Keeping Our Boat Cool at a Marina in Summer Heat | ep 212
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Marina's are notoriously HOT! We DO NOT have marine air conditioners. So we had to get creative to survive the Texas summer while living at a dock. We're sharing what we have done to keep our sailboat cool in this intense summer heat.
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Love the way you sort out problems on the boat.....keep it up...
Greetings from Cape Town South Africa.....
Thank you for watching!! Can’t wait to visit your beautiful country. ❤️
We ordered a sunshade from Amazon before the end of the video. (Love that you folks keep it real.) Thanks! 😎👍💕
Awesome!! They make a huge difference. ❤️
That’s the way to do it great job
Thank you!
I live near South Padre Island and it gets seriously hot here too. I live in a duplex and I keep my AC set at 77. Though it gets up to 78 often. I use ceiling fans to keep the humidity at Bay.
Yep, South Texas heat is no joke!
Well, I am working on the boat on the hard in Maryland, and It is hot and humid. My body has acclimated a bit, normally it is about 84 when I go to sleep and about 77 when I wake up. Basically, miserable, hot, and sticky. With hatches open and fans blowing it gets about 94 down below during the day. I am ready for the day we splash, and I can have sub 80 degrees during the day!
Ooh that sucks for sure. We used that big AC unit for the three years we were on the hard. It was still hot but it helped. ❤️
God Bless All with your beautiful young families on your beautiful sailing boat and please enjoy what you have every day no matter what the weather is because life is too sorts . Me and my husband married 41years with 2 children and they both married and we have 7 grandchildrens with God Blessing and God Bless All with your beautiful sailing boat.
We are British canal boaters and in general we have the opposite trying to keep warm. Having said that it was 38 last week. Have fun😎
Yes!! Same for us during the winter!! We had multiple heaters running and a dehumidifier. Is there a perfect place to live on a boat?? 😂
I love you guys boat, it is coming alone good. I have all my family in Houston Texas, I miss all that rain. I am from Louisiana and my mom moved us to California when I was 17 years old but I try to go visit my family once a year.
Believe it or not it’s hardly rained at all this year. So weird!! Terrible drought for those who depend on it. But Hurricane season is supposed to be ramping up in a few weeks. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Spoondrifters wow I guest it’s a drought everywhere.
Great episode! Stay cool and stay safe Spoondrifter's crew! 👍👍👊👊
Thanks! Appreciate you following along. 😍
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We keep our thermostat at 78 deg. all summer, and we live in central Fl. We also use blankets at night. It's been about 90 outside every afternoon . It's hotter in Tx. and other states .
In Alaska 78 was a HOT summer day. It’s so crazy to be living in this heat. Definitely a learning experience. 😍
We’re guilty of working in the AC and coming home to a hot boat. It’s brutal. I wonder how long it will take us to accumulate to the ambient temperature while sailing. Oh wow, that’s a crazy storm. We had one like that a few weeks ago.
Yeah, that makes it hard for sure! I’m not sure I’m ever going to get used to 90 + degrees without AC. 😂
We're in Seattle Washington and our boat stays a nice 78°. Although I do like the sun shade idea. ... ⛵💯❤️
Sounds heavenly!!
Was 106 when I got back to Houston, heat index 117.
Soooo crazy!!
Another great video
Thank you!
You said you plan to be out of there by October, where will go from there?
First stop Houston area to take family sailing and finish out hurricane season then we’re headed for Florida.
I use a portable unit which sits inside and vents out Thur window. Could vent out Thur porthole window.
I hear those are awesome!!
Could you tell us the measurements for the hatch ac cover. Thanks
Hmmmm. Do you mean the insulated part? It would depend on your hatch size. Basically, open your hatch to the right angle. Measure for the side pieces and the top. Todd glued and screwed the insulation together. The fabric we wrapped it up with was an old sail cover we had laying around.
now you've set this all up, r u going to take the a/c's with you or r u planning on anchoring out most of the time? lovely video, thanks.
We take them off each time we leave the dock. It takes about 2 hours to get the boat ready to go. We won’t take the A/C with us when we leave Texas but we will keep the sunshades.
Bahamas in winter Maine in summer.
Right! We’re thinking about a route between Alaska and Hawaii or Mexico too. 😂
@@Spoondrifters Alaska in winter you'll have no issues with cooling, but I wouldn't recommend it in a fibreglass boat 🤣
There is always the summer in the northern hemisphere and summer in the souther hemisphere, cross the equator in spring and autumn approach.
When at anchor, shade and ventilation, boat usually points to windward so wind catchers are useful.
Make sure not to run those aircondioners at to low of a setting it will cause the coils to ice up and it will not cool as well
Yep, not pushing them that hard. 👍
Cool video. Lol. Stay cool.
😂😂😂 Thanks for watching. 👍
Can you swim where your boat is docked?
Some people do but it’s pretty gross. 🤢
Have boat sail somewhere cooler??
Ha! Right? We talked about sailing home to Alaska and staying there. 😝
I like the corrugated inserts for windows. Same stuff that those annoying political campaign signs are made from. You may have inadvertently found a good use for them!
Ha! 😂 Yes that’s the stuff. We used to recycle those signs as backer boards for our target stands on the range. 😝
@@Spoondrifters Awesome you didn't even need to print targets? 🤣
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Only 11 minutes!! that’s all come on guys
Sometimes that’s how it goes. 😝