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.
Urban Sailor
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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.
