Hi Trevor, The hull and the prop were cleaned completely last year and I had the same situation not more speed than 6 knots. I thought also about barncacle growth but after cleaning hull and prop

He Rink Thanks a lot SM Balu stay in Greece by 25.07 in Messolonghi then we raund for 5 weeks the Pelepones Maybe we see us Elja

Hi Philipp, How is the cleanness of your prop and hull? No barnacle growth? Trevor SV Iris, SN027 Phuket - on the hard

Hi all, Does anybody has an idea what I still can do with my engine (TMD22), that I get back my speed from 7 knots with 2300 RPM and with the max RPM of 3500 and a speed through the water with 8

Hi Elja, You can find some more posts about this at the group site. If it is the same as on our SM2K 2001 it is a Calpeda B-CM 20, sold through Climma/Veco. You can find details on the

Hi Chris, I have just changed my turbo charger and I don't get 3500 RPM at the moment. An overhaul of the trubo is for sure not bad, but maybe you won't get your envisaged result. I thought first that

Hi again Chris, I got so excited about the rpm ,I forgot to tell you that if the prop with a missing blade is a auto prop you can buy new blades for it from Bruntons the manufacturer. Either singly or

Hi Chris, if you have the Volvo TMD 22 78hp 2800rpm is the correct max revs. Many of us sweated over this for years without knowing this. I will say it again. 2800rpm is the correct max revs for the

Hi again Chris, Kristy is my first sailboat, and my first big boat. I was the absolute worst about asking questions that now seem straightforward. The folks on this group were happy to take me by

Chris, I havevan older SM with the fixed blade prop and a newer Volvo TMD 22 engine. Our max rpm is also 2800 with the fixed blade. The engine runs like a top and has zero smoke. Perhaps this is

This is all now getting confusing!!!! Max Prop, Auto Prop, c-drives, fixed prop, let me throw Spurs into the equation. The boat we are buying is a 1998, SM 224. What prop would have come standard

Hallo groop we have problems withs ouer pump from the airconditione I think i have to take a new one because we have repair it too times last yaer Anyone know the model ?? SM 222 1998 Thaks

Exactly what I expected, and for the reason I imagined. :) The Autoprop blades have a couple more "degrees of freedom" than other feathering props! Bill K

Thomas, I have the EasyView right to the switch of the onan switchboard. This year they have a new version which connects to USB for programming. I have the grey version and no color display and

Mark, You are correct. The zinc has separated from the brass bolt. I’m going to investigate things a little further when we get back on the boat tomorrow, I think it is sound advice to remove the

Thanks Eric On 24 Jun 2017, at 06:28, kimberlite@... [amelyachtowners] <amelyachtowners@...> wrote:

On Kristy, the new MaxProp fit almost perfectly on the old shaft used for the AutoProp, There was less than a mil in a couple of spots that were trimmed on the MaxProp by a prop shop to make a perfect

Thanks Peregrinus, I omitted that I mentioned that (the lack of mode and the potential need to setup the charger with a constant voltage output) to the UK guy and he basically said not to bother as