HOW SUPERYACHTS DO IT

‘You’ll never see anyone waving out of a superyacht window,’ says the blogger for Coastal Climate Control. ‘That’s because superyacht windows don’t open. The crew rely on a highly sophisticated HVAC system instead.’

The yacht is actually built around its HVAC system, with banks of chillers in the engine room pumping cold water to distribution hubs, which blow air across the radiators and catch and remove any condensation.

Companies like Dometic, Penguin Refrigeration, Fischer Panda, Aquaair and Waeco provide the chillers and installation kits, and their expertise filters down to the likes of us at the smaller end of the boating market.

an hVac distribution hub set into the deckhead of a superyacht. the entire network can be centrally controlled by the skipper, cooling only those areas that are in use

a bank of chillers serving a large motoryacht. each chiller is assigned to an area of the yacht, much as in a hotel ashore. the temperature can be set locally on a bulkhead thermostat