Larry wrote:

Don W wrote in news:LYexg.11933
:


;-) Actually, I'm considering doing something
worse, which is relocating the unit to somewhere
else in the boat. Right now, its completely
taking up the only closet that has any hang-up
space in the rear cabin :-(

D


Hmm....I'm not very "nautical". Tugboats and other commercial vessels
did what I think is the right thing....scrap all this marine crap and put
a Coleman RV rooftop AC on top of that leaky hatch over the main salon
with the louvers pointed fore and aft. To hide it from the purists, have
the canvas shop make you a Ships Wheel Cover or one with nautical-looking
logos or flags or knots. It does make a dandy deck seat if the boom
isn't swinging. Tell the curious it's the "safety box" on deck after you
hide the Coleman logo in canvas...(c;

I talked a fellow in a nice catamaran into scrapping his crappy, always
clogged with something, marine AC and putting a Coleman on each pontoon.
They like to froze to death because they had the thermostat too cool..(c;

Rooftop air units have all the "heat loads" OUTSIDE the boat, not in the
closet with the intake heating up and eating your Btus. Once you get the
hot compressor, hot seawater evaporator and hot fan motor OUT of the air
conditioned space, it takes a few thousand LESS Btu to cool the boat! I
also like the RV units with "Easy Start" kits in them. INstead of that
huge starting current blinking the lights, Easy Start units SLOWLY start
the compressor, using no more power to start the compressor than to run
it. No surge current, you can use a lot smaller genset to power it.

Ok, this commercial is over. Just look at your current installation and
see how many lockers, cupboards, storage spaces you'd regain hauling out
all those nasty hoses, ducts, the unit itself.

Oh, I forgot to mention the rooftop AC is 1/10th the NOISE inside the
boat while you're sleeping!

Yep, I've considered replacing this AC with an RV
unit, and may yet do just that. The only place I
could put it would be over the hatch in the
V-Berth. We'll see...

Don W.