Can anyone recommend a book or resource on sail trim on a ketch that they’ve found useful? Our ‘79 Maramu #42 predates all those fancy articulating whisker poles and electric furlers, so nothing

Hello Bill, I’m interested in the rally but at the moment not sure if I will be in that area at that time. Olaf Katchopine, SM2K 392 Von: amelyachtowners@... Gesendet: Freitag, 25.

Got it. After adding James Cromie and Mark & Debbie Mueller, our total with some sort of interest is at 20. Current List: Joe & Tracie Nance CloudStreet SM 331 Eric Freedman Kimberlite

Please add Mark & Debbie Mueller to your "interested list". Currently still stuck on the east coast, not sure we will make it down that far. Mark & Debbie Mueller Brass Ring, A54

I'd be interested in the rally as well, though will likely be in Puerto Rico through May, then Martinique in June. Best, James Soteria #347 En route to rum cay

Here is an updated list of those that have expressed interest. Those of you that have expressed interest please ask Amels that you meet in the Caribbean if they are interested. I will begin to have

Bill I’m on and off the boat this year mainly in the BVI’s if timing is right I’d love to run into you all

Hi Bill, Please add Mark, Karen, Miles and Lucy on Lulu SM 391. Mark Isaac Lulu, SM 391 PDR, Fajardo, Puerto Rico

Hi Kent The first voltages you mentioned .... 28v abs, 26.4v float, 29.4v equalize. sound pretty much the norm to me for standard flooded deep cycle batteries 29v Abs, 27v float, and 31v

Hi Bill. You forgot me. Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

Bill, I am interested. Mark Pitt Sabbatical III, SM #419, Martinique

Update I have received some level of interest from 15 owners. I was hoping for more interest in a Caribbean Rally. Is there anyone else? I am not aking for a commitment, just Interest. Here is the

It would work...If you are going to go to the trouble of installing a switch, install a double pole switch and turn off both positive and negative. As you know there is better than a 95% chance the

I have been diligently checking the Masse- and + lights in the companionway. Over the past 5 years when one of the lights go on (usually the Masse - ) I go and disconnect the power lines to the

Hi Mark & Tom, Thanks for your thoughts. To answer your questions: I have battery voltage monitors on my solar panels as well as having checked with my multimeter, the voltages appear correct. I am

I am on Brava in Le Marin, Martinique getting some maintenance done. By mid March I expect to start traveling North to Antigua, and by late April set off for the Azores and then Gibraltar. The rally

Agree with Mark’s excellent advice. However, some battery load testers may show a poor rating on deep cycle batteries, as they are designed primarily for starter batteries. They may claim to be good

Awesome advice, thanks Mark. We have been off-line for so long on this last 5700nm crossing from Cape Town so had not yet got time to research the ABC's. We joined Y Insurance this year who have

I have for sale the complete (AMEL installed on 2009 AMEL 54) FURUNO navigation system: including radar, large monitors for nav station as well as in cockpit etc. All in good working condition.

(changed name of thread) Hi Colin, Interestingabout insurance. I have spent the past couple of months shopping for insuranceto get us through the Panama canal and across the S. Pacific. I