Sailboat Refrigeration Systems #25

This week I take apart the sailboat refrigeration systems on Samantas. The systems in the 1970s were charged with R12 refrigerant although extremely effective for sailboat refrigeration, R12 is much more damaging to the environment should systems leak Freon into the atmosphere. Modern systems on a sailboat use 134a. It is possible to change from R12 refrigeration to 134a but the oil in the compressor systems will need to be changed as well. Sailboat refrigeration systems are interesting in that often times the refrigeration sled is a separate from the fridge, in Samantas its mounted under the cockpit and plumbed into the top loading refrigeration box in the galley. I'm tempted to entertain moving my sailboat refrigeration systems to different location, perhaps remove the chart table and move the refrigeration there, or even built in refrigeration under the starboard side settee. https://www.patreon.com/sailing_samantas https://paypal.me/SailingSamantas?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US