Catalina 350 International Association

My internet provider has changed. Here is the new address for my refrigerator blog. http://home.roadrunner.com/~teriwhine/frig.html These changes are still working great. I have just defrosted my freezer this weekend. This is the first time since last July. I used to have to defrost every month. But...

My unit has been cycling on and off this winter. But my unit never stops cycling. So it doesn't heat the boat. I have been working with Joe Joyce also. I have the new circuit board and sensor and it does not make a difference. So I watched the coil tubes on the unit while its working. With the cabin...

Even after all the modification I have made to my freezer in the refigeration blog I was still getting one inch of ice on the evaporator after two weeks. I found the problem and came up with a fix. I now only have a light coating of frost after 10 days and my freezer is 10 degrees colder. This has b...

I have noticed from reading the boards that many 350 owners are having problems with their refrigerator. I have had many of the same problems and have made some modifications to my system that have improved its performance. I have created a web page that shows these modifications. Hope this will be ...

I have read the articule from Catalina on the 350 prop cavitation. In the articule Mr Douglas address the concerns of 350 owners about momentary cavitation. On my 350, hull 148 the problem is not momentary it is constant after 1900 RPMs. The noise and vibration caused by the cavitation is severe eno...

If your cold plate is not zero degress or below then your freon is not adjusted properly or you need to add the duct kit to the compressor. This is how the service guy adjusted my unit. He put a temperature probe on the cold plate and had the temperature gauge up in the cockpit where he could see it...

I have hull 148 and the boat is in Texas where its hot most of the time. When I got the boat the freezer would not go below 39 and frig below 50. I kept complaining to the dealer and they sent a local refrigeration specialist out to check out the unit. He found that when the copper line from the com...

A while back there was a post where one of the 350 owners replaced his jib furling line cleat with a rope clutch. I can not find this post any more. Has anyone else done this? Which rope clutch did you use? How did you mount it? Does the metal backing plate go under where the original cleat is mount...