Some more galley news

We're still at home, or rather in Monfalcone on our boat most of the time. We haven't sail away yet, it's going to be another couple of weeks probably. While we're working really hard, without a break, it just seems that many projects take more time than planned, parts that we ordered are still on the way, and then every now and then an unforeseen problem appears from nowhere and messes up our schedule completely. 

But let's get to the good news - our fridge/freezer is almost finished and it looks great! This is the fridge part...

.... with shelves on both sides...

... and this is the other half....

... with the freezer part under the shelf. We made all the shelves out of the material from our old fridges.

We made sure the fridges are very well insulated, this is how thick the lid insulation is.

Since we had a true hot summer weather now from beginning of June, we put the fridge to it's use immediately.

What's still missing are the hinges for the lids, and the thermostat for regulating the temperatures inside the fridge. At the moment we are simply lifting the lid out completely and putting it on the side, which makes opening of both lids simultaneously a bit difficult. And we have a thermometer inside the fridge and we manually switch the fridge on and off. In spite of the current heath we need to run the fridge only an hour and a half in the morning every day (the fridge is water cooled and has two huge cooling plates that keep it cold and the freezer below 0 deg C even when it's not running), so obviously the thick insulation is doing it's job.

Captain managed to finish another difficult project - repairing of our Spectra watermaker. He changed all the seals and gaskets and replaced the membrane. He took the whole thing apart and then he put all this back together...

... into this. We then together mounted it back under the floorboards. Needless to say, it was a humongous task, and a big and valuable learning experience as well.

Heron is staring to look more like itself rather than the workshop or the toolshed...

... but there's still a lot to be done.