Couldn't buy a breeze...

Posted By: Tom T House "Salsa"
Date: 4/21/08 12:36p.m.

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In Response To: Anyone enjoy Cortez in summer? (Baja Scott)

I've enjoyed the Sea of Cortez for a week or two, here and there during every month of the year... That has included the summer months, which I really enjoyed also. Indeed, I have yet to have a trip down there that I didn't enjoy to the max. With that said, there have been several times, during the summer months one cold buy a breeze of any sort at any time of the day. Add a bit of humidity and ...well....it's a tropically hot paradise. Several things helped us a lot. 1. Do day trip boating and grab a cheap air conditioned motel at night. 2. Take with you a spray bottle that you can use to spray yourself down when it's so hot you can't sleep. Then if it is less than 100 percent humidity, the minimal evap will help cool you enough to get back to sleep... 3. Some take the cheapest air conditioner one can get from Home Depot or where ever and a small generator to run it. Rig a sleeve that will direct the air into your boat's cabin and cool it just enough to make it comfortable, then shut it off and enjoy the boat's motion at anchor as you drift off to sleep or back to sleep if the heat woke you up. 4. Play so hard during the day that you sleep like a rock until the morning sun bakes you awake and than play again til you drop. The heat is something you will acclimate to given time and fatigue. For us occasionally it wasn't the heat but the no-see-ums.... I wonder what other tips others on this forum will add.... Tom