Hi, We are on the water world marina, Cole Bay, hoping to depart for the states this afternoon. We were planning to sail via Bermuda, but based on the weather forecast have decided to head

José, I have posted a picture of the motor and brake assembly in the Lone Star - A54 #101 album. The motor is fine. My problem is getting a replacement for the electromagnetic brake.

Thanks for the reply.

I have done that and the motor and brake were refurbished. The brake, however, now requires 35VDC before it will engage.

So my comments made it clear as mud, eh? Great, glad to be of help (-: Kent

So we take our boat out next week to clean and change the anodes - ours has the red plastic cap - I was convinced by recent discussions that I should fit it with a propeller anode. Now I am not so

The corrosion/electrolytic? damage was primarily under the "wearing out bearing" aft of the inner Oring. That is an area that has free flow of sea water between the bearing and the shaft, so maybe

I added a 12 V charger to keep the start battery topped up when at the dock for long periods. My FireBoy fire suppression system uses a small amperage and will deplete the battery after a couple of

Hello Alan and Richard, I had GLASS batteries in my last boat. They require some very specific handling. I will use lead/acid in any cruising vessel I purchase. Jean-Pierre

Hi if you change to glass batteries that are no maintenance you also need to change the charging pattern of your charging system that's the downside. The second downside is depending on where you

The first thing to do is (if you have not already done so) isto take it to a specialist electric motor repair facility and hope. I have beenamazed at the repairs that can be effected on motors that I

Personally I wouldn't worry too much about the start battery, I don't. The main engine has a dedicated alternator to charge the start battery...so every time you run the engine the start battery is

You could be right...the voltage potential is just so overwhelming everything goes.... I can't find a lot of logic in most of this.... I've just antifouled and refurbished the Autoprop with new

Depending on price I might be interested in a spare motor. Peter Forbes Amel 54 # 035 07836 209730

Hi Craig I think the main sail furling can be manufactured by LEROY SOMER in France, as the others systems used before in SM. Can you post the references of the motor and perhaps a photo? With them I

Thank you all, for your advice. Ross, Im not sure to wait for weeks; Because there is not much time before hurricane season;but I wonder what kind of mounts they are. I asked these mounts from us,uk

Ok sounds like I should leave well alone - in our last boat the -VE poles were tied together between the house and engine batteries with one common (black) master switch and the positive poles had

Hi Craig I also searched where I can get this motor. You can get the motor from Amel. It costs about 750 €. It is only possible to order 10 motors from Emerson but you will have to wait many weeks

There is an old joke. What do you get when you cross breed King Kongand a Canary—answer- I don’t know but when it talks you listen. I am a firm believer that wherever lightning want to go it

This is the Amel system. The -24V line is not connected to "ground" at all. The -12V starting battery line is only connected to ground during starting of the engines. All the -ve lines from 24V