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Old 02-21-2017, 07:45 PM   #14
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City: Gooding ID/Wrangell AK
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Capn Bill,

We started off with long trips in a 22 C-dory (7 days or so away from stores), moved up to a 25 C-dory (still 7 day trips) and went to a bigger slow boat. One of the first things we bought for the big boat was Dometic AC/DC refrigerator or freezer (depends on the temp your set). Six years later it is still running and is our freezer. We now can leave our dock with a freezer of frozen food, a full refrigerator, and enough other non perishable things to get us from May to mid June. By then we hit either Costco in Juneau or Walmart in Ketchikan to restock. We have a good bit of room for storage, but the key was the freezer. We have a cover for it so it can sit outside. It doesn't consume much power and if battery capacity is an issue, if you cool it down to 10-14 degrees while underway, overnight it will gain about 5-6 degrees as long as it you don't open it more than a couple of times.

Tom
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