We Love the Windscoop! A Natural Air Conditioner

The days in the Pacific Northwest this year have been warmer than usual. We had a heat wave one week and those high 80s make our boat hot in the evenings.

Our neighbors have a Windscoop, or chute, to help with bringing air into the cabin. We were so hot that week instead of making one, as I have a pattern for one in my canvas book, we decided to order a Windscoop online, had it delivered. It arrived and wow how nice it is, keeps the boat cool and brings the wind right in.

I noticed our scoop is not 4 directional, it pretty much brings the air into the cabin from one direction. Currently, our boat is facing north, and most of our wind has been coming from the north or west, so we get nice breezes, especially in evening. When we have to replace this one I will either make or buy a 4 directional scoop to adjust for wind shifting automatically. 

With all our hatches and port windows open the bugs are coming in, which is driving me crazy, so the obvious next project is for mosquito netting over each hatch and window. We are not sure if the Mosquitos are unusually numerous this year because of the heat, but whatever the reason we know every evening we get inundated with Mosquitos. And we all have bites from them. I imagine we will do a netting over or inside the hatch and have to figure out how to secure and maintain a netting over the windows, a work in progress.