Companionway Door Seal - New Photos Album & Photos
Gary Silver
Hi all:
I just posted a series of photographs showing the replacement of my companionway door seal. I did this about 4 years ago. I have owned the boat since new and the original Amel seal began failing at about year 10 and by year 13 demanded attention. I was un-successful in obtaining original Amel material (no longer available). I couldn't find anything in the automotive industry that I found suitable, so I fabricated my own. I am an aircraft mechanic and almost daily utilize red silicone sheet rubber for engine baffling. It is very durable and doesn't deform with fuel, oil, heat etc. It has held up well for the last 4 years. I fabricated from teak an obtuse triangular shim to hold the silicone seal material in place against the door in a squeegee like fashion. The photos are in the album entitled: "Modifications - Companionway Door Seal". I'll try and post a dimensional drawing of the shim and a source for the seal material soon. Hope this may of be of use to some. Gary S Silver s/v Liahona Amel SM 2000 #335 Puerto Del Rey Marina, Puerto Rico
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Maramu T-track matching
smiles bernard
Hello Amelians
Folk on this forum have been very helpful with advice re how to remove the Maramu Genoa sheet cars. (Best bet seemed to be to undo the stanchion base fwd of the track and push this ‘loose’ stanchion base inboard to allow the passage of the car off the T track. ) I have family coming to stay from Europe in a few weeks so I’m hoping to load their suitcases up with a Genoa sheet cars. The originals on Sea Love are Goiot. Could anyone be kind enough to tell me if the any metric Genoa cars of the right track width will do or are things more complex than that re matching track thickness and profile etc? Many thanks Miles
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
Gary Silver
James:
I have had a Spade anchor on Liahona (Amel SM 2000) for about 8 years; I can't recall the size (weight) I bought but it is roughly the equivalent size of the SS CQG anchor the boat came new with. It fits the bow roller well. I will try and find a picture to post. This Spade sets the first time every time everywhere I have been in the Caribbean. The only time it drug was when I hooked an underwater cable and it slid along the cable. The original CQR anchor that came with the boat was pretty, never rusted etc but it was a nightmare to set in the same places. Gary S. Silver s/v Liahona Amel SM 2000 # 335 Puerto Rico
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
Gary Silver
Colin and Lauren:
I know of several people who have had their chain done by Buzz Parlato of Lighthouse Marine in St. Thomas. Cell 340-334-3117, email lighthouse at islands dot vi. Evidently you specify the chain you want, go bow in to a slip in Crown Bay Marina, at Charlotte Amalie, they come on the dock with the chain, strip your old chain, load the new chain, and haul away your old chain. Those I have heard from say it is seamless and easy. Once I calculated the weight of 80 meters of 10 mm chain and it seems like it was something like 800 lbs. so doing the job myself is something I wasn't looking forward to. I haven't used these folks personally but I think Joe Nance did. Gary S. Silver s/v Liahona Amel SM 2000 #335 Puerto Rico
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Hi Mark, the important thing is the clunk. My sign says no to forward, but as I said in my previous just to be contrary sometimes its clunk in forward, sometimes reverse. I don't think it has anything to do wit the prop. I have auto prop So I just go with the clunk. Regards Danny
On 12 March 2019 at 07:58 Mark Erdos <mcerdos@...> wrote:
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
Danny,
The opposite is true on Cream Puff. There is a French sticker by the throttle that says to put the gear in forward when sailing and leave it there. We do not have a shaft break or alternator. We also start the engine (when the boat is moving forward) with it in gear per the sign. This seemed odd to me but Miles from Lady Bug has the same sticker and speaks fluent French.
We are fitted with an AutoProp and for some reason this makes a difference (and of cause the engine on Amel faces the wrong way – not sure if this also effects it). We are unable to stop the rotation of the shaft in reverse. It will still slowly turn. We hear the reassuring clunk in forward and the shaft will not move. I really do not know all the mechanics involved but just follow the sign.
