opelmanta1900 wrote:Must suck to smoke cigars in Florida, Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, the Dominican, and anywhere else near the equator...
I have a good deal of experience with smoking cigars in Florida, in fact a total worst-case scenario.
I used to vacation (and really should again, it's been too long) in a direct-oceanfront house where the foundation was around 10 feet from the sand.
Result? Constant stiff ocean breeze 24x7 plus super-high humidity all the time (I mean, it's Florida, plus there's the ocean RIGHT THERE!), both of which wreak havoc on cigars while you're smoking them.
Solution? Found a cardboard box, opened the top flaps vertically, duct-taped three of them together in the vertical position, left the fouth flap bent downward. Result: a really tall box, open on the top, and with 3 sides full-height and one side half-height. I put an ashtray inside, and aimed the half-height side of the box away from the ocean, leaving the 3 tall sides to deflect and reduce the ocean breeze. I also kept the cigar in the ashtray whenever I wasn't actually puffing (no holding it in my hand in the direct breeze). Also, no maduros. Mostly Connecticuts, as they were least affected by the humidity.
If any of you lads are beachside in Florida sometime, try that. It's not hard to scrounge up a cardboard box, and if you have a weighty (e.g. big and ceramic) ashtray, it'll keep the box from blowing away. If not, add rocks or other weights at the corners inside the box, all around the ashtray.
An alternate solution I've used is to simply drive the convertible onto the beach, park it, drop the top but raise the windows. Excellent breeze-killer so (non-maduro) cigars smoke great, but you still have panoramic vision (the only window frame is the windshield, nothing else) and all the sounds and scents of the beach, plus you can get a tan at the same time! Downside - requires a convertible, which is a problem for most people, and a driving/parking-approved beach, of which there are not many.
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