A couple in the club where I used to keep Imzadi have a 35’ Sabre. They bought a Coleman rooftop AC unit from an RV center. I checked and you can pick up a smaller unit (10-12K BTU) for circa $600-650.
Each spring they remove the hatch above the salon, and put down a wooden frame that goes around the hatch frame and acts as a spacer and mounting plate for the AC unit. Once mounted the AC unit looks a lot like a liferaft case sitting below the boom and behind the rigid vang. It only runs at the dock. But I’m told it works very well and was a good value. For a short while I had a 7000 BTU window unit from Walmart that sat on a homemade frame on the foredeck – with the business end propping up the hatch, and a cover to keep in the cool air. Worked OK and would keep the interior in the mid to upper 70s, but was a bitch to store. The CruisAire 7500 BTU unit I bought at a nautical yardsale for a couple hundred worked better, and mounted pretty slickly on the cover for the companionway slider with the cold air going down the hatch over the salon. But the dog got Pod because his spot on the boat is a pad placed on the cover over the companionway slider. Bottom line is I don’t see that AC is worth the cost or the hassle – at least for me. Rick Brass Washington, NC
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