It was sized for the wrong sea
Condensers reject heat into seawater, and a plant sized on 18°C water loses a third of its capacity at 32°C. We size on the hottest water she will ever sit in, which is why ours still works in August.
Climate, water and sanitation · Split, working the Adriatic and the Med
Cool, quiet, and still
working in August.
Air conditioning is judged on the two hottest weeks of the year, at anchor, with twelve people aboard and the generator already loaded. Systems specified for a March sea trial fail exactly then, and that is the whole design problem.
- Sized for 32°C sea, not 18°C
- Noise measured in the cabin, in dB
- Sanitation and watermaker on one visit
What we do
Climate, fresh water and what leaves the boat
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What it costs
A figure before the survey
Air conditioning is quoted by the tonne of cooling and nobody outside the trade knows what that means. Pick the boat and how she is used and this gives supply and installation, sized for a hot August rather than a mild sea trial.
- Sized for 32°C seawater
- Ducting and noise treatment included
- Two-year parts and labour
How we work
Why air conditioning disappoints in the week it matters
The noise is the duct, not the plant
Owners ask for a quieter compressor and the compressor was never the problem. Air moving too fast through a sharp bend is, and it is cured with sheet metal rather than money.
Condensation is a design fault
Water dripping from a deckhead is insulation that stopped short, not humidity. We insulate the whole run including the fittings, which is the bit that always gets left.
One trade, three systems
Air conditioning, watermaker and sanitation share seawater, pumps, strainers and the same crew. Three contractors means three visits and an argument about whose strainer it was.
“Two refits and three contractors, and the aft cabins were still unusable above thirty degrees. They measured the heat load properly, found the plant was a third undersized for Croatian water in August, and put in the right one. First summer nobody has moved cabins.”
4.8 from 175 reviews
Where we are
Split, Dalmatia
Brodogradilišna 6, Hala 2
21000 Split, Croatia
- Mon – Fri
- 7:00 – 18:00 CET
- Saturday
- 8:00 – 13:00, June to September
- Attending
- Adriatic and the central Med
Split shipyard · 15 min from the ferry port
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