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 [...]
Pilot Gas Rip Off
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I spent all the next day packing the car and the next morning left at 9:15. The car, which was charged to me as a full gas tank needed 3.4 gallons to top it off after just a 30 mile drive from the airport.
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The trip according to Google maps should take about 11 hours to cover 700 miles. I had my galaxy S20+ paired with the car and received a couple of calls as well as had the phones Google maps displayed on the car’s touchscreen display. The type C USB cable wouldn’t charge the phone, but it normally lasts all day on a charge.
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When I got to Florence, SC, it was time to get more fuel, not because I was empty, but because fuel prices in North Carolina were reported to be high. I stopped at Pilot store #337, pump #4, and put in 10.935 gallons of 87 octane, at a price of 3.359/gal. The bill was $42.20, hey, wait a minute, 10 gallons would be $33.59 and my purchase should have been around $37. I went inside and complained and they said they couldn’t do anything about it. After quite a bit of cajoling they gave me a customer service number which put me on hold for quite a while. The 5 dollar rip off wasn’t worth what I was going through, but how could I let them perpetuate this scam. Everyone who comes through that pump and buys 87 octane will be charged 50 cents more a gallon. If it wasn’t such an egregious error I wouldn’t have noticed it. I finally got someone to put in a credit for me and maybe I’ll receive it in a few days. The personnel at the gas station did nothing, not even a sign on the pump. Evil.
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The was about a half hour delay. I had also endured a 40 minute delay from construction South of Emporia and a 20 minute delay after that one. At Emporia I took Rte. 58 to Virginia Beach. My phone ran out of juice and died. Well, I figured, I know the way, it shouldn’t be too hard to get to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at Virginia Beach. I followed the signs to Virginia Beach.
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At Virginia Beach I found myself driving North along the beachfront and then West on Rte. 60, where is the Bridge Tunnel? I stopped at a Food Lion, got breakfast fixings and asked how to get to the bridge. I was about 5 minutes away but I have wasted a lot of time driving around that town.
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Over the bridge and on my way to Pocomoke where I hoped I could get a charger for my phone at Walmart. By the time I got there I had been on the road over 13 hours. I got my charger and then drove to Crisfield, about 20 miles, on local roads. By the time I checked into the marina and got aboard it was past midnight.
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The image is of the car’s display screen showing the route from St. Marys to Crisfield.
