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RE: Sailwithme #2: Vassholmene, near Oslo
It is clear that low temperatures , as I think they are, are not a problem for you man...Do you think you will survive in warmer conditions as we have at Barcelona on summer? (30C + 90% of humidity)
Of course. We do enjoy saunas ...
Except for that, visiting hotter climates, it's terrible the first days, but one gets acclimatized eventually. Once we were travelling around as tourists in China while they had above 37C (100F) in the air. I was always wondering if it was possible to survive at all in above-100F, I guess I got my answer to that. But we were sweating a lot ...
We were in Shanghai, there was a giant KFC standing right next to some Chinese fast food shop of similar size. And we needed to see the toilet. Well, we didn't come to China to eat at KFC, did we? (oh, that's another digression - after staying for a longer time in China, I tend to crave western food and pizzas, so we do tend to visit quite many restaurants serving western food). We queue up and before ordering the food, we ask where they have the toilet. Answer? Go out the door, go into KFC, and ... they have a toilet! Well, we ate at KFC instead then. My wife was queuing up for the toilet for so long ... and when coming back, with a joke: since she was so wet from sweating, she could probably just have been peeing on herself, nobody would have noticed the difference ...
Temperature deltas can be something of the worst, both in arctic winters as well as the tropic summers. In the winter time, we tend to be very well dressed - and then we may board a bus or enter a shop or something, often without undressing, maybe directly from -15C to 18C - a jumping up 32 Kelvins. Well, I quite often do undress in such situations if I know it will last for more than some few minutes, or I will start sweating.
It's something of the same with air condition. I was working for two weeks before changing the role to a tourist, and during those two weeks we stayed mostly inside, just briefly being outside before jumping into an airconditioned. In such circumstances you don't want to be trapped out on the street for a longer while, because it's uncomfortably hot, and one will start sweating. As tourists we had it the opposite way - we were sweating all the time, and it was really bad i.e. to visit a shopping centre with aircon, when being soaked wet and then moving from 40C to 20C, we tended to start freezing rather fast.
Our boat is trapping heat readily when the sun is shining, in the summer time we may often have temperatures up to 35C inside the cabin, even if it's just 25C on the outside.