[Pblais]

Some freezer space is nice to have. You need to note that refrigeration uses more power on an economical cruising boat that almost everything else. Freezers and large refrigerators combine to make the power daily demand a whole lot higher than you may be able to accommodate on the hook. Your energy budget on a boat has one important factor. No matter how much battery capacity you have you still need to pay it all back regularly. If you can't charge it, you can't use it. The basic boat fridge is going to cost about 70 amp hours per day in warm weather. The big freezer wit the big fridge is a lot more. More insulation is never a bad idea.

Since I'm not on your boat I think I could live well with no refrigeration on it. You see it does depend about how you choose to live and not how others choose. For us we did last summer and this one with no electric refrigeration - just ice. It sucks. We will be replacing the fridge with a similar unit we used to have. It's 6 cubic ft of space with part divided so it can maintain frozen food in small quantities and spills over to the main fridge. That means we can have a few weeks of food and eat what we like vs maybe 5 days and need ice every other day with less storage space since about half of it is ice. Cold drinks are then possible.

if you resupply often ice is fine for maybe three days. Fresh meat might keep a week. Sort of depends on what it is and the setup.

So the correct answer is e. It depends entirely on your lifestyle. It also imposes energy demands you can never escape. What you need is not always what you want. A happy life is making the two get closer.