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Re: Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
Mohammad Shirloo
Great work Bill. Thanks for another year of help to keep all Amels functioning at their best and finding new solutions.
Happy holidays and new year to you, Judy, your entire family and the Amel group. Looking forward to a better 2021.
Happy Sailing;
Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io>
On Behalf Of CW Bill Rouse via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 10:54 AM To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
Best,
CW Bill Rouse
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Re: Fuel Tank Leak
amel46met
Hello group I was able to take my tank out through the companion way and replace it with a new tank last year 2019 no furniture removal but awkward with lots of padding
Tom Deasy 1983 Maramu #125
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Re: "Apple is examining a chemistry for the car battery called LFP, or lithium iron phosphate, for its car", that will bring the cost down for all of us
Ken Powers SV Aquarius <ken@...>
I don't know how the cost could come down too much more... I got 600AH at 24V for $3600. The only thing I regret is not getting one more battery so I would have 900AH at 24V.
The price has come down so much that in Thailand it is more expensive to get AGM batteries than LiFePO4. Ken Aquarius SM262
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Re: Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
Thanks Bill , a good start in 2021 good health for you and your familiy and frinds
Elja SM Balu Von meinem iPhone gesendet
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Re: Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
Great start. Thank you.
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Peter Peter Forbes Carango La Rochelle 00447836 209730
On 30 Dec 2020, at 18:53, CW Bill Rouse <brouse@...> wrote:
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Re: Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
Merry Christmas Bill thanks for all your hard work it’s truly appreciated 👍🏻
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Have a Very Happy New Year 🎆
On Dec 30, 2020, at 1:53 PM, CW Bill Rouse <brouse@...> wrote:
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Re: Secondary Saltwater Manifold SMs & 54s, and possibly some Santorins, Mangos, and Maramus
 The company making the above is closed for the Christmas holidays. The above will work in any SM, but will not work for a 54. We are currently designing one for the 54. I will post in this thread when the company in France is ready to take your order for SM and will post here when the 54 design is complete. Thanks for your patience. --
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Re: Placement of Beta 60 in an Amel Maramu
#replacement
Larry Salibra
Hi Jean-Pierre,
Keep in mind I've only used the boat 5-6 times since purchase thanks to Hong Kong's stringent operator licensing regime. When I did the sea trial with a clean hull, I saw similar result to Michael on SM251: wide open throttle gave me about 7.7 knots in flat water @ 2600 rpm. It was running bit hot though. As the propeller started getting growth, she started moving a LOT slower under engine. I hauled out a week or two ago and had a small coral reef growing on the prop and c-drive. I've just reduced the maxprop propeller pitch from 18 degrees to 16 degrees based on the advice of the engineer that installed the Beta, which will of course reduce my top speed but also reduce load on the engine. Will see how that goes. More power would always be nice, but it comes at a cost in terms of fuel consumption, weight, engine complexity (turbo!), and money. If I was doing the re-engine myself, I'd seriously look at the Beta 85T that Bill Rouse recommends. That said, I might still end up with the Beta 60 because I find myself leaning towards smaller engines in sailboats. The goal is to sail, not make lots of noise and burn up lots of fuel to push 16,000 kg 1 knot faster. Larry SM140 Sula Hong Kong
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Re: Placement of Beta 60 in an Amel Maramu
#replacement
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Hi. The Beta spunds a good option. However I repkced my tmd22 with volvo d275 and with 1300 hpurs up it is going well. Plus points. It has significantly more torque. Even with the propellor barnacle encrusted it pulls its standard 3000 rpm. Existing gearbox bolted on. Enging mount hole positioning was identical, fitted perfectly onto the egine bearers. All we had to do was make new forward end spacers to align the engine. Could not have been easier. It is significantly lighter than the tmd22 and this shows in the fore aft trim. It is a turbo. But no timing belt. It is a push rod engine, not ohc. I did not make up the spacer alignment tool for this job, nor for the engine mout repacement this year. No difficulties at all. Nil vibration. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean pearl
On 30 December 2020 at 16:35 "michael winand via groups.io" <mfw642000@...> wrote:
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Re: Placement of Beta 60 in an Amel Maramu
#replacement
The Beta 60 has more torque than the tmd22. The hp is measured at the gearbox output
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I would say that the Beta 60 has the same power as the tmd22 but lower in the rev range. My cruising revs is around 1800 and 6kn flat out 2200 and 7.5 kn in flat calm water.
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Re: Placement of Beta 60 in an Amel Maramu
#replacement
Germain Jean-Pierre
Hello Larry on Sulawesi,
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Is the Beta 60 sufficient for an SM? Curious as I would like a non TC engine when I have to replace my Volvo TDM22. Kind regards, Jean-Pierre Germain, Eleuthera, SM007, NZ
On 30 Dec 2020, at 14:08, Larry Salibra <larry@...> wrote:
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Re: Placement of Beta 60 in an Amel Maramu
#replacement
Larry Salibra
Hi Dirk,
Sula (SM 140) also has a Beta 60 fitted by the previous owner. She has the standard 70 amp 12v insulated return alternator and the 24v 60amp insulated return secondary alternator. No adjustments were made to oil and fuel filters. Larry SM140 Sula Hong Kong
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Re: Fuel Tank Leak
James Alton
Dennis,
My tank had what looked like a gooey brownish tar like deposit in the lower part of the tank. The upper parts of the tank looked pretty clean. I found that Acetone would cut the deposits so I added some Acetone (a liter or so) and rocked the tank back and forth. I then removed the shut off valve and drained as much of the solvent out as possible. Then working through the shutoff valve hole I swished around a pc. of cloth on the end of a flexible wire to help remove the deposits and soak up the remaining Acetone. I probably repeated this process at least 10 times at which point the drainage was coming out clean and the inside of the tank that I could see looked shiny so I this method seemed to work pretty well. I was able to dry out almost all of the Acetone using dry rags poked into the shutoff hole. Acetone wants to evaporate quite quickly so I just left the fill, vent and shut off valve hole open for a couple of days until the Acetone smell was essentially gone based on the smell test. I then placed a wet dry vac on the ground well away from the boat and using a long hose drew fresh air through the tank for an hour or so to be really sure that all fumes were removed before the welding. Recognize that a wet dry vac is an ignition source so if you use this method be sure that essentially all of the fumes are gone and that you place the vacuum well away from anything important just in case! I was confident that the Acetone was gone at that point but if something bad was going to happen I wanted it to happen away from the boat and not during the welding.
