CASE STUDY 2: BUILDING A UNIT FROM SCRATCH
When we decided to refit our 38ft sailboat for full-time cruising, my wife, Tara, insisted that we add pressurized hot water, a cabin heater and a refrigeration/freezer system. The first two I felt comfortable installing, but I had no experience with marine refrigeration and had read enough articles on the subject to know that there is no single right way to go about installing such a system on a boat. Refrigeration is one of
