For many years refrigeration on board my 1980s IOR ¾ ton cruiser-racer Zen Again was a portable Waeco unit, that sat in an open compartment in the galley. Although the unit worked, its volume was small, its power consumption large and it robbed us of work surface.
So we decided to replace it with a custom compartment plus an ‘off the shelf’ condenser/evaporator. Separately, the galley sinks had rusted through so we decided on a galley makeover.
Planning
The old galley had the portable fridge mounted aft of the cooker. There was no work surface above it. The forward area was taken up with dual sinks and an uninsulated wooden locker outboard. So the galley had very little work surface for
