Want to install air conditioning in a 1991 Catalina 36 mark 1.5 with sugar scoop.
Has anyone done this for the Mark 1.5? If so, please let me know where your air conditioning is installed. On my boat, looks like only place with space available is in the v-berth. Please advise. Thanks.
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Bob Gray
Corbeta #1117
Lake Erie, Great Lakes
1991 C-36 mk1.5 TR/SK M35B
Ours is under the aft U part dinette seat just forward of the galley
Stephen Noe
S/V Earendil, Oriental NC, USA
1985 Endeavour 42
rxg31,
I can offer a suggestion if I knew where your boat is located.
If you are in an environment like I am, northern Lake Huron, I need AC about 10 days a season. For that I purchased the smallest (size) window air conditioner I could find, and rigged up a support and hatch board to support the air conditioner in the main hatchway. When not in use, the unit fits in the port cockpit locker.
Works pretty slick and is a blessing on hot summer days and nights.
I think I paid $99.00 bucks and it's real simple solution.
Bill Matley
Bill Matley
Duncan Bay Boat Club
Cheboygan, Michigan
Lakes Huron, Michigan,
Canadian North Channel
"Spirit of Aloha" Hull #1252
[QUOTE=rxg31;12405]Want to install air conditioning in a 1991 Catalina 36 mark 1.5 with sugar scoop.
Has anyone done this for the Mark 1.5? If so, please let me know where your air conditioning is installed. On my boat, looks like only place with space available is in the v-berth. Please advise. Thanks.[/QUOTE]
That's where the unit is installed on our 1991 C36 and I agree there really isn't any other option. I have the "U" shaped settee which is populated with the fuel tank aft and the holding tank forward so no room there.
I was worried about the noise, but after living with it a few seasons I find the noise never bothers me as much as sweltering in the heat does.
We are on the Chesapeake where for me the boat would be intolerable most of July and August without AC.
Bill Boggs
s/v Palmetto Moon
1991 C36, Hull 1128
Herrington Harbor South
Chesapeake Bay
On Caprice the water intake pump is under the V Birth and the compresser is under the starboad side forward seat. There is a air duct going through the Hanging Closet with a vent into V Birth. Another duct going above and behind the paneling aboue the shevles on the starboard side with a vent just before the electric panel.
The only thing I don't like about this setup is the ducts taking up some space in the closet.
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Punta Gorda Florida
1990 Std WK M35 Hull #1050
Thanks everyone for the info. I too have the fuel tank and holding tank configuration in the dinette U, so based on all the feedback the v-berth will be the place for my a/c installation. Am also thinking about adding a T so I can clean out or prime the a/c water pump from the inside of the boat. Will have an internal strainer.
Do I really need an external strainer? If so, what do most people use? If I used an external strainer, was thinking of using something that had small uniform holes and can be open/closed for cleaning from the outside of the boat. OR was also thinking of skipping the external strainer and using a typical bronze or marelon thru hull. Thoughts?
Regarding portable a/c since I'm on Lake Erie I like the idea, but truth of it is I don't need a/c..really!...but it's what the admiral wants if you know what I mean! I understand though, since given past few years we live on the boat for 40+ days/nights at a time in the summer, so the a/c would get some good use on the 90+ deg F and 80+% humidity which will happen.
Besides the external strainer, I'm not sure about is where to add the 2nd 30amp service inlet plug and run the wire. So where do other C/36 users with a/c have their 2nd shore power inlet? Thoughts again?
Bob Gray
Corbeta #1117
Lake Erie, Great Lakes
1991 C-36 mk1.5 TR/SK M35B
Consider / reconsider an external strainer.
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Stu Jackson, C34IA Secretary, C34 #224, 1986, SR/FK, M25 engine, Rocna 10 (22#)
Bob,
Consider adding a new primary shore connection in the anchor locker. The stock shore connection in the aft portion of the cockpit serves as the (2nd) or spare connection.
You can run the stern connection to a dedicated circuit for Air Conditioning and/or electric heater.
By dedicating it to just these uses, this stern connection will always be dead, unless you have a second shore power attached to it. Plus it's a lot nicer to have a short power cable out of the bow, to the electrical source instead of hauling that long, heavy power cable along your deck.
Works for me.
Bill Matley
Bill Matley
Duncan Bay Boat Club
Cheboygan, Michigan
Lakes Huron, Michigan,
Canadian North Channel
"Spirit of Aloha" Hull #1252