A New Fridge/Freezer

As many of you might know Sari Timur requires a fridge.  We do not drink warm beer!!! 

Many years ago our only fridge was a big box with a couple of holding plates and an engine driven air conditioner to freeze the plates.  When we set sail for Africa it started to act up.  And we limped with it for another couple of years.  Then Mark's parents came for a visit in Africa so we loaded up their luggage with a brand new SeaFrost system.  After returning to Singapore we added a shore power compressor as well. 

Many years later we cut the box in half and added a door type fridge and reused the other equipment to work in the smaller box.  Well after 28 years the African fridge started misbehaving again.  Since the newer DC powered air cooled fridges made for boats have improved so much we decided to go that route.  That meant we could get rid of the shore power system, and the engine driven system, heat exchangers and water pumps.  

We decided on a CoolBlue unit as we had heard good things about them.  So we ordered one and are happy to say it installed nicely.  At the warmest setting we have, it keeps the box below 22 degrees and it only runs every so often.  Probably too cold for beer but we can dial it down to be an actual freezer. We then can convert our Dometic Portable freezer into a fridge for drinks.  Sounds like a plan.  Here are some pics.

The Compressor,Condensor, and Dryer/Filter

Close Up

The New Holding Plate

It's Been A While

Wow we just realised that we have not done a post since Mark left for Dutch Harbor.  He returned at the end of January.  We have been doing fine.  The winter winds have been exceptional in Sitka this year but the shrink wrap is holding up ok.

We both have had our Covid vaccinations so we are good to go in that department.

Mark has been hard at work trying to fix the starboard side of the coach roof, like he did the port before we left Seward.  He is nearly done, a few more days should see it through.  For those who do not remember we developed a leak on the port side where the deck joins the coach roof. We also had a small leak on the starboard side but it was very small.  

The project entails cutting the glass away on the coach roof from the deck to a couple of inches up.  He has to work in 8 inch sections as that is how much the external heater can heat to make the repair epoxies kick off.  He has to dig out all the rotten wood and dig down to below deck level, then fill all that back up with epoxy, glass, and filler.  On the port side there was a fair amount of rot so the job was bigger but the digging was easier.  On the starboard side the wood is pretty much intact so he has to use the grinder, chisels and drills to get the wood out to below deck level.

To save a 1000 words here are a couple of pictures.

This is a hole dug out

that is all the part finished plus around the corner to the mainmast