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.
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17 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
03 November 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
26 October 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
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04 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
03 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
03 October 2023 | Alice B. Tawes, McReady Pavilion, Crisfield, Maryland Eastern Shore
Recent Blog Posts
01 March 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Alternative Seats

The rain event was more wind than rain, strong winds with gusts up to 44 mph. We drove into town to see what the harbor was like. There was a small sailboat that had dragged anchor and was sitting close to shore. The tide was out. We left and played with Bleu at Notter’s Pond.

23 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Inside Seams

Day two of the dinghy build started out with me finishing wiring the hull bottoms together on the centerline of the bottom panels. This was much easier than the wiring of the chine edges of the bottom panels and the side panels.

15 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Dinghy Day One

A Wharram Pahi 26 had been anchored in the river nearby the boatyard and was hauled out with the travel lift. I went around to look at it and talked to the owner couple. I was surprised that it had been built in Martinique in 1988. The boat is more than 30 years old.

11 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

D4 Redux

The inflatable (deflatable) dinghy I had bought was deteriorating. It had bottom seams separating. It is a West Marine branded dinghy made out of PVC. HH66 is the adhesive to reattach the seams. A friend had a similar problem and bought the same adhesive. I was waiting to hear from him how it worked [...]

06 February 2024 | St. Marys, GA

The Clincher

We decided to go to Amelia Island for the day, probably to the beach. Our plan to cycle around on the Raleigh 20’s seemed like a bad idea, Bleu can’t keep up with a bicycle for very long and when he quits he quits. So we would walk, where?, Fort Clinch State Park. She has a forever pass for Florida [...]

26 January 2024 | St. Marys, GA

Zen and Bike Maintenance

Eloisa rolled into the boatyard after a long drive down from the mountains. It was getting cold and isolated up there. I had a nasty toothache and we went to Southern River Walk. Bleu, her black American cocker was showing a bit of plumpness. I had had a sandwich and some wine already, so I didn’t [...]

Urban Sailor

25 May 2023 | Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, MD
Cap'n Chef Andy | NE Blustery
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. Nevertheless I grilled one of the t-bones and smoked up the cabin. Good nutrition.
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A new problem arose. Roughrider Lynn was back aboard her steel sailboat in Urbana, VA, and now wanted to move it to Crisfield. I agreed to help her, but I wanted at least one other person on board. She seemed unable to come up with crewmate.
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I did the route planning and it came out to almost exactly 50 miles, mostly a NE course. I made a light list, bearing and distance of the legs, and then realized we were in a protracted NE weather flow, we were stuck between a high pressure cell and a low that would arrive on Memorial Day weekend. Anyone who has tried to drive a boat against the Bay chop and into a wind of more than 10 knots has found that usually speed has to be reduced to deal with hobby horsing and spray. The end result is much longer time spent bashing into the wind and waves. In our case the forecast is gusting up to 25 knots for the rest of the week.
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As is usual, the NOAA marine forecast is overly daunting. We were going to wait for the weekend, but the wind had abated by Wednesday. In the morning Lynn called and was emotional and weeping, she is going through the grieving process. Just a half hour later she called all happy and reporting the engine was running, the fuel was declared suitable by a good mechanic. I asked her to run it about a half hour under load, that is, in gear, but not break any mooring lines. She also reported the VHF radio was operational. I had a handheld VHF that I would bring along anyway.
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While route planning with OpenCPN I neglected to test the GPS dongle, labeled “GPS/GLONASS U-blox7”, and now I tried it out. I have numerous notes on how to get it going. This time I found that selecting and deleting any connections in the tool section of OpenCPN, and then adding connection which brings up a menu page. The connection is network, gpsd protocol, address 0.0.0.0. Other schemes that I may have posted might have been using Navigatrix as the operating system and OpenCPN operates a little bit differently depending on what Navigatrix distribution you are using. This time I am using a Ubuntu operating system with OpenCPN downloaded and installed from the repository.
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The image is a screen shot of the route planned using OpenCPN.
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