Sorry, Mooron, have to disagree. You forgot to mention the sandflies,
the mosquitoes carrying malaria, the cockroaches big enough to rest
your beer can on, the sticky heat and high humidity day after day
after day with a hot bright white sun beating down and heating
everything so hot that you can see the heat shimmer and get cooked
from the deck alone. You forgot to mention the gallons of sunblock you
need to keep from being fried. You forgot to mention the annoyance of
having to run engines or gensets to keep stuff cool, and the annoying
neighbours who do the same thing.

The tropics are OK for a short holiday on a charter boat, preferably
with aircon, but for living/cruising? Nah. Give me cool climates
where you can snuggle up with someone at anchor after a busy day, and
not melt down in a pool of mutual sweat, skin peeling stickily from
skin......

I like cool climates. Where I live now is just about perfect from my
POV.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0300, "Capt. Mooron"
wrote:

Crap!... to both of your sentiments regarding cold weather sailing being
more comfortable than warm weather sailing. Nothing beats a warm tropical
breeze pressing canvas to glide your vessel over a turquoise blue sea that
is so transparent you can see the bottom at 60 feet. Unencumbered by excess
clothing and free to enjoy the warmth of the sun while ice cubes crackle and
hiss in your rum punch. At anchor the water invites you to swim... not dares
you to enter. As the coolness of the evening approaches and you rinse off
the salt and sweat with a cool evening shower before retiring to the cockpit
for a sundowner while enjoying the music of the steel drum band on shore
drifting out to your mooring.... I doubt envy is the first thing that
springs to mind when and if you think of sailing up north.

CM

"Scout" wrote in message
...
| Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no sweat,
| not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both taste
| better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping
bag,
| etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard.
| Scout
|
|
| "katysails" wrote in message
| ...
| Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! And
| while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the
| sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very
| pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled
| about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a really
| bad forecast with fronts reversing...
|
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| katysails
| s/v Chanteuse
| Kirie Elite 32
| http://katysails.tripod.com
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| "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
| and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein
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