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.
Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler
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The cost of repair includes disassembly, replacement of the damaged portion of the boom, and certification of the crane's capacity, all done by expensive proprietary crane engineers, plus transportation costs. It was explained to me that the down time is long and customers have already been waiting for crane work to haul out multihulls and mast removals. The boatyard will purchase a replacement crane and have operations back to normal within about a month.
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I was not hearing anything from Eloisa, which was kind of odd. Perhaps she and I will never get together again. I doubt she will come back to the boatyard in the intense heat that is building and will last throughout the summer and early fall. They say if you love something, then let it go, let it be free. I am selfish. My heart is quick to fall in love, but loyal. A free range fool. No one is perfect. There is always the negative factor that love ignores, but is useful when love ends, the sour grapes effect. I can have a million friends but crave that special friend, above and apart from all others.
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I had run out of wine and heeded Big Dave when he said he never saw anybody drink as much as I do. I was OK with some abstinence, I was comfortable with the decision to drive to Crisfield rather than sail. I have to stop wrestling with the future and deal with the present, the now. It is much easier that way.
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The Wordle game is a way to connect with my older daughter in Oxford, UK, and often we use the same number of guesses to solve it and she texts me, "Twins". How charming. I use ADIEU as my first guess and STORY as my second, if the first one only gets me one correct vowel. This last puzzle got me 2 vowels in the first guess, AdieU, but I entered STORY as the second guess anyway. I was surprised to get stOrY back as a result. Four vowels? I thought of words like BUOY, but that has only 4 letters. I had to write on pen and paper and then it hit me, BAYOU, which was the answer, only 3 guesses, yay. Later my daughter sent me her result which was 5 guesses, no mention of twins. Ironically she had visited bayou country in Louisiana and was contemplating buying something there. The image is of my Worlde entry.
