My penny’s worth. Amelia is my third sailboat but I also worked as a professional yacht captain for nearly 20 years on numerous vessels. I have to say that, in general, my Amel 54 is the best

Hi John, Thank you and to the other participants in this topic for your time and insights. Your post with the story about how you came to know Amel yachts was a great read, this was exactly the kind

There is a single non-spliced cable from the battery switches for both positive and negative wires. There is a single start battery. It is not the wire, unless you have cut or damaged one and that is

We re-rigged our vessel without pulling the masts out. It was done in the berth by riggers without any difficulty. It certainly avoided a haul out and/or a crane expense. Best Regards Barry &

Better yet, do what I did and have your wife go up the mast so you don't hurt yourself :-) Cheers, Craig & Katherine SN68 Sangaris.

Hello Mike and Alan, Delos did it all themselves sometimes back. I am considering doing it myself with one younger more nimble guy in the bosun’s chair. Good luck. Jean-Pierre Germain,SY Eleuthera

Hi Alan. We are looking at rerigging in the next few months with one vendor wanting to pull the mast and another planning to do it in place. Had not considered doing it ourselves. Have you completed

Try starting. Keep let turned for maybe 10 seconds. Now carefully feel each battery cable termination. Better yet, if you have a no contact infra red thermometer, check each termination’s

Hello, My engine battery was not able to start the Yanmar this morning. I jumped start the engine successfully using the House battery bank The engine battery is 2 month old and charged. A

To make it clearer, Amel uses a “floating”, or “isolated” ground system that disconnects battery negative from the bonding (zincs) system. It makes a connection to the engine block only when

Orion- I'd second these comments but also point out that your maintenance costs depend largely on picking a good Amel and how quickly you climb the learning curve where you can do most of the work

Gerhard, thanks for that. There was a lot more information I sent him off-group. Eric, Thank you very much for the diode reminder...I sent him your detailed posting along with your photos that you

You beat me to it, Eric. That was the first thing that came to mind, too, unless the engine is new to him and he doesn’t know to push the stop button before turning off the key as Gerhart

Hi all, I'm rebuilding my mainsail manual furling gearbox and found Pat's info from SM123 very helpful. All the bearings and seals were listed except for the lip seal for the winch handle socket. The

There are two diodes in the circuit before the solenoid with the black rubber top. They are connected to one of the small wires on the solenoid. These diodes prevent the engine from starting and

I went by the office as I heard there was a 50 in the harbor across from my boat. The 50 was returned to the main office and is now back in Huntington. I am going to take a look at it Saturday. If

Thank you Bill for your statement ! It's all right and if Amel hits 30%, it's more than fair. For this you always get the right part sometimes in Europe in 24 hours, you don't have to search and

Bill Perhaps you misunderstand. He is already stopping the engine by hand with the level at the injection pump. But he wants to stop the engine with the stop button at the engine panel using the stop

JLM, Sure it is possible for a person to correctly duplicate anything, but many fail. Look how Chinese parts appear to be exactly the same, but....you know the answer. Sometimes the variance in

Look at this photo I just uploaded: https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main/photo/83780/0?p=Created,,,20,2,0,0 Best, CW Bill Rouse Yacht School (formerly Amel School) - Supporting Amel Owners 720