After a mediteranean adventure with fair winds and some problems with our new Super Maramu 2000 we arrived in Greece. My website www.almalibre.gr is updated and there you can find interesting things that happened to us during the trip. For your info the Raymarine instruments worked very good during the trip but as expected on any new boat there are some problems that have to be solved. The latest is that the 12V engine starting battery has been discharged after leaving the boat for 5 days in Syros Island in Cyclades. I was shocked I had to start the engine with the cables that were supplied with the boat although I had 630 Ah battery capacity on 24 Volts as the boat was connected to the shore power. Has anybody a clue of what happened? Amel claims that propably the battery is faulty. I am surprised that on such a boat there is no other mean to charge this battery but only to start the engine or generator ( if you can ). Has anybody installed a switch to paralel the batteries in order to start the engine without the cables? On my previous boat (Santorin) with 12 V systems everything was simpler and more safe.
