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. |
20 September 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Rothkoesque
Something I had said a while back about the NY Jets roster, with a roster of elite players, if the team should fail, it will be on the coaches. They have the means at their disposal to win against any other team. On Sunday the Cowboys destroyed them. I blame it on the coaches.
17 September 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Crab Capital (not)
Sunday dinner was Shepherd's Pie at Cuddily's home on the water. Wine and Irish whiskey flowed. It was a very nice evening and my return to the marina was very late. I called my older brother in Hawaii an hour later than my usual time. The Dallas Cowboys were visiting the New York Giants for a rainy [...]
10 September 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Ainslie Antics
One of the items that came in from TEMU is an inexpensive rice cooker. It is actually a kind of slow cooker with two settings, 600 and 200 watts. The higher wattage is to get it boiling and the lower wattage is to slow cook. Supposedly it has a temperature limit control that automatically shuts it [...]
03 September 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Bleau Moon
An additional note about the Venus de Milo Seafood Chowder: the lobster, shrimp, and scallops are cooked separately and reserved, then added to the soup at the end. This way each piece of seafood retains its own unique flavor. Also the roux should be made with the clam stock before adding the tomato [...]
27 August 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
A Naughty-cal Eatery
I had a lot of difficulty posting my last post. Because the internet is so weak in the marina, I have to use my phone to post to the blog. Photos are edited on the laptop, so I would bluetooth the photo from the phone to the laptop, do what I had to do using GIMP, export from GIMP to desktop, save [...]
21 August 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
BahamaMama
Two days of high humidity and afternoons of severe thunderstorms, that starts off our week. It only got up to about 93 but humidity, the roasting on an unairconditioned boat, and visions of the deserts of Lawrence of Arabia come to mind.
Steak Night
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I had chores to do, go to the store, I’m out of water and bread and only have 2 eggs left. I had to do laundry. We end up wearing strange clothing when we get down to the bottom of clean clothes. I went out between raindrops and only got a little wet from the rain. The boat was smelling damp and musty.
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After folding laundry I found that it was already 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The tidal water in the marina had dropped about 6 inches which enabled me to get on board a little easier. I became hungry and quickly made a ham and cheese sandwich with olive oil mayo and a glass of wine. After a while I noticed the light outside was getting horizontal from the sun, setting lower in the sky, It looked like a sunset was about to happen, so I rode the bike to the gates near the Tawes Museum, and only one gate was open. I rode down the street to the City Dock, almost no traffic. The sun was setting and I grabbed a few shots. After all our rain and gale winds, there was a rainbow that appeared in two segments, one over the downtown from my point of view, and another appeared above the crab facilities to the South of the City Dock. I took my time and snapped a few photos.
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It was Thursday Night Football, and I know some of you don’t care, but I care, it’s the Panthers with my old Jets’ quarterback, Sam Darnold, against the Texans, a team that has a quarterback that is paid 10.5 million a year to sit on his ass, and then went on with a good second quarterback who turned up injured, out for weeks. The third string quarterback had to go into the game against the top defense in the league. He did well. At halftime the score was 7-6 for the Panthers.
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The Panthers running back CMC, best in the league was out with a hamstring. Some would think that is about it, if they only got to 7-6 with CMC, what could they do now? Sam Darnold got two rushing touchdowns, one like a fullback into the pile. He threw for over 300 yards, continuing a trend this season, 3-0.
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The next day I put batteries in the new fuel transfer pump from Harbor Freight and removed the fuel gauge sender from the fuel tank. The previous owner had said the gauge wasn’t working. The ground wire attached to the sender fell off. Maybe that’s why. With the opening for the sender just large enough to push the fuel transfer pump down into the tank I began filling gallon water bottles. The tank is rated at 21 gallons. I filled 21 gallon bottles. Now I had a problem, Somerset County does not accept Hazardous Household Waste, which is what old gasoline is.
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I texted members of the Bad Crowd that the Legion was having Steak Night and I headed over there toward 5PM. Malcolm and Nancy from the trawler in the marina were there and he was nervous about getting his dinner in time so that he could return to the marina and begin his night security detail. They were sitting with a mayoral candidate who was talking local politics. The Legion was filling up with customers and we sat outside out of the wind. Cuddily arrived and I introduced her around the table. Cornelia Marie arrived with Nori the Wonder Dog. Eve and Karen arrived later. Malcolm and Nancy had to return to the marina with doggie bags. CM and I discussed buying one of Eve’s paintings to hang in CM’s house.
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The image is a photo taken at the City Dock during a vivid sunset as the storm clouds dissipate.
