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416rigby

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This is getting stupid! We had to cancel our Pensacola fishing weekend because of heat index approaching 114 degrees. Way hotter this summer than last.

Normally we go soak in the lake, but the water there is 90! There's no getting away from it. Here's a shot of the cabin thermometer...all windows and hatch open and fan running on high. Crazy stuff.
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OK Rick & Donna: So now you are catching on. Last year...you did not want to jump into the water cause you spent some of your career jumping from perfectly good helocopters into frozen waters to help folks.... Then you passed the Noodle-Training certification exams/exercises.

Now...a bit more seasoned southern boater... you can start to understand why raw water wash downs thru fine nozzles in front of fans are inportant...and...some of the field trials on FreeByrd along the way...

You will be surprised at the differance a king/queen white sheet structured over your boat at ancor as to shade your entire boat will make.. Then, add AC & a small Honda Genset. Take note of the echonomical done in one hour $115 AC set up that really worked on FreeByrd.

Engineers and folks that get sick easily by quick functional design...and get hung up on "it don't look pretty...".... well... stay at home in the AC and read your boat books.

Serious C-Brats.... GO TO IT!!

Byrdman

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I didnt cancel my fishing today........Hmmmm.
Yall need to come on down to Apalach and we will fish . You'll get used to it , and you just need to drink water like it was beer , fill your hats with ice, and move around to get some wind on ya between fish .
Marc
 
One has to be careful about equating temps in the direct sun with temps on the water. We get temps from 105 to 117 in the direct sun, yet the temp in the shade is in the 90 to 96 range. But on the water, the temp will be in the low 90's or even high 80's. The water temp is in the mid to high 80's near shore, but a bit lower offshore. We have spent a number of the days on the water this summer, when our therometer on the patio under the pool cage is 115, yet it was quite comfortable on the boat. Although we had the generator aboard, it was cool enough to not run the generator and AC.

Incidently the majority of the afternoon has been in the mid 70's in Pensacola today. Currently at 5 PM it is 76 outside. We had a nice rain storm lasting about 10 minutes and it cooled off.

I have been working on the CD 25 for about 4 hours a day--usually in the AM, with temps in the 110 range on the in the sun therometer--and I was fine, with drinking water and keeping a fan going. Jump in the water to cool off.

Don't cancel the fishing because of the heat--it is not that bad.
 
Byrdman":2ini6r7n said:
Engineers and folks that get sick easily by quick functional design...and get hung up on "it don't look pretty...".... well... stay at home in the AC and read your boat books.

Serious C-Brats.... GO TO IT!!

Byrdman
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Serious REDNECK C-brats go to it.

ROTFLMAO.

Hey, if it works and you only need it for a few days a year, go for it....

Don
 
Must be global warming, we had one here today too. Out in Prince William sweating today, not something you do much of in Alaska. Don't see many deodorant commercials up here either!
Picture of the fishing trip coming soon.
Mike
 
thataway":2tfbauxy said:
We had a nice rain storm lasting about 10 minutes and it cooled off.
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When we have summer rains here it usually last 10 days. The winter and spring ones last 10 months.

Maybe with global warming, our rainy season will be shortened to nine months.
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oldgrowth":2mjo8rqv said:
When we have summer rains here it usually last 10 days. The winter and spring ones last 10 months.
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I actually am expecting us to have more rain, not less. And less snow in the mountains, too (bad for the rivers, bad for the salmon.)

Warren
 
Well, we have several friends who have lived here for upwards of 30 years and they all say the same thing..."never seen it this bad or for this long, either...ever."

As far as sleeping out on the boat in this heat...no thanks! It's the sleeping comfort that is the major issue...plus the fact that ya just can't jump in the saltwater to cool off without having to rinse in fresh afterwards. We could deal with that problem by getting a slip at a place like Holiday Harbor, but then there's that sweaty night of attempted sleep ahead. We're not weenies...we're pretty adventurous outdoor types...but enough is enough! Uncle!!

Lots of folks I've talked with on other forums all say the same thing...it's just too to darn hot to do anything and the fishing hasn't been all that great either. We've also been monitoring the weather online and it just doesn't seem to cool off in the evening...I know it hasn't here. Heck, it's in the upper 80's at 5 AM.

We were planning on anchoring out somewhere for a Friday evening, blasting offshore for some fishing early in the AM and returning to the hook for the second night. Not until things get back to normal.

