I am the owner of a 33 year old Perkins 4-154 with 9600 hours on it. When I bought the boat it had 4600 hours. I have never cleaned/changed the injectors or adjusted the valves. I change the fuel

I have to respectfully disagree with Bob as far as tackling the North Atlantic. My wife and I will soon complete our circumnavigation having gone down the west coast of Central America, turning west

How very strange... I have installed two of these on different boats and never heard a thing inside the boat. Either my ears are not very good, (they are not!) or your unit transmits on lower order

Alexandre, You did a truly excellent job of documenting the bow thruster service. May I ask how often you replace your bearings? Best, James Alton SV Sueno, Maramu #220 Arbatax, Italy

Hello again Rick, The pictures you see are actually when I purchased the vessel. As you can see it was (still is) in excellent condition! The red/green came with the boat, it just show when the wheel

Good morning Rick, Here are the various owner manuals. Depending of the SM or SM2K model you have, you will see slight difference or evolutions on the battery chargers or air intake for the Espar

No annoying "Tock...Tock...Tock" with the ST800? Kent S/V Kristy SM243 .

Thanks for that Herbert. I already have an annoying sound coming from the grey water hose for the forward shower/sink. There is a low spot in that hose and often an air pocket forms that causes a

We also mounted the P79 next to the old B&G transducer. Easy to install, works fine and gives good readings, but the sound that it makes is annoying, the „tock – tock - tock …“ encourages me

When we no longer needed the factory transducer hole under the forward cabin, we simply used the spare black plastic blanking plug that Pochon kindly left there tied to a little string. Hull No. 350

Curt, You did say Maramu without the “Super” prefix? If so you should have adequate water depth in the ICW if you are careful at least as far North as New Smyrna. The fixed bridges will be

Amel Owner needs help: While underway from Fajardo, P.R. toBrunswick, GA with paid delivery captain and crew, on our Maramu, Languedoc,the captain became very concerned about water in the forward

Aha! Kent

Rick, Every Amel owner is going to have ideas about what modifications are “OK” and which ones go “too far”. We can get positively religious on the subject, with all of the arguments that come

I wonder what you call a watertight bulkhead with holes in it? Does it become a waterloose bulkhead? Just a lack of a basic grasp of what is going on! That’s a perfect example of the kind of thing

The frequency of the rain hitting the ocean interferes with the reception of the signal bounced off of the ocean floor...but only when it is a very heavy rain Bill Rouse BeBe Amel 53 #387 Sent from

Rick, One example of a modification to an Amel that concerned me involved drilling lots of holes in the watertight bulkheads to run new wiring. In this case, the boat had been converted from the

Hey bob, Was thinking through this a little deeper. In regards to owner modifications, I'm assuming you mean fundamental changes to how the boat operates correct? There are a few modifications that I

Alexandre, Just looked at your web site in more detail. You have done an incredible job on your boat. Looks brand new! Love the color in the interior. I was thinking something bright like burnt orange

Great, Bill. Just what I wanted to know. Kent S/V Kristy SM243