Larry W4CSC wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

I think having the hatch open over your face is an advantage, and not
a disadvantage. I sleep better if I know I don't have to keep waking
up to see if it is raining. It's bad enough that I have to keep
waking up to check on the anchor and anchor light. .

Hee hee.....I put a screen into the hatch over the V-berth in that marina
that's in Mosquito Bay near Ponce Inlet, FL. God they were just eating us
ALIVE! I clicked on the cabin light and the mosquitoes that had already
gotten their fill of my blood were being held IN the cabin in droves by my
screen.....

I never want to sleep near Mosquito Bay again...no thanks! I spent the
night in the marina office the rentacop let me into laying on the table by
the TV in the captain's lounge....

We have screens over all the opening ports, and can put one into the
companionway hatch and the overhead hatches. They aren't fine enough
for no-see-ums though. (particularly bad on the gas dock at
Frenchman's Marina) In that case, we just have to shut the boat up
and suffer in the heat. We have fans but not A/C.


grandma Rosalie
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