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.
21 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA
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17 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
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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 [...]

GIMP Vomit

03 June 2021 | Somers Cove, Crisfield, MD
Cap'n Chef Andy
I was puttering around, raised the genoa again with the new halyard to see if it wrapped like the old one, it did. I also noted how high on the mast I had to mount the halyard restrainer. Maybe 6 inches from the halyard sheave. A cheap Chinese GPS speedometer arrived and I installed it in a blank spot on the end of the cabin outside just below the depth sounder display. Probably had a knotmeter in that spot at one time.
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I continued reading the sailpanache.com blog. At this point Panache is heading West from Costa Rica to Isla Cocos, then leaving there to Galapagos, then leaving there to the Marquesas, I think. His boat is older than Sunsplash but was converted to diesel and probably has a lot of other modifications to go offshore. At the same time I’m watching a 1984 Catalina 30 finish its auction at BoatAngel.org. Up to $3,800 with 10 minutes to go. 3 cyl. Diesel engine that is described as running with just over 500 hours on it. It sold at $4,050, $800 less than what Sunsplash went for last year.
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I was surprised to see Jack von Ommen back at it. Gosh, how old is he? Anyway, he sailed from Cape Charles a little South of Crisfield, to Deltaville, VA, on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake to haul out. Then he sailed back to Cape Charles and is ready to sail the Atlantic, great circle style, up past Nova Scotia, to North of Ireland, then Scotland.
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The next day I didn’t feel well and remembered Cornelia Marie had been ill with a virus during the previous week. I worked on my file of photos from the Canon camera and deleted some test shots that had been on the camera’s memory card from day one, 3 cameras ago. I have only had 3 photos printed for friends and family and plan to do more. I contacted Finer Arts, a printer in San Antonio who had printed a couple of test prints for me, and asked them what was the difference between the two canvases I had selected, they both looked identical to me. The reply was that they are noticeably different, Matte Canvas has a warm skin tone color and Artisan Archival Canvas is bright white. They will do an additional test print on Matte Canvas for me.
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I also did some manipulation of some of the photos, not permanent, just to see the various functions in Ubuntu’s GIMP application. I primarily used posterization, boosted contrast, and boosted saturation. I sent one image to Cornelia Marie who asked if I had vomited, and that image is the one I’m using on this blog post.
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