Keep your cool

[Herm. Beeck]

With temps soaring, how do you all keep the cabin cool?
What are the best air movers while at anchor or under way?
!2V fans, down the hatch sheets, wet blankets?

[Dimitri-2000X-Tampa]

Haha, I saw the subject heading and thought this was another post about not yelling at your crew!

The best way to make air move through a Mac powersailer is to open the front hatch (with hatch lid vertical) and then go real fast with the motor!

If you are at anchor or otherwise bow into the wind, they sell these "scoop" devices that amplify the airflow into the hatch. I think putting up tarps like Scott did, or getting something like those shadetree (?) canopies to keep the sun off of the deck is the only reasonable way to keep your cool in the blazing sun or with no wind. I've jerry rigged a big tarp over the boat when its on its trailer and it really does make a huge difference in the cabin temps. Its just not something easy to deploy on the water without all the hooks and things all ready to go.

[Sloop John B]

There's a good article on ventilation in this weeks sailnet newsletter.

I tried to post the address but it tells me to 'refresh' for being so idle, and that doesn't even seem to work.

How are you guys able to post and hide these huge three line gibberish addresses?

Basically, it deals with having two openings, deck hatch and cabin hatch. Then it goes into cowl vents and dowser(?) boxes (to catch the rain and spray). I get the impression one would need about eight of these on deck to stumble over.

My conclusion was that good ventilation is essential but economically unfeasible.

[Dimitri-2000X-Tampa]

If you are only getting a broadside breeze, you may want to install a porthole hatch on both sides. I had these on my O'day and they work well for crosswinds.

[Duane Dunn, Allegro]

One of the nice things about the chute scoops is you can fly them facing any direction. You could pu one on the front hatch facing to the side, or even the stern and it will funnel air down below. They were lifesavers on our bareboat charter in the BVI's.

Sloop, you do the alternate version of the URL tag. Mouse over it in the post dialog box and you will get the help. Follow the model after the 'or'.

I don't type all the long urls. I just go to the page I want to link to, select the address then do a copy. Come back here and type the left square bracket then 'url=', do a paste to put in the copied URL, add the right square bracket, type the text I want to be highlighted, then finish up with the left square bracket, '/url', and the right square bracket.

[Frank C]

Sloop,

Another way of describing BB code is shown below. Just for illustration, BB instructions are shown in red, and your URL and text entries are shown in green. Insert your URL code (green) between the (red) square brackets, something like this:
[color=green]http: //sailnet.com/collec ... color=red][/b] . . . and be sure to remember the BB closing statement (shown red) after your description. Another hint . . . you can always press the "reply-to" button to see the exact "BB" coding that somebody has used.

If you press "reply-to" and look at this paragraph, you'll see the actual code required for the article: Sailnet Article on Ventilation
But, don't bother to study the red/green examples above, they'd just be confusing ...