Fridge replacement

[wpc691]

20yr old GE fridge finally gave up the ghost. Searching old threads here and on the interweb yields 3 candidates that will fit down the companionway without taking the doorframe apart ( why is everything else on the boat assembled with screws, but not that doorframe??): Avanti, Igloo and maybe Criterion (Menard’s house brand). I guess these might all be classed “disposable”, but does anybody have recent experience, good or bad, with any of these brands? Thanks.

[bobk]

If you could get it through a window, that might give you more options. It's not as bad a job to pull a window as it might seem, especially for a yard that has the experience.

Bobk

[Pascal]

I have a small avanti, it works... nowadays all that stuff is pretty much disposable.

Check smallappliances.com they have things you wont find in regular stores.

I ve never undertood why counter depth fridges are so expensive... i hate standard fridges that are so deep you forget what s hidding in the back!

[Walter P]

I have a small avanti, it works... nowadays all that stuff is pretty much disposable.

Check smallappliances.com they have things you wont find in regular stores.

I ve never undertood why counter depth fridges are so expensive... i hate standard fridges that are so deep you forget what s hidding in the back!

I thought the stuff in the back was left over high school biology homework.....

Walt

[wpc691]

Thanks, guys. If I had a 53, I would pull a window. The fridge space in my 43 is really pretty small, so pulling the window would only get me a slightly larger fridge. As somebody said in another thread, “I hate pulling a window that doesn’t leak”.

[Pascal]

There ar no windo to pull to get a fridge in with a 53... they fit fine thru the aft deck door, the problem are the stairs going down to th galley.