The live aboard life and the hot hot weather, bliss ???

captainslarty

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While we seem to be having a good run of why, how etc regards liveaboard cruising..... to those who are, and the many who read this forum who are planning, or wanting to do the same...

What about the idylic hot, hot weather... ?

Jayne and I had a bit of a shock after a few years, we found we DONT like the weather to be too hot,.. yes, I know, I have booked an appointment with my quack and a shrink....... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

We used to do the normal med and caribbean holidays in the old life... couldnt be hot enough for us we used to say..

What we have discovered though, much to our surprise, is that we dont actually like very hot weather for long periods of time. A 3 week sun break from work was fantastic, but month after month can get too much. Its just another one to think about, the beauty is you can always go where the weather suits your clothes and your temperature preferences.
I couldnt imagine, for example, being in the med in mid summer, with the best ventilation going, for me, just too much after a few weeks.
Give me a nice 22 to 25 degrees and I am happy, when it gets over 30 like this summer, for long periods, oh man,,,

Everyone is different obviously, and thank god for that.... but if you are planning to go, consider it as another link in the chain... we have next years route planned out, and the temperatures are on the must have list.

Funny ol world aint it... ??
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How right you are. Two years of the tropics in the rainy season, and we've elected for a REAL winter this year, cruising on the Canadian Pacific coast.

Actually its the humidity rather than the heat. It can be more comfortable on the equator than 15 degrees either side.
 
I agree with you re hot temps - and I live in the tropics!

'Hot' weather is fine for a 2 week holiday - but if you are living (and working) in it, it is a bit different.

If I have visitors from England staying, they invariably come in the 'winter' time when the temps are really very pleasant in Barbados - in fact it can even get a bit chilly at night (down to maybe 22C? Lowest on record was 18C - was front page news in the paper!).

And of course everyone raves about the lovely weather, and they dont believe me when I tell them it is rather hotter and more humid during the summer (which is also the rainy season). They think I am just trying to fob them off....

Many yachts head south to Trinidad and Venezuela for the hurricane season - however heading north, up to New England is another option (and a bit cooler!).

Although the winds always seem to blow a hooley in the Dutch ABC islands off the Venezuelan coast, hence they are probably a bit cooler than the Antilles - I think Kelly's Eye is there now, and maybe they can elaborate more on this?
 
I live in the Middle East

A nice winters days here is 36C during the day, dropping to a chilly 18c at night.

As long as it is below 40C it's OK.
 
Not so bliss when you have to live in it day after day. We agree we found odd days during the last two summers hot. We are in the process of fitting a/c to the boat ready for the Far East when we eventually get there and perhaps Turkey and Greece in July August.
 
Mornin.
As you point out, horses for courses. We lived aboard in the UK for a winter, and never again. It's no fun at all to slide on icy pontoons in the morning. Being constantly wet did not thrill me at all. Drying clothes a pain. Yes we had the eberspacher, dehumidifier etc, etc.
Spent a number of years in Gib, south Spain and even then got fed up with winter weather.
Now in the Canaries, gimme the sunshine!!
Had a couple of seasons in Windies and Venezuala, enjoyed it but sometimes you gotta work a bit. Will go back one day though!

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Mornin Cap.
Now, the canaries, yes, thats a great climate !
My Solicitor as asked me to point out to all that I not, even by mutual agreement, suggest, imply or attempt to co-erce anyone at all to spend a winter in the UK, in no way, ever never oops, would any sane and sensible person ever ever ever want to spend a winter in the uk on a boat, or at all to be honest lol..... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Wah. I feel better now....
Mind you, Corunas winter is pretty grim Late Jan to March.. but muchos work to do now the health has returned, so I can live with that.
Joe.
 
I really like La Coruna but as you say winters are, well, wintry. I understand that whatever the temperature is in Cornwall, add 5 c and that is Galicia. Rainy too. Good football team though to entertain on a Sunday!
 
Ah the old Deportiva de La Coruna team, yep... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Still in shorts and tee at the mo, but overcast today, we are going scrapping this aft.. Puerto Oza, just around the tanker terminal, breaks trawlers, one guys after a 23 foot ssb whip, (Last one was 40 euros gas axed off at the tower lol)
I have heard there is a single pot 8 horse water cooled oiler attached to a pump round there on an Irish boat in for scrapping, ´just the thing for me genny if its, as I believe, a little cute Yanmar 1GM...
If you ever want a 70 foot liveaboard trawler, give me a bell, they break them for the licence, not cos they is knackered.. some really nice gear too, or maybe a spare 400 HP oiler for the sensible mobile ?
 
Well, HI !!! long time eh ? how are you two doing ?, we still use the ol hamburgueseria on rare occasions as its so darn good, we eventually bit the bullet and bought a small stainless deep fat fryer so we dont need to go out for our CHIP fix.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Small world huh guys ?.. well, youll be glad to know the medical problems are finally sorted, thank god, so we are making for the Azores for a year or two. Are you crossing the pond this year or wintering in the Canaries, or indeed, are you holed up on some deserted beach drinking tequila....
Jayne says Hi too.

Love Joe n Jayne, and Molly our one eyed cat.
 
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