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30 litres sounds remarkably small for an installed compressor fridge. Ours is 55 litres, powered by a Danfoss 35F compressor. Ours is a custom one, water cooled for Greece but probably OTT for the Baltic. Consider transferring the innards to a bigger box with lots of insulation.

That's the approach I adopted. No modifications to the boat, just take care

Is this also for a Sadler 32? One of the problems (mine is a 34 but similar) is that the gas locker is completely open to the cockpit. The original flawed concept was that gas would flow down the cockpit drains, which we now know does not happen. So either, arrange for the cockpit drains not to...

Presumably indirectly cooled, using coolant? Why would they need anodes? The heat exchanger may do though as it carries seawater

Sorry no, but I feel sure the marina could put you in touch

A few years ago now but we came across a guy building arches at Port St Louis du Rhone. He was making wonderful kit. Don't know if this would interest you.

I suspect that Airdecks have their own manufacturer who supply to dinghy makers. Many seem to have the same dimensions. Hopefully it won't be difficult to find a new one.

I would have said it was glass but both lights have grilles over them so not easy to tell. Quite happy to accept they are acrylic though.

More technical progress! 👎 The headlights on my 2007 motorhome were in a very poor state in 2020. I could have abraded them back to clear I guess but I needed to modify them for right hand driving (deflector stickers are OK for the MOT equivalent in France) so instead I simply replaced them...

I have the opposite. Red Flash 1300 AGM starter, now 10 years old, 3 x Winner Solar flooded lead acid domestic bank, 5 years old. I agree with Paul, I never use 'both' on my switch. If starting on the Red Flash I charge this for 30 mins or so, then switch to domestic. I have a dual PWM...

Furthermore I understand that drop testing (really a dead short across the terminals) is terminal (😀) for leisure type batteries as it can distort the narrow, delicate plates and short them.

I am one of the admins for a FB page on anchoring. Some posters regularly advise that 1 or even 2 sizes above the recommendation for the boat should be purchased. It seems to me that the majority of these posters are in USA but I could be mistaken.

If I remember correctly my article discussed the relative proportions of tip loading on a variety of anchors. This is not the same property as tip pressure. Tip loading is the property that causes an anchor to set rather than skid over the surface. Pressure requires the input of mass, which in...

Siphons are quite difficult to achieve over a reasonably tall U-bend in 1.5 inch hose. Is it possible that the holding tank vent is blocked, allowing partial vacuum in the tank? That seems a possibility.

Is it fully run in? New bores will leak a little oil for a time.