Hi All owners from "old" Super Maramus, I have the situation, that on my SM #124 I have alternating hot and warm water in the showers. The cold water is this season in La Rochelle real cold, that I

Craig, Of course the generator does not have a variable speed. What I meant is that we usually do not run the genset under enough load. 80 percent of the output of a 7.5 kw genset, I believe should

Hey Alexandre, I've found the Northern Lights to be really good. Mine has 7500 hours, doesn't burn a drop of oil and only routine maintenance needed (never rebuilt). I'm now installing my 3rd set

Good afternoon Duane, sorry to read about your washing machine problem… Regarding the extra GPS antenna, I had one at the same location. More precisely as you remove the top access of the roof,

Fiberglass is mostly transparent to radio waves, so it should have only a tiny impact on signal strength. But GPS (and any satellite) signals are already very weak, so it might be enough to cause you

In tracing down the wiring on the boat I've found another GPS antenna! It provides position data to the ACR Nauticast B AIS. It was installed in the ceiling space above the midship cabin (just fwd

I woke up this morning to our fresh water pump happily pumping away, but nobody was using water! A quick check found that the hose going from the sink cabinet shut-off valve to the port side and

Hello Craig, Wow the fisher panda runs that high!!! How do you like your Northern Light? (asking as I am thinking about buying a house and will consider putting a small genset). Nice you have the Amp

Hi Alexandre,Yes indeed, my oops; indeed it's 1500/1800 rpms. I was thinking of the Fischer Panda generators that run at 3000/3600 rpms. My genset is a 4.8/6.0 kw Northern Lights at 1500/1800. My AC

Good morning Craig, If I may step in, the Onan actually run at either 1500 or 1800 rpm depending on its frequency setting. The load is the issue, which why several owner (Bill, Gary, Eric, etc.) have

Clogged up elbows are pretty common. As said by others mainly because of under utilization of the engine's power. You need to push it into 70%-80% of it's power to achieve the high temperatures in the

Last year during the survey of my SM #37 (1990) there was a puff of black smoke and some floating oil sheen, just for a second. Never repeated. The previous owners had not run the genset in several

Hi Eric, You bring up an interesting point when you say you had the same carbon build up problem in your genset exhaust elbow, caused by not running at high enough rpm's. Unless you've got a variable

We put in the exact system two years ago. While I had some concern about the proximity to the salon air conditioning unit and freezer, I did place the EV unit in the corner behind the settee, aft. The

Hi, sand blasting does a great clean up on exhaust elbows. You will soon see if they are perforated. Obviously they are removed from the boat for the process. Regards. Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl

Hi, I had his problem with my genset. It is caused by not running a diesel at about 80% of its redline. Diesels like to work hard. Our diesels are not run that hard so is the main engine. Yanmar

Hi all: While my boat is undergoing hurricane damage repair I am working on routine maintenance. I decided to replace the open bearings in my bow thruster with SS6006-2RS sealed stainless steel

Hello to the Group, We own an Amel 54 and used the spinnaker boom for the genua sometimes together with the gennaker on the other side for downwindsailing.In progress of planning a transatlantic

David, Exactly as I thought, but these Amel owners are doing the same thing. I wanted them to hear it from you, a respected sailmaker and an owner of an Amel. Best, Bill Rouse Amel

Dave, Maybe you missed the fact, that I sent Mack Sails, Amels original sail dimensions for a Super Maramu, as well as my old sail. Even though I am confident they could build a sail the correct size