In my younger days I spent a couple of years stationed on a little Navy base on Guam.
Coming from NW Oregon, I was amazed by the average humidity there.
Just checked the forecast there for today, and some things never change!
Of course that duty station was waaaay better than any assignment to the 'Nam.... !
Yowsa!
I shouldn't be so smug, though. Our youngest has settled down in Tennessee and just married a wonderful young lady there. So it's possible my wife and I, both southern California natives, might find ourselves relocating--especially if grandkids come into the mix at some point.
So my gloating post, forever archived on the internet, may come back to haunt me....
BTW: If we did move there, I'd take up sailing on Kentucky Lake. Lots more isolated cruising destinations there for anchoring out than in southern California, actually. Catalina is swell and all that, but after the first thousand trips or so--I've been sailing there for close to 55 years--one does get a bit jaded.
(Apologies for the thread drift. FWIW, I too have an umbrella instead of a dodger, at least partially inspired by Christian's earlier posts on the subject. I dislike dodgers for all the same reasons Christian does, but I confess that I've never actually owned a boat with one. Mine is a
Magma, though the mount it came with is a bit different from what is shown in that link. Mine mounts on the aft side of the bridge deck. It lives most of its life in the starboard quarter berth (i.e., the garage), and I can deploy it from inside the cabin, standing at the companion way and leaning over into the cockpit. It does block the sun coming into the cabin fairly well, sometimes, though the way Christian has his positioned is even better for dealing with that issue.)