There are a couple of things that help.

Shade is life. A tarp over the boom can reduce cabin temps 20 degrees
or more.

A wash down pump can be used to spray water on the hull and decks to cool them.
That's necessary even when the AC is being used or the boat will never shake off
the noon day sun.

But the real way is you simply acclimate to the heat.
I don't normally complain at 100 degrees - until it's 100 for thirty
days in a row. Then, I figure we've earned bragging rights.

It takes a few weeks out in the heat, proper diet and hydration, and some guts.

People lived her for hundreds of years before Mr. Collins figured out his
apparatus for treating the air...




Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:48:52 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

I wonder how the Texans and other gulf cruisers handle the heat when
they cruise if they don't have A/C.

That's a good question and I can partially answer it - A/C. My son
has been using the Grady which has A/C in the step down. From what
he's told me, it gets hot there even at night when the temps are in
the high 70s. No cross ventilation in the cuddy. I can speak to the
cuddy being a little uncomfortable when I took it down to Charleston a
couple of months ago.

http://www.gradywhite.com/336/ - click on the cabin tour.

And we've got a Honda EU3000i on the boat to run the A/C.

I'll give you a personal evaluation when I go down in August. :)

For a short trip sleeping on deck is a possibility, but I think when
you get to week you want to dive into a cool berth when nightime
temps stay high, below decks is hotter, and it's raining.
I'm willing to torture myself a bit - but I'm a man.

Not me. My physiological heat control circled the bowl in SEA and only
got worse when I lived down South for a few years in MS and LA. I hate
the cold and I hate the heat.

I'm only comfortable between the temperatures of 68 and 80 degrees
which means I probably should move to Hawaii. :)