This all obviously varies by vessel, engine, prop etc.
With best regards,
Mark
Skipper Sailing Vessel - Cream Puff www.creampuff.us
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Hi. The reason being that it locks in reverse but in forward the clutch plates are lightly engaged and the propeller turns slowly causing wear to the plates. Try it with the engine cover up when sailing with the shift in neutral and the prop will be spinning. Engage forward and it will slow, engage reverse and there is a satisfying clunk and it stops. However mine for some reason not known sometimes stops in reverse, sometimes in forward so I always check for that satisfying clunk. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Hi. The reason being that it locks in reverse but in forward the clutch plates are lightly engaged and the propeller turns slowly causing wear to the plates. Try it with the engine cover up when sailing with the shift in neutral and the prop will be spinning. Engage forward and it will slow, engage reverse and there is a satisfying clunk and it stops. However mine for some reason not known sometimes stops in reverse, sometimes in forward so I always check for that satisfying clunk. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl
On 12 March 2019 at 07:18 Ian <parkianj@...> wrote:
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
Ian Park
Miles
The Santorin has a Hurth gearbox. The instruction by the gear shift says not to put into forward gear whilst sailing. Must be a reason. Ian
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
James Apology, I cannot assist with the Maramu specific anchor fit question, but would say we have been very happy with our Rocna 40kg. Now more than half the way around the world, it has only ever dragged once in the Maldives on rock when we stopped briefly for an hour to refuel in Gan and did not put enough chain out, nor pull back on it. If the Rocna 33 fits your bow that is what I would fit. We had one on our last boat (Island Packet 40) and it was perfect On the question of length, I would agree that 100m instead of the standard 80m would be a good idea. We also want to upgrade to 100m or 110m x 10mm chain now before heading over the Pacific. I personally would not go down to 8mm. Does anyone know of a good quality (Well priced!) chain supplier here in the Caribbean?? We are in BVI'S now, and headed to St Martin next before Bonaire and Panama.. Cheers Colin & Lauren SV Island Pearl II Peter Island, BVI'S
On Sat, 9 Mar. 2019, 10:34 James Alton via Groups.Io, <lokiyawl2=aol.com@groups.io> wrote: Hello Maramu owners,
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Re: Tunesia
Joerg Esdorn
This is very helpful advice, many thanks! My conclusion is to go to Hammamet/Port Jasmine, rather than Gammarth or Sidi Bou Said.
Joerg
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Re: Bow locker floor replacement.....
Thomas Kleman
Thanks to all for the words of wisdom I'm getting. Because I wasn't that careful with debris, the dust and wood chips combined with the mud already there to clog my anchor locker drain (entering through the permanent grating). While I was able to access the line to clear it out both from the T connection near the shower and the drain fitting inside the locker, getting the mud/other stuff out requires one to be inside the chain locker with some kind of vacuum poked through the grate, if it's really clogged. Which brings me to my question. I'm leaning towards an ingress hatch so I can get inside the chain locker. Just continually blowing the clog free with water/compressed air seems to be kicking the can down the road a bit. Thoughts ? Note- Since I achieved the age of 6, I lost the ability to pass through the bulkhead access door. I'm wondering if part of the reason my previous 5 year old chain became a ball of rust was incomplete drainage from the locker. I can't say I regularly emptied enough chain out of the locker to allow for a visual inspection.
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
James Alton
Greg,
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Thanks for your input. I don’t have to order my anchor right away so I will look forward to hearing your report. It seems from my research so far that the Mantus should be good in weed, I hope so too. The areas of the Med. that we have sailed so far (Sardinia, Sicily, Tunisia) all had sandy areas that we could anchor in amongst the weed. Do you think that there is more weed in the Med as you go further East? Thanks for letting me know that the Spade is not working in the Med. weed. It does not appear that the Spade will fit the Amel anchor hardware either so I think I will take that option off of the list. We hope to be in Eastern Greece and perhaps Turkey next season, it would be great to hear about some of your travels, perhaps we can chat some via email? Best, James SV Sueno Maramu #220
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
smiles bernard
Interesting thread !
