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Summer Heat
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Re: Summer Heat
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Re: Summer Heat
Maybe the West Coast offers less seasonally demanding climates? How about shipping your boat to San Francisco if you like colder temps? What range of temps would one have to deal with in San Diego? Just pointing out some options here.
Drifting from the topic here, my biggest challenge is winter. We do run a ceramic heater when at the dock. It's the only time I exceed the basic electric charges. We used 11 KWH of electric last month. Winter is MUCH higher. Condensation and mold are our enemy in the winter. Summer, a couple of fans keep things more or less comfortable.
Just give me bathing suit and flip-flop weather, and I'm a happy camper.
Ralph
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Re: Summer Heat
Now I still drink a lot (most beer, but that's getting off the subject)...... but now really play a "union role", work 15-30 mins, then rest in the shade for 10-30 mins.... Had a guy at the marina next door taken off by EMS last week for over heating and had a heart attack....
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Re: Summer Heat
Jaxfishgyd wrote:Source of the post From being born/raised in S. Florida and spending all my time outdoors in my youth, to my 42 yrs working outside as a telephone repair tech.... I can tell you... the older one gets, the worse the heat gets.... The only thing that worked for me at the end of my career (retired in 2012) was to drown myself drinking water and gatoraid from the minute I got up till I went to bed, everytime I got out of/in to my work truck I drank 12 oz of cold something..... But even then, in the summertime I would sweat till 1am- 3am...
Now I still drink a lot (most beer, but that's getting off the subject)...... but now really play a "union role", work 15-30 mins, then rest in the shade for 10-30 mins.... Had a guy at the marina next door taken off by EMS last week for over heating and had a heart attack....
Yep, we ended up down here in FL 'cause my father got a contracting job (Continental Communications) for GTE and his only stipulation was not working outdoors--so traveled around state installing wiring for those central offices. I'm lucky I did my sailboating soon after being out on my own before I got used to air-conditioning, so hot in a sailboat, sweat just runs off you; then put in biking in it too. Nowadays solar panels can be picked up for far less, just having a little car type fan for some moving air makes all the difference. Sometimes I'd try working on my little yanmar diesel, get all hot, sticky aggravated


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