So what do you do when you live on a boat and there’s a heat wave coming?
You clean the A/C filters of sediment and make sure things keep as cool as possible.
Like most boaters, we have what is called a “reverse cycle” air conditioning system, which can heat or cool the boat. Raw water from the Bay flows through a filter, a pump, and then a condenser which pulls the “Cold” out and sends the “Hot” overboard. (Don’t ask me more than that, thermodynamics was not my strong course in college.)
Unlike most boaters, we’re docked in 6′ of water (at low tide) that always seems to be full of sediment. Couple this with the fact that our intake is near where the keel mounts to the hull, which is only about 3′ off the extremely mucky bottom of the marina, and we suck up a lot of dirt! So I clean the filters often.
And before a heat wave, I clean them again.
Great site! I love your quote, how fitting for you. I have read several Twain books, my favorite is Following the Equator. My vote is that you wakeboard this week and put the 4 sale sign on next week! P.S. you can clean our filters while you’re at it, LOL.
Carol, thanks for checking out the site! I didn’t get around to cleaning your filters 🙂 and unfortunately, my cleaning didn’t help out our A/C. I’ll need to do some more troubleshooting, but they’re working okay, (just not as well as I would like them to.) And don’t worry, we’ll probably keep wakeboarding right up until we sell the boat.