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I have been using the shaft alternator lots over the last 8 months. My Hurth gearbox manual seems to suggest that it should be left to idle (regardless of the Amel propshaft alternator) but I assume this is very gearbox specific. So I run my gearbox in neutral even without the alternator ‘on’ Does anyone known if idle in reverse or idle with the gearbox lever fwd makes a difference? Or is idle just idle - if you don’t have a MaxProp that is? When coming out of idle I try and slow the boat down 1st to reduce gearbox forces as it moves into gear. All the best Miles Maramu 162
On 10 Mar 2019, at 21:39, amel46met <onboardaphrodite@...> wrote:
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
Gregory Shea
James,
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I have a 20 kg Spade on my Sharki. Works great in sand, useless in (Med) weed. I am taking a 25 kg Mantus with me next month. I hope it can get through the weed because that would really open up Med anchorages. I used the template on the Mantus website to size it on the roller. It's a bit hokey but better than nothing. Will report back but that may be too late for you. Greg Shea Sharki 133 Cap des iles In eastern Greece for 2019
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> on behalf of James Alton via Groups.Io <lokiyawl2@...>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 5:11:13 PM To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Maramu anchor and chain suggestions Michael,
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Rocna and for the insight on the Chrome Duplex, I had never heard of it until your post. From the research I have done to date it appears that the Rocna would be a big step up in holding from my original
Buegel anchor and it is well proven. The Mantus is an anchor of interest to me as well, mostly because it seems to be unusually reliable in resetting. It can of course be hard to separate the hype from fact so I am still pondering… I am concerned a bit
about how light the shank is on the Mantus.
I am really hoping to hear from another Maramu owner that has used the Mantus to know for sure if it would even fit my boat before I make my final decision but I understand that this anchor has not been around all that long so maybe no one has
tried it yet. The side profile and angle of the plough portion of the anchor is very similar to the Rocna which looks encouraging. The shank is longer in the sizes I am looking at but I think that there should be enough deck space. I have seen the Mantus
on a few Super Maramus and they appear to fit pretty well. If anyone with a Super Maramu would like to comment on what they think of this anchor on their Amel I would sure appreciate the input.
Best,
James
SV Sueno
Maramu #220
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Re: Maramu anchor and chain suggestions
James,
Can't comment on the fit of the Mantus on a Maramu - I have one on my Santorin and it's been great. Mantus has a schematic of their anchors on their website - I down loaded that and did a mock-up with cardboard to be sure it would fit the bow roller. It is fine and has about 1" of gap between the tip of the fluke and the stem - it has never hit the fiberglass while being raised. Craig Briggs, SN68 Sangaris
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
amel46met
Hi Olivier
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Thanks for the information
Will give it a try with this good Caribbean wind
Tom Deasy
S/Y Aphrodite
Maramu # 125
On Mar 10, 2019, at 8:36 PM, Warren Traill <trailz@...> wrote:
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Re: Tunesia
James Alton
Gary,
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All of the Tunisian officials that checked us into the country in Bizerte were super nice and respectful to us, both during the process and afterwards when we met them on later at the marina. No drawers were opened at all they simply asked us some questions. Now the boat that was docked right next to us had a very different experience from the same officials and had been asked for a gift. They were very offended and were very vocal about their dissatisfaction and left at first light the next day into half of a gale. From what I gathered in talking to the officials (In Bizerte they live right next to the marina) , there are a lot of boats that sail to Tunisia to check in for one day to reset their Schengen clock and are not there to spend any money. Right or wrong this seems to grate on the nerves of some (remember these people don’t have much) Tunisians which feel that they are being used as a means to lower the rich mans tax bill at no benefit to their country. I knew about the possibility that I might be