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 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Urban Sailor
Now that my Coleman Camp Grill was operational I could grill a steak on it. I was duped into buying a family pack of 2 steaks, “manager special”, t-bone, actual price was around $6.91/lb., normal price $12.99/lb. Great bargain? Not. My favorite steak, NY Strip, was on sale at $6.99/lb. and boneless. [...]
21 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Ode to Eve
I awoke on board SUNSPLASH in the marina. I don’ remember how I managed to return from the dinner party at Eve’s house. My bicycle was here and to get into the marina I had to enter a code in the lock. There were extra groceries in the fridge and a box of “Taco Kit”. OK, now I remember some [...]
13 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Beware the Ides
It took me a couple of days to recover from overdoing it on the bicycle. I was sore and stiff. I ran out of wine and then ran out of cheese. The next morning was a ham and cheese sandwich without the cheese. Then it was an egg sandwich the next day, the bread was now gone. I was not starving but [...]
08 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Feast-ival
I was growing antsy being cooped up for days of wind and rain. I ran out of bread and made fried rice for breakfast using the ingredients of ham and cheese omelet in the fried rice. I spiced it with some of the chicken mole. Yummy. I ran out of wine and snuck out to the local wine store right outside [...]
03 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Lil' Honda
I made another batch of pollo en coloradito mole and brown rice. I used 4 skinned chicken thighs and mole paste, salsa, and water in 1/3 cup portions. The rice had plenty of chicken stock in it, so I didn’t need stock to make the mole sauce. The chicken thighs were simmered in the sauce for an hour [...]
23 April 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Pilot Gas Rip Off
The big trip up to Crisfield did not go precisely as planned. Waiting in line at the Jacksonville airport for an hour and a half made my sore hip even sorer. Back at the boatyard I began stuffing the car with things I thought I might need.
The Return of Eloisa
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The special was perogies in garlic butter sauce. I used to have perogies at our favorite restaurant years ago in Pasadena, Maryland. The perogies we were served were bland, not bad, but not tasty. I thought about that clam chowder we had missed.
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The next day we decided to go to the beach like we did last Spring, but when we got there fog was rolling in, thick fog. Eloisa was talking about oysters and we had passed a restaurant called Shuckers, they must have oysters. We returned there and I had a seared ahi tuna poke bowl with wasabi dressing, Eloisa had some oysters on the half shell and a bowl of seafood gumbo. We shared a bottle of rose wine.
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We shopped for ingredients for cream of chicken mushroom florentine soup and the next day I made it, this time without adding tomatoes. We sampled the soup on the pandemic porch while Doc of Doc's Chop Shop and Komputer Ken gabbed with us. Doc is rebuilding a gyrocopter. They declined the soup. Geoff the chemist bicycled through the boatyard and we had a chat. He also declined the soup and said he had to leave to cook dinner.
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Eloisa left to take a nap but she played with Blue, her black cocker, at the park with a pond that has a sign "No Dogs". She returned after I had washed the soup pots, etc. Let's go to Southern River Walk for Happy Hour. We snuck in back with Blue and had a couple pinot noirs. Geoff and Karen, the phd chemists, came and sat with us. I asked Geoff if he had already cooked dinner and he said no, wanna come over for dinner? Yes, of course.
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Geoff is a great cook and he got out some seafood and pasta, made a fantastic sauce and poured liberous libations of wine. It was so much fun.
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The next day we had dinner of soup.
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The next day we went to the beach. We made sure to stop at the ice cream shop. Then we ended up at the Sandbar, an accommodating beachside bistro. I ordered a bottle of rose and a poke bowl. These Hawaiian items are appearing on more and more local menus.
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I renamed the beach "Zen Beach". It was very warm for middle of winter, mid 70's. The beach was not crowded but full of people, dogs, one surfer dude that turned out to be a surfer girl, a flyover of a motored parasail. Blue would scamper over the sand to get a ball knocked by Eloisa and her Wilson tennis racket. We knocked off at 3 and took the long slow way back to St. Marys.
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We opted to stop in Southern River Walk again. A musician was setting up his equipment. When will he play? Eloisa said when we leave. And it did happen that way. During Happy Hour the house wine is $3 a glass.
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The image is of Fernandina Beach from promotional photos on the internet.
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