Fallguy,
As someone who retired to the coast from the upper Midwest I wanted to pass along a few things I’ve learned.
In the coastal areas of Texas and the Deep South you will be living in a semi tropical area. The winters are like a Minnesota fall. The summers are when you go back to Minnesota, at least for July and August. Spring starts in February. Summer starts in April and ends in October. Fall is glorious!. Best time of the year.
Oh, and the bugs. They are bigger, more numerous and there’s a different one about every other month.
The sand gnats around here are sometimes called Yankee repellent. The giant cock roaches are called Palmetto Bugs to make them seem nicer and less scary.
Don’t get a house without a screen porch and make sure there are ceiling fans in every room and on the porches. Just saying.
But after a few years you get acclimated and need a sweater if it gets below 70 degrees. I get tired of wearing shorts about this time of year and look forward to it actually being cool enough to be able to wear pants. Maybe next week it will be cool enough.
We have a wood burning fireplace, but it rarely gets cold enough to build an inside fire. Yard fires on the other hand are common, frequent and great fun.
If you don’t know already, grits are eaten with butter, salt and pepper for breakfast and as a side dish for fried fish. Cheese is sometimes mixed in, but never sugar. It ain’t Malt-o-meal.
Hurricane season normally starts in June and ends in November. It isn’t the wind that kills you it’s the flooding. There’s a reason things are built up on stilts. When the big one comes, head for higher ground.
Texas is a bit different than the rest of South, so your on your own for everything else.
A friend told me today that it was a great day to be alive. I said, “Yes it is, but the best day to be alive is tomorrow.”
Wishing you many more tomorrows to enjoy the beautiful boat you are building.
Woods Skoota 32DM
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As someone who lives in the cyclone (hurricane) zone in tropical north Queensland, I can relate to Browndog's post - great advice!
Here we talk about the climate being 3 months of hell (summer) and nine months of heaven. I think I have worn a coat for half a day, just once in 35 years.
Our cyclones will knock your house down, but you have to be unlucky to be in the direct path of one when it crosses the coast. Localised flooding can be an issue, but storm surges less so - although the greatest loss of life occurred from a storm surge in the late 1800's. Our house is built to the latest cyclone specs, is above the 500 yr flood level (confirmed a couple of years ago!), and is well insured and paid up! We don't run from cyclones here but rather we hunker down and wait them out! Once it becomes obvious where they are going to cross the coast, If its not close I generally go to bed!
Once you have acclimatized its hard to go back to the cold country! I was working further west last week - where the temperature mid-afternoon was 106oF, in the shade! You get used to it - and I would rather be hot than cold.
And don't forget all the stuff that wants to kill you! We don't have bears and mountain lions - but we have disease ridden insects; deadly spiders, snakes, and marine stingers; crocodiles and sharks!
Here we talk about the climate being 3 months of hell (summer) and nine months of heaven. I think I have worn a coat for half a day, just once in 35 years.
Our cyclones will knock your house down, but you have to be unlucky to be in the direct path of one when it crosses the coast. Localised flooding can be an issue, but storm surges less so - although the greatest loss of life occurred from a storm surge in the late 1800's. Our house is built to the latest cyclone specs, is above the 500 yr flood level (confirmed a couple of years ago!), and is well insured and paid up! We don't run from cyclones here but rather we hunker down and wait them out! Once it becomes obvious where they are going to cross the coast, If its not close I generally go to bed!
Once you have acclimatized its hard to go back to the cold country! I was working further west last week - where the temperature mid-afternoon was 106oF, in the shade! You get used to it - and I would rather be hot than cold.
And don't forget all the stuff that wants to kill you! We don't have bears and mountain lions - but we have disease ridden insects; deadly spiders, snakes, and marine stingers; crocodiles and sharks!
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All I can add is the temp in Houston is 71 deg. with 99% humidity this morning, which is very normal here.
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The one good bit is we'll get Gulf winds. That is also the bad bit.
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FallGuy, post some good photos of your build, inside and out!! Thank you, Jeff
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I was in Houston in June a few years ago. Walked out of air conditioned hotel one morning and my glasses fogged over just like they would do here in the winter. That is the only place I have ever had that happen.OrangeQuest wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 5:03 am All I can add is the temp in Houston is 71 deg. with 99% humidity this morning, which is very normal here.
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It is about to get cold here and I have to winterize the place. No fishing unless on the hard stuff and I have never liked it much.
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Barefoot in my tree stand...
But, once you wrap your head around it you'll never go back like the other people who move south.
Sweating in a long sleeve camo t shirt. Get ready for a life change! And Gulf breezes...not so much in the summer like the Atlantic or Pacific. But, once you wrap your head around it you'll never go back like the other people who move south.
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Hit play to see the fight against north and south. (Warm moist air from the Gulf fighting cold dry air from the north) We started getting thunderstorms at 4 this morning, calm for now. Forecast for today is calling for up to 2" of rain.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps? ... +TX&zoom=7
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps? ... +TX&zoom=7
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Re: Woods Skoota 32DM
FG1k,
Where are your outboards relative to hull centerline? Just had an “experience” at the marina with motor well mounted outboards that are “inside” the hulls (between cockpit and inner edge of hull). The mounting killed maneuvering and requires a big upgrade to HP. I think yours are transom mounted.
Where are your outboards relative to hull centerline? Just had an “experience” at the marina with motor well mounted outboards that are “inside” the hulls (between cockpit and inner edge of hull). The mounting killed maneuvering and requires a big upgrade to HP. I think yours are transom mounted.
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