This boat has such low hours on it and it looks like the galley had never been used! The 20 year old stove is practically new. However, the propane hoses and fittings looked their age and the propane sensor was hot wired and shady. So, as usual, we ripped the whole system out to replace it with an electric galley.

Jason and his dad used the wood working shop to make a wood box with a lid to store our portable induction burner and a combination convection oven microwave below.  A little hardware from Ace and it slides nicely into the gimble like it should!

Now that the new stove is done and functional it was time to start on the fridge.  I feel like the only thing the previous owners used the fridge for was sodas and snacks.  We learned when moving the boat south that the fridge compressor isn’t big enough to keep the entire box cold. Half was frozen and the other half was like 60 degrees.  That’s not going to work so we removed the old evaporator plate and compressor and bought a new set that was bigger.  The old evaporator was only located on one side of the box, but the new one wraps all the way around!

Now that the system itself is sized appropriately, I need to do some work to the box itself.  I noticed that the entire surface under the countertop had no insulation at all, which isn’t helping keep the fridge cool.  To fix this I got some 1” pink insulation foam, reflectix bubble wrap insulation, and tape and made multiple little panels to cover it. Hard to get pictures of, but it should help considerably!

Hopefully the new galley will exceed Jason’s expectations!