Marine Refrigeration, Smarter.

One of the most neglected yet hardest working devices in your boat would be your refrigerator. When I was a kid going away on the family sail boat for the Christmas holidays we had no refrigeration. On our Raven 26 with a family of four we came up with all sorts of ingenious ideas for keeping food over those 4 to 6 weeks away(what ever happened to those long Christmas breaks?)We would get a tray of tomatoes green, only to have them all ripen at once.Dad would go to the bulk gasses depot with a chilly bin and come back with a solid block of dry ice to drop in the ice box in the fridge.I remember how cool it was to see all the vapour pouring out,but it never lasted long. Or the constant trips ashore for ice from the local shop (which we loved as we would always get a Fruju ice block at the same time.
Well fast forward to today and the average 40ft boat has a fridge and freezer that is able to keep food fresh as long as you you can at home. To get to this stage there has been a progression in refrigeration. From ice boxes to thermo-electric to the complex and maintenance dependant engine driven hold over(eutectic) systems to the new ultra efficient DC 12v-24v units that imitates what you have running your fridge/freezer at home.
Now more than ever we have been converting those engine driven units to the compact DC systems with the result that there are pipes, belts and other old bulky components in a pile on the dock and a compact, efficient, temperature stable fridge on board doing its job, quietly.
One of the main advantages with these DC units is the fridge can be left to run while you are away from the boat as your battery charger can easily replace what's being used, so you come to the boat and find everything cold and ready to go.
So if you want to get away from the constant maintenance, noisy engine running and the chore of emptying the fridge or freezer when you leave the boat then let us know. We will measure up and quote a DC fridge or freezer that won't put a chill on your budget just in your food.