asked for a gift and so long as it was not out of line I was prepared to pay it. I think that we may have been treated differently than the neighbouring boat because when the officials asked us if we would be leaving soon we told them that no we wanted to see their country and asked for suggestions on where to go and what to see and ended up with a lot of good ideas. We found pretty much anything that we needed in Bizerte and met some amazing people. Really sorry that you had such a bad experience with the Customs in Tunisia since you otherwise might have had a great time there. And yes I agree that it is wrong that officials would ever ask for a “gift” and especially to harass you in anyway to extract the gift from you. For myself I just saw this as a risk and a potential cost of going there so was prepared to not be offended, I mean in when I think about how much it cost for me to buy, prepare and sail my boat there, a few extra dollars to ruin the experience did not seem to make sense. We felt that the country is a pretty amazing place, safe and there is a lot to see. We plan to go back if we get the chance. All the best and I hope that you enjoy your future cruising, James SV Sueno, Maramu #220
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Re: Sharki shaft alternator
Interesting information Olivier. I have another question. My propeller is fixed. And I have no shaft a;ternator. When I am sailing the shaft continues to rotate. Is it good practise to engage reverse to stop the shaft rotating if I wish. Or is there some potential for damage? Thanks, Warren Manon2 Sharki #15
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io [mailto:main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io] On Behalf Of Beaute Olivier via Groups.Io
Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2019 10:51 PM To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Sharki shaft alternator
Hello Tom,
the prop shaft alternator can work with a MAXPROP. It is a bit tricky, but you should try this: -while sailing (above 4 knots), start the engine and engage reverse idling -while your engine is reversing, turn ON the key switch of your alternator -then set the engine to neutral and stop it Your MAXPROP should keep the reverse position unless: a) your batteries are charged enough and the alternator will not oppose much power to the prop, therefore the prop will spin faster and will finally open and the shaft will stop b) your boat speed is high (while surfing) and the prop will spin faster and will open
Good luck.
Olivier
On Friday, March 8, 2019, 7:24:20 PM GMT+1, amel46met <onboardaphrodite@...> wrote:
Hello Does anyone in the group use a Max Prop with the shaft alternator I have read that it does work any tricks? Tom Deasy Maramu 125
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Re: Faux Teak and Deck Paint
amelforme
Mark, density was never considered. If you never have laminated fiberglass, it is not intuitive to consider the process. Vela and I are on the way to Puerto Rico. When I get a moment, I will draw you a feeble cross section which shows layer by layer. Might be helpful to imagine that the deck mold is upside down until the deck is removed and joined by six laminates around the entire perimeter to the hull that is still in its mold.
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Cindy probably has this figured out and is just being kind.... Keep Smiling ! Joël JOEL F. POTTER CRUISING YACHT SPECIALIST LLC THE EXPERIENCED AMEL GUY Office 954-462-5869
On Mar 10, 2019, at 5:02 PM, Mark Erdos <mcerdos@...> wrote:
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Re: Tunesia
I can only report on Marina Gammarth.
I was there in Sept., 2018 for a few days. The marina facilities are nice, but the complex is basically deserted. While there are many shop-front spaces available, they are all empty save one small service shop and an ATM. No provisions available and a cab ride is required to go shopping. . I also had an extremely distasteful experience with the Customs officers there. The Immigration office was fine, but Customs officer came aboard and systematically began emptying drawers and cupboards onto the bed and setees. They questioned the sources and purposes of my wife's jewelery, our U.S. emergency money and our prescriptions. Each item was ceremoniously inspected (some were phone-photographed) It got bad, so I finally asked "What do I need to do?" and I received "Well, perhaps a gift." as a reply. I was under the impression that Government officials had stopped playing that game but it is apparently not so in Gammarth. I was very disappointed and cannot recommend the marina for that reason alone. Gary W. SM 209, Adagio BVI/USVI
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