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. |
25 November 2023 | St. Marys, GA
St Marys Thanksgiving Week
The last two posts represented my accumulated writing while packing a rental car, driving 11 hours South, unpacking, and getting readjusted to the boatyard in St. Marys. It was not convenient to post to the blog during that time.
17 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Crisfield Departure
The countdown to departure from Crisfield gets down to a few days. The weekend has passed and after nice dinners and a lot of wine I find myself grilling the last strip steak. The dinner is ridiculously quick and easy. The steak is grilled for 2 ½ minutes a side and while it’s grilling several [...]
03 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
The Senior Moment
I needed to repair my garden hose at the boat so I rode the bike up to the hardware store just a little past the grocers. I took it easy, this is the farthest I’ve gone on the bike since the hip surgery. The female hose end cost $2.39 and went into my pocket. I rode back near downtown near the marina [...]
26 October 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Legionaire's Disease
The ride on the rented golf cart took only 20 minutes, but was very enjoyable, both to get out of the marina and get errands done. I now had wine and two packages from TEMU. The total for the TEMU purchase was about fifty bucks. In it I had a nice chef’s knife, a cheap hearing aid, five USB LED [...]
17 October 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Piscetorius
The problems of posting the blog seem to climb to new levels. When I arrived here about 6 months ago I could sometimes use the laptop to post using a USB extension cable and a little remote WiFi antenna. When this method failed to work I would write the blog on the laptop, then bluetooth it to the [...]
GIMP Vomit
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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.
