"Roger Long" wrote in
:

I think adjusting my life style and diet on long cruises may be a
better option. I'm going north where I won't miss cold stuff as much
as I would going south.



Where you live I think what you need is a cold box against the hull so you
can route frigid seawater through a coil of stainless pipes inside the box
with a simple scoop on the hull, underwater, pointed forward to catch the
water going by. Just aft of the scoop, in the trailing low pressure zone,
warmed water from the "fridge" would be released back into the sea,
unnoticed by the greenies fearing it would warm the ocean.

Except for 3 days in August, as I remember swimming in Maine, our problem
would be to keep the beer from freezing solid.

Make the box large with large cooling pipes all the way around the inside
of it. Surplus copper tubing with a zinc pencil would last your lifetime.

I'm from the Finger Lakes of upstate NY. Cold beer there just means
hanging the sixpack off the stern on a line hanging down during the
fishing. Because we'd come back with no beer, the same line can be used as
a fish stringer if the damned fish were biting....(c;