All of the cracks were located on the forward end of the tank and the tank fits up pretty close to the bulkhead. I used a dental mirror initially to find the cracks. In retrospect and given that removal of the tank is really not that hard to do, I think that I could have saved time just moving the tank into the pass thru area so that I could fully inspect the tank directly. I was actually able to inspect every surface of the tank, even the bottom. The crack that was seeping was not very obvious, quite fine. I will try to attach a photo to this post. The other cracks that I found were even less obvious.
The welder was naturally concerned about possible fumes in the tank. I explained the process I used to clean the tank and then he smelled the fuel fill pipe and was happy with the lack of fumes. I spent a few hours going over the whole tank ahead of the welding process, cleaning and polishing areas to locate all of the cracks. I marked everything that I was able to find. The welding only took about 2 hours and the tech welded a lot of spots that we not leaking.
Best of luck and if you have additional questions that I can help with let me know.
James
SV Sueno
Maramu #220
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Johns <sbmesasailor@...> To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Group Moderators <main@amelyachtowners.groups.io> Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2020 12:54 pm Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Fuel Tank Leak Hi James,
Thanks for your response, sorry that you had to resolve this problem before me but glad I have an alternative to cutting through the deck. Yes, I know the tank fits in the companionway to the aft berth, I've had it out before....Some questions:
1) Did you do the cleaning yourself or if not what type of person did you hire?
2) How did you find the crack(s)? Were they obvious or is there a special method?
3) Wasn't the welder concerned about residual fumes?
3) How long did the process take?
Thanks
Dennis
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Re: Amel 50, Mainsheet Bridle
Nice solution. Bill
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 1:48 PM Don Malin <don@...> wrote: When sailing upwind I generally try to center the boom for best performance which means I have to pull the traveler most of the way to windward after each tack. With the 4:1 tackle supplied as standard with the boat this can require a fair amount of effort. I see that some owners have added another set of blocks to increase the purchase and apparently Amel has even equipped their new 60 model with an electric winch for this purpose. What I did instead was rig up a simple bridle system. See the attached photos below. The two bridle lines are still attached to the traveler car so adjustments can still be made but tacking the main is now entirely hands free and the boom stays nicely centered.
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Re: "Apple is examining a chemistry for the car battery called LFP, or lithium iron phosphate, for its car", that will bring the cost down for all of us
Scott SV Tengah
Both Apple and Tesla are touting a next generation battery tech called LFP - not sure how they can claim this without the FTC intervening for false advertising. Lithium Iron Phosphate has been commercially available for almost 20 years and is what I and every other boat that has lithium is using.
One potential change is that I believe, but am not sure, that current LFP batteries (like my Victron) use 18650 cells packaged together in the box. They look like big AA batteries, so the cylinders have some dead space in between. I guess if you can design a more space efficient component, you can pack more energy into the same battery box. Maybe important on a car, but my battery compartment isn't even half full, so space is not an issue. -- Scott 2007 A54 #69 SV Tengah http://www.svtengah.com
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Re: battery balancers /A54/ Victron AGM
Hi Ulrich,
What I mean is all the cables that connect each of the batteries to the common +ve and -ve points should be the same length. And, separately, all the connections to the balancers should be the same length. Good luck Alan Elyse SM437
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Amel 50, Mainsheet Bridle
Don Malin
When sailing upwind I generally try to center the boom for best performance which means I have to pull the traveler most of the way to windward after each tack. With the 4:1 tackle supplied as standard with the boat this can require a fair amount of effort. I see that some owners have added another set of blocks to increase the purchase and apparently Amel has even equipped their new 60 model with an electric winch for this purpose. What I did instead was rig up a simple bridle system. See the attached photos below. The two bridle lines are still attached to the traveler car so adjustments can still be made but tacking the main is now entirely hands free and the boom stays nicely centered.
All that was required were two dyneema dog bones and a pair of free standing blocks at the traveler ends. The deck area around the traveler ends has a solid wood core so it's plenty strong. The system has even survived an accidental flying jibe 8-O. Don Malin Amel 50, #19 - Nina
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Re: Fuel Tank Leak
Dennis Johns
Hi James, Thanks for your response, sorry that you had to resolve this problem before me but glad I have an alternative to cutting through the deck. Yes, I know the tank fits in the companionway to the aft berth, I've had it out before....Some questions: 1) Did you do the cleaning yourself or if not what type of person did you hire? 2) How did you find the crack(s)? Were they obvious or is there a special method? 3) Wasn't the welder concerned about residual fumes? 3) How long did the process take? Thanks Dennis
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Re: Main mast foil play
Craig, It certainly is! Best, CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... 720 Winnie, Galveston Island, Texas 77550 www.AmelOwnersYachtSchool.com Yacht School Calendar: www.preparetocastoff.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html
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Re: Main mast foil play
Hi Bill -
Perhaps another advantage of the SN having the same beefy hardware as her big sister. Cheers, -- SN68 Sangaris, Tropic Isle Harbor, FL
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