portable ac units.
 

Looking at a few mid 30' boats with decent overnighter cabins but they are lacking ac. For the few times a year we would overnight , it would be at powered slips. Can you use the small , somewhat portable ac units I have seen online for residential use or are there other portable options?

Fixx
 

thease work decent..
http://www.kooleraire.com/

I dont know who makes them but there are portable/temp a/c units that sit on the deck thru the deck hatch. Blow in the cabin and vent thru the outside. Great idea.

cruiseair makes carryon a/c units.i have one.it is 4800btu.my cabin is small,but this thing rocks,at times i have to turn it off.i think air to air a/c units give you a better temp change,but on board a/c units are a whole lot more conveient.the guy i got this a/c unit from used it on his 357 foumula and cool great.

I have a 5kbtu I used it a few times on my Hustler,works good,a 1850 coleman prot gen will run it good also,beoch putting on the deck.you can find them cheap used,My buddy likes borrowing mine all the time,I found him one a craigslist for 250 and told him about it,he wouldnt buy it.Typical:grinser010:

it does make water and runs off the deck.


cruisair carry on air conditioner

I have a Velocity 260, so the cabin is not terribly big. I overnight only a couple of times a year, I might try one of thoses $40.00 units. Seems like a decent idea and may work well in a smaller cabin. Worst case, out 40 bucks and a couple of bags of ice....

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I saw one at homedepot 30" tall 18" portable cooles 400 sq. foot i have a 38 baja going to try it price 230.00 runs 0n 110 volt discharge are will go out hatch window going to make a plate with a 4" hole

i read somewhere,,someone just left the window a/c unit on the dock pluged in,,,and just ran a hose blowing the cold air inside,,,he could use the hatch or the door for the hose,,

A few friends of mine just use the small home window a/c units.

Carbon Monoxide = dead. I have a cruiser as well as the Cig and every year on the cruiser forums we read about someone who died in their sleep in the cabin with a portable genny running on the swim platform or such. PLEASE THINK BEFORE DOING THIS!

Find one of these units, I use the same type works great just drop it in the HATCH.

I hook a hose to the drain and feed it over the side of the boat. Found ours on craigs list.

I have a buddy that has one for sale, let me know if you need contact info.

which unit????

I have one of these and they are great. It will freeze you out of the cabin on the 35 Cig.

I think its a Crusiair 5000. I bought it used from a guy thinking I was going to use it and never did. It works perfect and blows cold, I just never used it on the boat.
Shoot me a pm if interested.
Kevin

LG portable ac unit in my 38 PQ, bought it at Home Depot. Run the vent out door and put towel over door opening. Lift it in at home and no one in the marina even knows I have it. $249 LG or $1250 from West Marine? Redneck yes, works great yes.

The BPACT08WT is only 16.5 x 11.5 x 26 inches, I think it is a portable ac unit suitable for use on board.

I had a $100 5k btu window unit from Home Depot I carried in my old Chaparral for almost 10 years. Put a piece of carpet under it so it didn't scratch the glass. Placed it so it slightly overhung the edge of the hatch opening, dropped the hatch down on top of it and covered most of it up with a heavy beach towel. Didn't work very good until I figured out I needed a piece of cardboard to separate the inlet and outlet. After that it rocked. Cabin temps dropped down to the upper 50's when it was upper 80's outside. It looked redneck for sure, but I slept very well curled up in my sleeping bag. I kept it stowed where the potti was originally along with it's extension cord, piece of carpet and cardboard. Tried to overnight w/o A/C once in the summer. I'll never make that mistake again.