Thursday 27 May 2011
We spent the week getting the boat ready for Summer friends and family, the first of whom were arriving the following Sunday. All the windows had leaked badly during the winter, so replacing those was a main priority. In the event we did the two windows over the aft cabins and the forward cabin hatch before we ran out of time. At least the cabins should be dry and snug - be warned, don't take a saloon berth if it looks like rain.
Meanwhile, at Goat Bottom, we'd been struggling with the fridge for some time.
The one that came with the camper van had never worked. We'd considered getting it repaired, but it operates on a 12v circuit, whereas we'd installed a 24v one. Keith had left another one in the van - brand new, very small, and working on 24v, so that was what we'd been using - set up in the shed. But as the weather hotted up, we were finding we couldn't keep vegetables more than a day in the heat of the van, and we were juggling fridge space all the time.
We considered all different sizes and types of fridge, ideally wanting one that would fit the available space in the van, but the only one like that was a special camper van one and cost 700 euros (reduced price). So on Thursday evening we decided to just get the most economical fridge we could find and install it in the shed. It's not so great a hardship to have the fridge away from the kitchen, and we could put the little on in the camper.
Here is the new fridge: Economy level A+ (super-efficient - we hope!). It takes up slightly too much room in the shed, but we're very grateful to have it. The little one in the van didn't work tho'. It takes just that bit too much electricity to run two fridges, and the batteries were suffering. And it made too much noise at night, humming and grumbling and switching on and off. So now we just have the shed fridge - a bit of a walk, but some people have kitchens bigger than the walk between van and shed.
We spent the week getting the boat ready for Summer friends and family, the first of whom were arriving the following Sunday. All the windows had leaked badly during the winter, so replacing those was a main priority. In the event we did the two windows over the aft cabins and the forward cabin hatch before we ran out of time. At least the cabins should be dry and snug - be warned, don't take a saloon berth if it looks like rain.
Meanwhile, at Goat Bottom, we'd been struggling with the fridge for some time.
The one that came with the camper van had never worked. We'd considered getting it repaired, but it operates on a 12v circuit, whereas we'd installed a 24v one. Keith had left another one in the van - brand new, very small, and working on 24v, so that was what we'd been using - set up in the shed. But as the weather hotted up, we were finding we couldn't keep vegetables more than a day in the heat of the van, and we were juggling fridge space all the time.
We considered all different sizes and types of fridge, ideally wanting one that would fit the available space in the van, but the only one like that was a special camper van one and cost 700 euros (reduced price). So on Thursday evening we decided to just get the most economical fridge we could find and install it in the shed. It's not so great a hardship to have the fridge away from the kitchen, and we could put the little on in the camper.
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