Just curious, as I recall your boat was around 40' or so? It's amazing that people can find space for two, whereas I could *just* find space for one (33' boat that is pretty beamy/spacious). And finding space for the cool box was pretty tough --ended up having to use very expensive and thin vacuum panels in order to save space. Using regular foam would've resulted in a very small cool box interior, about the size of, say, a box of tissue, or maybe twice that size! ;-)

To keep up with electrical demand, do you end up having to run engine and diesel generator frequently? Do wind/solar do most of the work, and use the engines just occasionally?

Just trying to get a sense of how to keep up with power demand. I installed a fridge on our boat, never got around to finishing it up, what with a million other priorities before taking off on a short 5-month cruise, and we got along just fine without it. That being said, we did go north where things kept in the bilge for a good while...we were not in the tropics/Mexico...to "save" power and not need to generate so much, we've been wondering if we could only use the fridge/freezer occasionally when cruising, i.e., when we actually have things to freeze in the freezer, and go fridge-less otherwise and not need to generate so much power. But I'm not too sure this is a viable strategy...!