to 79 on the gps. I had to pass cars. I thought those speeders were crazy before, now I realized I just had a slow speedometer. I went along at a good pace and later, after I got off the high speed roads, I realized I was reading knots, not miles per hour. Closer to 90 miles an hour than 80.
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Currently the two competing America’s Cup teams are tied up at 3-3. The races are like mongoose and cobra, high speeds, nip and tuck, hard for anyone who hasn’t raced to understand, like distilled essence of match racing. First one to 7 wins wins it.
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When I got the idea to make a clone of Cornelia Marie’s Wonder Dog, Nori, the other part of the idea was the oohs and ah reaction to my daughter’s knitted and crocheted products. She started doing this with my ex’s training after suffering a home invasion and stress whenever she went out in public. She would just make things and found she could get on a bus, walk through a mall, if she was involved with her knitting and crocheting. She wrote an article in a crafts newsletter about this and it was very touching. But she has a knack for whimsy, and when she sent me a crocheted imaginary animal, a sort of Claude M.C. Escher sort of being, I opened the box in the boatyard’s woodshop surrounded by sweaty hard calloused yardbirds, who normally see tools and materials emerging from boatyard packages. It hit us all by surprise, some chuckling, laughing, some with tears in their eyes, then I knew she had a gift.
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She made a Llama, complete with bells, a Snoopy with Woodstock, a set of South Park characters, all crocheted. For my friends wedding a couple years ago she made a Burger King Crown, crocheted. He likes to wear a crown after winning a game. She made an Octopus Hat, which I would not wear, but is very popular with the girls, for my friends new wife.
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So I suggested, why not make a replica of a pet, maybe not perfect replica, but a reminder of a pet that has been lost, or a pet that is especially dear. Put photos of the replicas side by side with the original pet on her Etsy site. She did not do this. She made the replica of Nori and on her site put an order form that you can pick the type of pet, breed, etc. and she will make that.
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The next day I awoke feeling better, but it was late. I didn’t realize it was now daylight savings time. I was worried that Robert would be showing up and I would be making coffee. He didn’t show and I had breakfast. I took a spin on the bicycle. I forgot that my spin was to go up to the Breezeway and see if my orbital sander was up there. I returned and it was there, I brought it back to Kaimu and got my tools out to try to repair the sander.
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The random orbital sander works by rotating like a spinning disk and also by having the axis of the disk rotating, so that the sandpaper does not create concentric grooves in the surface, it is randomly grooved. In this case an internal bearing had seized up, the disk spun freely, but the random orbital action wasn’t there. The result was a sander that would be overly aggressive, burning the surface and destroying the sandpaper at the same time. I had given up on repairing this a long time ago, but now it was do or die. I found the screws of the hook and loop plate of the sander would not budge. I then took the sander apart. It wasn’t easy, but giving the one recalcitrant screw massive pressure on the Philips screwdriver budged the screw enough that after a while I could remove it. After that it was a matter of fact, spray some Blaster into the bearing, not directly accessible, spray and drain, spray and drain, then try it, spin it, spray and drain, spin it, it spins. Reassemble, clean up the electrical plug, find a hook and loop sanding disk, apply, try it out on a section of the hull. Great. A nice light sander, takes off exactly what I’m trying to take off, set aside for later. Look for more disks. None found. Fortunately Harbor Freight now has a local store and I’m sure they have the disks I need.
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The image was sent by Cornelia Marie of Nori, the Wonder Dog, and the crocheted clone, both cute canines.
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