Marine Air Conditioning Spare Parts to Carry Aboard
Four items cover most of what fails a long way from a chandlery, and together they cost less than one call-out.
Marine Air Conditioning Spare Parts to Carry Aboard: Schedule and Equipment
Marine air conditioning fails at predictable places. If you cruise beyond easy reach of a marine refrigeration trade — the Kimberley, the Top End, the reef, Tasmania — the difference between a spare aboard and no spare is the difference between an hour and a week.
Marine Air Conditioning Spare Parts to Carry Aboard: Procedure
If you skip it: A perfectly repairable fault becomes a trip-ending one, in the places where cooling matters most.
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.