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There are some people who can work outside here in north Florida and stay relatively dry, but I am not one of them. Even at rest in the shade I can begin to drip in a matter of minutes. Yesterday, while spraying finish primer on my deck, I probably spent as much time mopping up the sweat as spraying. I had tied a towel aroung my head anticipating trouble, but that was only part of it. The respirator would get wet and drip from my chin. I quickly soaked the long sleeved shirt I was wearing and water would run down my arm onto the spray gun and drip off the spray head. I stopped after one coat and moved to the topsides.
In sanding bottom paint at the beginning of the summer, I wore a coverall, respirator, gloves, goggles, and a balkava made of a T shirt. Regular soaking was a matter of course. At one point in the process I reached down to pick up something off the ground and was amazed when a stream of sweat trickled ot of my sleeve. It's funny because I don't recall getting so wet when I spent all those hours sanding and grinding the deck. It must be that the tool's cooling fan did some cooling for me also.
I keep thinking it's a matter of acclamation; that if air conditioning weren't so prevalent I would adjust. After all, people lived here before there was electricity. They evidently got along. As a child I would run around outside all day and my mother would beg me to come indoors in the heat of the day. But it seems the older I get, the worse it gets. I'LL rest and hand sand today, then go at the deck again tomorrow. In the meantime I'll try to come up with a better strategy.

Chris Miller
Seafarer 31 YAWL

Chris:

Hey, I feel your pain...or should I say humidity! I am in Jacksonville, and dealing with losing pounds through perspiration. Late last summer, I began grinding off the years upon years of bottom paint on a late model Sea Sprite 23 (#217)...in full tyvek!!! Yeah, I was soaked when I emerged from those through-away suits.

Brian

I could certainly loose some pounds.

Last evening was the first this season in which I poured sweat into the FD as I filed and sanded fillets under the frames. I wonder, does salt affect later applications of epoxy? Or varnish? I'm getting close to ready for the second coat-out of the interior; how am I gonna' keep it dry? Latex paint would not be so bad.

No doubt acclimitization is key, not to mention age and attitude; this past couple of weeks were the first of real summer heat and humidity here in Philly. Felt like 10 degrees worse. Sunday mornings' NOAA stating that Dover (DE) had: Temperature 77 degrees; Dew Point 77 degrees; Relative Humidity 99.9% tells it all. The day went on to dump some 4.5" of rain in a couple hours in Philly.

Sorry nothing personal, just cant help myself....

acclimatization

You have to be canny to tell the difference between good honest misspelling and bad typing, and you'd never guess how many times I tried a variation; they all looked wrong. Still dripping in Philly.

But Hey! 85 of 88 fillets done as of 7:30 last night. As General Haig said, 'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'

As General Haig said, 'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'

I thought he said "I am in charge here"? Anyway, sailboats don't do well in tunnels.

'There's light at the end of the tunnel.'


That is the headlight of an on-comming train.

you'd never guess how many times I tried a variation; they all looked wrong

I know the feeling, but I have a very helpful tool. My browser puts a red dotted line under the word until I get it right. If I can't make it go away I resort to the dictionary (also on my computer). It has helped me purge some persistent mistakes from my repertoire.