Staying Cool Aboard

My wife has MS and is completely destroyed by the heat. Pretending to be comfortable by funneling 80° air through the cabin doesn’t cut it. I have licked the heat though, at least for us, via air conditioning. I’m backyard and resource challenged so I don’t care how it looks or what you think as long as it works. Here’s what I’ve done.

On our 18 foot cuddy I used a 5,000 BTU window unit and a Honda 1000i generator.

http://72land-n-sea.blogspot.com/2011/09/boat-air-conditioning.html

We often boated on a similar boat, which I outfitted the same way.

When we became partners on a 21 foot pilot house, I installed a 9,200 BTU Polar Cub powered by a Honda 2000i.

Our current boat is a 43 year old 28’ houseboat with a 13,500 BTU RV rooftop unit powered by a Honda 3000i with a remote start so we can fire it up with the touch of a button.

http://72land-n-sea.blogspot.com/2012/10/3000i.html

http://72land-n-sea.blogspot.com/2014/05/boat-air-conditioning-improvment.html

Because we use the boats as campers and require air conditioning while on the trailers, neither the generators nor air conditioners require water for operation.