Boating NZ

New fridge, new anchor

The reason was simple: Kirsten, my wife, is less than five-foot tall. Sauvage came with a traditional in-bench Isotherm chiller and freezer but, impractically, we only used the top 20cm as everything below this point was for her unreachable (ahem, even with a stool.)

FRIDGE REPLACEMENT

We decided to replace it with an easier-to-access, front-opening, under-bench 12V fridge, as you often find in motorhomes. A month later, we had chosen the new fridge. As the new fridge was smaller than the old one, our final solution was to have a fridge/freezer with a veggie cupboard beside it.

Choosing the fridge was the easy bit! Now we needed to install it. I

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