New Fridge and Freezer!

Now that the Washer/Dryer combo unit was out of the salon it was time to install a real freezer. We originally looked at the u-line that Nordhavn is adding to the new 40s but we did not want to have to build a custom door to match our teak.

Steve from Waypoint suggested we looked at Vitrifrigo as they make a size compatible unit and has drawers instead of the traditional doors. After looking at pictures online and finding out they have a model that offers positive latches we were sold!

The old fridge as a black bar and beverage center GE unit. As you can see the framing had to be modified to fit…

The new unit speaks for itself!

As for the freezer, well we had to have a matching vitrifrigo unit as well

Here is one of the units before being installed.

Jorge

More restoration work completed

This week Waypoint Marine finished the third wave of restoration work on Hayden Bay. This wave included changes to the living space to make the boat feel more like a home.

A big part of the job was to install new appliances and we could not be happier with the end result.

When we purchased Hayden Bay the Washer and Dryer was located on the salon where the freezer is generally located. We are not sure why it was moved up but the model was ventless and not designed for marine use. Long story short it managed to destroy a large assortment of clothes, not to mention the after-smell since the dry cycle took forever!

My favorite part was how the old washer was installed…

Getting the new unit down below, on the guest stateroom was a bit of a pain but totally worth it! Now we have a vented model, designed for the marine environment, dries much more quickly and does not destroy or stinks up our clothes!

This is the location where the original washer was. The safari people unfortunately transformed it into a closet with ugly shelves, a home made drip tray and a 1.4 qf summit freezer shown on the pictures below after we moved it to the galley until the new freezer was installed… note how small the unit was!

Jorge

What’s the best type of vent?

We are doing some work on Hayden Bay this fall and, as we were exploring what’s behind the ceiling panels on the guest stateroom, we discovered something interesting…

For context Hayden Bay has a couple of dorade vents that bring fresh air into the two staterooms.

On the master the vent is on the starboard side but on the guest stateroom we could not actually find it anywhere. Where could it be? That was a mystery to us though not big enough to go investigating at the time.

Well, behind one of the ceiling panels we found this:

What you see in the background is the vent… it seems that when the boat was restored originally the vent was never rebuilt, instead they just left the venting hose behind the panel… the air up there was super fresh I’m sure…

Jorge