The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

Every since we have had our boat, even before we moved on board fulltime we sleep good on the boat. Our bed is almost a queen size in the aft cabin. However the 4 inch foam that has been there since 1998 is worn out. We had purchased a memory foam topper and that helped for about a year. We knew something had to be done. We talked with other boaters that choose memory foam and it was a fail for them. Doing the same foam again was an option, but we wanted something more like a real mattress. We had heard about a local person who makes custom mattresses. They had a booth at he the Texas Mariners Cruising Associations Spring Fling. The small test mattress they had for display was impressive. We got the information to contact them later. Alesi Handcrafted Mattress started in 1940 when his dad founded Simons Mattress in Houston Texas. They split away doing custom mattress for antiques and other various special circumstances. They ventured off in to marine mattress with this bei

While we work closer to the day of cutting the dock lines and cruising off to our dream, we are slowly but surely checking off our boat projects.  Most of us who have boats always have a project, and always will.  Our Catalina 380 has a decent size refrigerator, but a tiny freezer unit.  We have a large icebox we used to store "stuff". (All the stuff you thought you would use on the boat when you made the down size to the boat, but never did.   The stuff which was given away or placed on the if you want it take it table at the marina. The project is an Engel ice boxy conversion kit..  The kit says it will bring down a 50 quart area down below zero.  The ice box was a little larger than 50 quarts, so with some modifications, we have a pretty decent size freezer for a boat.  The unit is super simple to install and runs on 110 or 12 volt and detects which power it has.  Initial power up pulls about 5 amps but drops down to about 3 amps wyhen on DC.  With some insulation and