[Vasco]

Get the biggest freezer and fridge you can handle with your power consumption. You will never regret it. For some cruising is camping on the water. They live without refrigeration but this is a small minority now. However, for the majority of us, cruising without refrigeration will be quite a change from our shoreside lifestyle. Do you want to live like that?

Part of the reason I bought my present boat was because of the freezer and front loading fridge. I've never met a cruiser that complained that they had too big a freezer or too large a fridge. You have to remember that once you're out cruising ice is not easy to find and many times in the tropics when you get it, it's more like slush and costs quite a bit.