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Anchored at Trimley marshes for the night. Very blowy and lumpy. Woke up to 14 c.
Good bye heat wave. I now have a scarf, hat and thick wooly on due to wind chill and am now heading back to my mooring for terra firma.
 
It’s funny how in the middle of summer, when it happens, you have been going around in skimpy clothing for weeks and catch sight of you fleeces and jackets hanging in a locker and think “How on Earth do I manage to wear all that clobber?”, and only a week or two later it’s the other way round.
 
14C is not cold. Back in February I stayed aboard and it went down to -3C. There was frost on the decks and day time it went to a sparkling 5C.

A couple of nights ago it felt so cold I started wearing a sweatshirt, I know it is still August, but this is such a change from a few days earlier when I was wearing shorts.
 
The word is acclimatisation. When you get a sudden drop of 10 degrees Celsius you notice it. I sometime sleep in my caravan in my garden in the winter when it is freezing or below freezing because I love that fresh air as opposed to central heating stuffiness.
By then my body has slowly become use to it.
 
Spent many a night on the broads with frost inside the cabin...
Morning routine,
Reach out from the sleeping bag, light the hob, with a prefilled kettle sitting on top, watch the frost melt as the kettle heats.
Shuffle into sitting position, pour hot water into prepared cup of coffee. Put kettle to one side leave hob heating cabin.
Drink coffee..
By the time coffee drunk, warm enough to get out of the sleeping bag.
 
The Q said:
Spent many a night on the broads with frost inside the cabin...
Morning routine,
Reach out from the sleeping bag, light the hob, with a prefilled kettle sitting on top, watch the frost melt as the kettle heats.
Shuffle into sitting position, pour hot water into prepared cup of coffee. Put kettle to one side leave hob heating cabin.
Drink coffee..
By the time coffee drunk, warm enough to get out of the sleeping bag.
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We used to go on the Broads in April, the school holiday. My first visit was circa 1948 and in the middle of a heat wave, but most of my memories there are of fine weather. Sleeping bags hadn't been invented even when I went later as a student. We had proper bedding, which in our sailing boats we would roll away before breakfast to the backs of the bunk/saloon seats.
 
The Q said:
Spent many a night on the broads with frost inside the cabin...
Morning routine,
Reach out from the sleeping bag, light the hob, with a prefilled kettle sitting on top, watch the frost melt as the kettle heats.
Shuffle into sitting position, pour hot water into prepared cup of coffee. Put kettle to one side leave hob heating cabin.
Drink coffee..
By the time coffee drunk, warm enough to get out of the sleeping bag.
Click to expand...
Good thing about most cabins is due to their size the cooker heats them up quite quickly.
 
I love being on the boat when it’s cold; stick the washboards in, light the oil lamps and Taylor’s heater, some music or a film and pour a generous dram. Just magic.
 
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