Advice on fridge whilst on the ferry
What do we do regarding the fridge whilst on an overnight ferry for 24 hours. Do we not put it on at all or do we leave it on leisure battery and should this last the duration of the ferry.
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Portsmouth to Bilbao
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A leisure battery does not cool a fridge it just maintains it in a cool (ish) state and anyway only runs the fridge when the car engine is working. We filled some empty milk bottles with water, froze them and put them in a very cold caravan fridge before
departure. We found that the fridge was still cool 24 hours later. But remember there are plenty of shops in Bilbao so no need to take too much if anything in the fridge.0 -
Thanks for that we have water in the freezer as we speak
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We like to make a meal in advance, a curry, chilli or casserole and freeze it. It sits in the freezer keeping the fridge cool and is an easy meal to heat up on your first night. You can't beat a homemade casserole with a fresh Spanish barra (baguette for
you Francoplhiles) and a glass or two of Rioja.0 -
Some friends of ours who have used the long ferry crossing used to run their fridge on gas for a couple of hours while waiting for the ferry and found that it really cooled the fridge down and it stayed cold during the crossing. They did of course switch
the gas off before the crossing!!0 -
On a short crossing we chill the fridge before travel but it's turned off whilst on the boat. On an overnight long crossing we didn't have anything in it, just shopped on arrival at our destination. Oldagetravellers idea of a frozen meal slowly thawing as
it chills the fridge is a good one too, serves two purposes0 -
I've found that a frozen shepherds pie is still partly frozen after a night crossing to Le Havre and a day's drive through France.
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That's probably because the poor shepherd has been up on deck all night so he will be frozen.
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We are currently on the Santander ferry 24hrs, in the freezer I have a chilli and a curry, also a frozen 2litre of milk, 2 freezer blocks and a couple of juice cartons. This is the longest crossing so far, usualy Hull to Zeebrugge. Normally everything is
still frozen solid. I think a lot depends on the make of fridge. We have a Dometic at the moment but had a Thetford in the caravan which was rubbish.0 -
Off the ferry now, the fridge was off for a total of 29 hrs, prior to that it was on 12v during the drive from Stoke about 5 hours. All the food in freezer was still solid as was/is the milk and freezer blocks. The only thing that had started to defrost
was the small cartons of juice, possibly because it doesn't have a high water content. Chicken curry now eaten
AD, we saw 1 Whale this afternoon. At Cabo Mayor for the night, its dry but can see from the ground they have had a llot of rain. Heading to Madrid in the morning.
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We usually freeze the milk and some water bottles and a meal that we will eat on first night and that keeps everything else nice and cool, never had a problem yet. We have also used the frozen ice blocks method on site to supplement an inefficient fridge
in hot weather if you have a friendly campsite owner that lets you freeze your ice blocks in the freezer.0
