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23-07-2010, 19:28
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: North of Baltimore
Boat: Ericson 27 & 18' Herrmann Catboat
Posts: 3,798
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It's Too Hot !
For any advice tonite.....
These 100+ days are getting real old......
Been out of the engine rooms for 3 hours and I am still hot...in Air Conditioning.
Word to the wise....If you are working on your vessel in any kind of high heat.....make arrangements to have someone call you at a specified time....just to check and make sure you haven't "fallen out"
Heat related illness can sneak up on you.......
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23-07-2010, 19:39
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: ‘01 Catana 401
Posts: 9,627
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you think it's hot!!!!?!! Try south Texas!! The only real solution is a pool or a cold shower......Beer does not help at first, only water, the beer comes later
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23-07-2010, 19:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,165
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Get out of the harbor. Every one keeps telling me it's so hot. I'm not heading into those better protected anchorages. I'm rinsing the decks with bay water. All week wonderful breezes. I remember when the chessie was a stagnantvboiling pot with flys but the past few years seem different. Sure were in annapolis now and the sidewalks are baking, the outer anchorage had a nice breeze. I'm going to sew up some more awning stuff. Down below it's still a bit hot. But there us a breeze.
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23-07-2010, 19:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Houston
Boat: ‘01 Catana 401
Posts: 9,627
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I'd love to be out of the harbor, but I need to keep working for a few more months
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23-07-2010, 19:49
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Are you joking, Chief? It's so cold right now that I'm wearing a hoodie, and contemplating long pants. The fog is less than a 500 meters from my boat, the wind has just dropped to Force 5, and we're huddled down inside the cabin wondering whether we'll make it to sunset before cranking up the furnace. I've already had to switch from beer to wine in order to avoid hypothermia.
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23-07-2010, 19:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,901
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meh, 102 today with 40% humidity, no breeze in the engine room of a 380 Sundancer. The engine had been shut down an hour earlier and was still at 170 from the overheat.
:shrug: free sauna time
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23-07-2010, 20:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Wash DC
Boat: PETERSON 44
Posts: 3,165
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Keep working it's worth it. Sorry I need to work to. But this week had been another great summer week on the bay. No shortage of wind.
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23-07-2010, 20:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Texas..soon to be where ever I want
Posts: 20
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man where is the devil at? its so damn hot here in south texas...oh man whats that smell? crap its just stinkadena...the heat I can deal with...the heat and the nasty chemical plant smell...just too much for me...I am glad that I wont be dealing with this crap hole much longer...
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23-07-2010, 21:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Edgewater, MD
Boat: Coronado 25
Posts: 315
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A cold shower Chief, if you have access to one.
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23-07-2010, 21:35
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: North of Baltimore
Boat: Ericson 27 & 18' Herrmann Catboat
Posts: 3,798
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An old Tugboat Trick I learned was to run cold water over the insides of your arms....from the crook of the elbow down.....It may be "mental" but it sure seemd to act as a radiator.....what with all those veins so close to the surface......
I am sure Dr. Gordon May (Emm-Dee), Emeritus, will have a link for this.
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23-07-2010, 21:43
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Cruising Greece
Boat: Cat in the med & Trawler in Florida
Posts: 2,323
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Yea its hot here too, (Greece) but we have the wind and the water is 75* so I jump in a few times a day, that works!
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23-07-2010, 21:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Port Ludlow Wa
Boat: Makela,Ingrid38,Idora
Posts: 2,049
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Chief-- Come on up to the PNW. I need new engine mounts and I will hose you down with 54 degree seawater and cold beer.
Todd
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23-07-2010, 22:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,372
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper
Chief-- Come on up to the PNW. I need new engine mounts and I will hose you down with 54 degree seawater and cold beer.
Todd |
Ditto! The last two nights it's actually been over 60º F w/ morning fog. 
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The measure of a man is how he navigates to a proper shore in the midst of a storm!
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23-07-2010, 22:49
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: North of Baltimore
Boat: Ericson 27 & 18' Herrmann Catboat
Posts: 3,798
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Seawater I can handle....Just play the theme to Dangerous Catch in the background.
You can drink the brewskis.
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