Hi all, I'll come in on this too to tell our got off lightly story. Within months of beginning our adventures in 2009 we went ashore. On return we heard the bilge pump running. There was a pin hole

Hi James, Sorry to hear of your woes. This summer I installed a bright red LED at the helm. The LED is bright enough to see in daylight. It is parallel wired to the red bilge light on the 24v

I installed bilge pump buzzer to avoid this or similar problems . I connected it parallel to the bilge pump light on 24v panel. The buzzer sits behind the panel. It buzz when the bilge pump is

I think that you will find that the life of an Isotemp heating element and gasket to be closer to 6 years than 10. The first thing that fails is that the element will get very small pin holes that

I do not know if others have had water heater problems, but I thought I should post something about my hot water heater issues that might help others avoid the problem I had. On our crossing to the

As the old saying goes "it's better to be luck than good". I replaced the fuse and all is well. I'm thinking the chain must have caught the fairing of the thruster and stopped it from raising, thus

Alexandre, thanks for the photo, I thought it might be in there. Bill & Bill, thanks for thinking it through with me. The whole sordid story borders on the stupid, but we were anchoring at night in

Duane, Wen you say “unresponsive” does that include the jack screw? i.e., Does it go up and down? And just an addition to make this thread generic... Older model SM bow thrusters have no

Good morning Duane, If you scroll down the pictures, you will see the red color fuse inside the black control box. But as Bill said, yours being newer could be

Duane, That fuse goes inside the control box which is inside the compartment for the bow thruster. At least I think the control box is inside. You have a late model bow thruster...I am not sure if

There is an automotive style fuse taped to the bow thruster. Where does it go? The bow thruster is unresponsive and I'm hoping that's the problem. Duane Wanderer, SM477

The way I understand it, you have two options from Amel or the manufacturer who were very slow in their response to me. One, you can purchase a new motor which I understand includes the gear or two,

Thanks Bill, Danny and Barry I have sent pictures off to Maud and she is sourcing the part for me. Will also upload a picture of this broken part to the site in case others find the same issue as it

Hi Christian & James, The plugs on the dodger look like the plastic ends that fit into the ends of a bicycle handlebar. I was lucky in that my previous owner left a bag of them onboard. Try bringing

Better yet, if you can't fix it, buy one that works on 50 AND 60Hz. Kent

The ground fault problem is in the browning element. With that disconnected, the microwave does not cause the main panel circuit breaker to trip when the microwave circuit breaker is depressed, and

Hi Derrick. My microwave (not sure it's the same as yours, but I think so) died a few years ago in St Lucia, it was tripping the microwave breaker. An electrician there (way above my pay grade) took

Derick, Your past transgressions have moved forward to bite you in the but. It does not happen immediately, but 60htz fries 50htz microwave electronics. Gladly, you are now in the land of 50htz. If

Thanks all for your responses. Bill, I can attest to the fact that the microwave had been previously used on 60 Hz, but I am currently in Martinique and the electricity here, as you know, is strictly