Ice Box

[turtonr]

We are new owners of a 26M and can't see any obvious area that has been used previoulsy for an ice box. We keen to hear what others have in place and wonder what the best options are for an ice box in terms of type and installation.
Many thanks

[pokerrick1]

Congratulations and welcome aboard.

Do a search on this site of "Cooler locations" and you get about 500 hits. Scroll down into the second page of hits and look for SPECIFIC hits with cooler in the title, starting with K9Kampers thread in Mods. You will wind up with many, many possibilities as this was a much discussed topic.

BTW, my boat is in the water with electricity so I have a $69 thermocooler that gets everything very cold when plugged in and then, when underway, it stays cold for a few days. I keep it under the dinette, mirror side that I don't sit at. If I need an extra cooler, I'm afraid I go the lazy way and place it under the dinette also.

Good luck and great sailing!

Rick

[rockman]

I locate my waeco fridge/freezer in the little spot in the rear berth. Fits well. I was going to fit it on the seat opposite the head - as its space that is not used for anything else...

[pokerrick1]

I guess the Aussies still call it an ice box - - - while we Americans have evolved to "cooler".

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

Rick

[Night Sailor]

for overnight use it doesn't matter much as long as you can secure it in place, out of the way.

For longer cruises, like a week, pick a place that will allow you to add enough inches of insulation to all sides, so that you have at least four inches. That will keep whatever you have, as cold as it started out being, except in the hottest of SW summers.

[richandlori]

We strapped our ice chect across from the head on our M. Worked good and gave an extra "counter top" to place all the junk.

[baldbaby2000]

I posted a mod showing how we used a standard Coleman cooler under the rear table seat. click here for 26M cooler mod. Hope this helps.

Daniel

[Lease]

I guess the Aussies still call it an ice box - - - while we Americans have evolved to "cooler".

So advanced. The Iceman still comethseths, twice a week

More of an application thing I think. If it is fixed, or molded in the boat - icebox. If you can take it out, - cooler. Actually, for a zillion years they went by the name of the company that first started here with those horrible polystyrene coolers - ESKY; as in "Don't forget the Esky, darl".

But to return to the thread, it is just one more penalty paid for buying an M. <runs>

[Catigale]

[richandlori]

5AMPS when the 12v compressor is running, which is about 10hrs/day with my crappy ice box insulation...so that's 50AH/day.

BUT...you can see what it at the bottom of the Ice Box...

[dennisneal]

I like your taste when it comes to beer!

Your ice box looks superb!

[Boblee]

Have a 70l evercool mounted opposite the head and held down by straps it pulls about 4amps on boost and 2.5 on economy or translated 4amps to freeze in the tropics and 2.5 below the tropics except in summer then 4 amps running flat out anywhere LOL and as far as I am concerned an ice box is a box relying on ice but a cooler could be otherwise assisted?
We have two 65w panels to supply power when motor is not running and use one start battery and two 70amp house.