Marine Air Conditioning Spring Recommissioning
The reverse of laying up, plus the checks that catch what happened over winter. Do it a fortnight before you need it, not the day you do.
Marine Air Conditioning Spring Recommissioning: Schedule and Equipment
The first hot weekend is when every marine refrigeration technician in the country is fully booked. Finding a fault in September is an inconvenience; finding the same fault in December is a ruined summer.
Marine Air Conditioning Spring Recommissioning: Procedure
If you skip it: You discover the fault on the first 34-degree day, along with everybody else.
Record the date, what you found and any parts used in the boat's maintenance log. A repeat change—less water flow, faster fouling, a new smell or a breaker that trips again—is often more useful to a technician than a one-off reading. Check the current manual and official sources before changing the procedure, and stop at the licensed-work boundary described in the disclaimer.