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Refrigerator in sterncastle

The process of building a refrigerator to fit under the sterncastle dinette sole. The lessons learned here will then be used to build a freezer compartment in the main salon of WILDERNESS, a forty-foot Searunner. Click on the individual pics for deeper descriptions.

The top has been roughed out, showing the inner insulation. The white foam sheets are templates for the VIPs. The sides of the top haven't been...

The compressor and its associated parts are placed temporarily in the after-most bilge to test their fit. This position is good, since the stern of...

The outer shell of the reefer box, built to conform to the available space in the sterncastle bilge. Patterns were made, the individual panels were...

This is the fabrication stage of the box interior. The silver foam is a mockup of the coldplate. The shelves were built to better use the space at...

This is an alternate view of the interior, before painting, showing one of the two air-circulating vents built into a shelf. The coldplate will be...

This is the start. Having built the outer shell, I placed it in the sterncastle bilge to confirm that all will fit. The next bilge compartment aft...

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