Figures...we watch all the nice weather go by and when we can get some time to go there...the ol' broiler comes on...

We'll get there...sooner or later.
 
Last week we spent four nights at a camp ground on Dale Hollow Lake on the TN/KY border. They had record heat there as well. We did the boaterhome thing by launching each morning and then pulling the boat and towing it to the campground each evening.

A few months ago, I bought one of those small 5000 btu air conditioners for $98 from Lowes and it worked great. It was the only thing that made sleeping possible. It was the first thing hooked up when we arrived at the campground and the last thing disconnected when we left. Definitely worth the money.
 
A little AC unit would be just the ticket for camping on the trailer for sure....but when anchoring, we'd need a reeeeaaallllyyy long extension cord! :lol: I know, I know...get a generator. Probably will one of these days.

Here's a blurb from the online weather:

National Weather Service Birmingham al
132 PM CDT Tue 14 2007

... Consecutive days at 100 degrees or warmer in central Alabama...

Mother nature has brought hot and humid temperatures to central
Alabama this past week, exacerbating the drought condition we are
already experiencing. Here are some running totals of consecutive
days central Alabama has seen temperatures at or above 100 degrees
and where this latest streak of triple digits falls historically:

consecutive day with historical year of longest streak/
temp. At 100 or higher rank number of days

--------------------------------------------------------
Birmingham 8 1st(tied) 1980 / 8
Montgomery 9 1st 1990,1954,1881/ 7
Tuscaloosa 8 1st(tied) 1952,1954 / 8
Anniston 8 1st(tied) 1952 / 8


With forecast temperatures at or just above 100 degrees until the
end of this week, there is a good chance that some of these
records could soon fall.

Geeze...I guess an ice cold :beer or two is in order.
 
Hi Rob & Karen,
We went out last weekend at Smith Mountain Lake in Va. it was very hot. We but the boat in the shop to have a Custom Made Top made for the Back.
I am thinking of doing something with some kind of AC did you try to run yours on and generator out on the lake?
Take care Jim
 
Hi Jim,

We have used the ac unit twice now...once in a marina and once in a campground. Both had electric hookups. We do not have a generator. We have only used it at night and have stored it in the truck during the day.

Are you having a camperback made?

Rob
 
Imagine that---In the south and hot in these dog days of summer. I recall while going through jump school in the Army in Oct l967 it being so hot they ran us through showers clothes and all every hour. Now that wasn't fun. Not the showers but the practice jumping in sawdust pits between them.

Now the old world may just be getting warmer. but why is it that the only thing we hear coming out of that is bad. Do believe a little shifting of rain and heat patterns in the world just might help some and hurt others. Now the over all effect could be presently bad, but the world has been heating and cooling countless times over the ages and the only constant has been change. This will likely continue for some time even after our o so important presence is past. Kinda like those Vikings that made Greenland home for a while.

Speaking of Vikings it seems to me from reading about the History of the Viking colonization of Greenland and Iceland, they couldn't have set up home there without the 200 year exceptional warming period and wouldn't have died or left Greenland if just the opposite hadn't occurred shortly there after.

Sure glad I'am not down there not enjoying this present heat wave. Yes I do believe ole Pat may be just alittle ahead in this game.

Jay
 
We are having a heat wave in Juneau too. Absolutely beautiful last few days. Downright hot at times. Must have been close to 80 yesterday. Now I understand why some people want a center window that opens up.
 
Here in NC today was 98 deg. in the shade, we are in the North East at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts.
Rob, I am just having a Top made with zippers to have sides & back added later.
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Rob,
how do you guys have the a/c unit mounted? i have looked at different scenerios but let's see what you two came up with!
c u later
mike
 
Hi Mike,

Our install is not very pretty, because it is only ever in there temporarily. I have scrap wood stacked a few inches high sitting outside the window so that the rear of the ac unit is supported. The front of the unit sits on the bottom of the window frame. I have rags rolled up and stuffed in around the sides and top to seal it. The ac unit, rags and wood all fit in the ac box for storage.

It does not look great, but it dropped the cabin temp to about 66F. The v-berth was a little warmer so we hung one of those O2Cool fans that blew from the cabin into the v-berth.

Rob & Karen

Ps. Would you be interested in a boat outing sometime this Fall?
 
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