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Bringing ice aboard provides adequate refrigeration for short and long cruises. Tips on how much to use, how to buy or make it, and how to make it last.
[SailNet, 16 January 2001]
Grab bag of facts and commentary to help choose and maintain a boat fridge and freezer - and how to do without one. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
A vendor′s selection of questions about choosing a refrigeration method. The answers favor their products, but are nevertheless informative.
[Sea Frost, Barrington, NH, USA]
Some thoughtful yet simple ideas for stowing anchor chain, creating a gimbaled companionway seat, know when your fridge is not functioning properly, and creating an inexpensive rubrail.
[Sail Jazz, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA]
A simple way to make sure you don′t discharge or even destroy your house battery by forgetting to turn off your refrigerator load.
[Yandina Ltd., Beaufort, SC, USA]
A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes focused on tips and tricks for the galley while cruising.
[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
Several useful tips, including how to increase the efficiency of your fridge or freezer by daily changing its size to match its contents.
[SailNet, 21 July 2003]
How to keep plastic basins, used for holding block ice, from cracking as the ice freezes.
[landlpardey.com, January 2002]
The authors recount a mysterious shut-down of their freezer and the methods they used to find and fix the fault in a complex system. 4 pages with photos.
[Blue Water Sailing, August 2003]
The author estimates that 134A refrigerant is 20-25% less efficient than the banned Freon 12. He switched to another refrigerant with good results. Caveats about the filling process.
[SetSail]
Calculating Your Electrical Needs
It is unfortunate that the standard for judging iceboxes has become volume, rather than quality.
A C&C owner
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