James, Just bring a hose and connector with you to a hydraulic shop. Most shops stock the hose and if you are lucky, they will put the fittings on for you. Fair Winds Eric

James, I am glad to see you are enjoying life. We will be around St Maarten at the start of the season. If you happen to want to bang your way back that way. A few years we sailed from Santa Marta

Eric, or anyone else - Do you know what the ID is for the hydraulic hose in order to use the field serviceable / re-usable fittings? There are quite a few different specs for hydraulic hose, but I

Good point. I check that line on a regular basis - thanks to you giving me that bit of advice about a year ago. Thanks!

As an afterthought, check the rubber hose that attaches the stove to the propane supply line. The hose was rubbing on the stove and I was lucky to catch it before I had a problem. I have replace it

Doesn't that make it stiff and nullify the impact absorbing properties? Seems to me if you backed into a dock you might split the fibre glass Cheers Alan Elyse SM437

Thanks Eric.

The fittings are meant to be reused. I just find them to be a pain, you also need a cap or an elbow, jic to do it. Attached are instructions. Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

James, I had my hoses duplicated at a hydraulic shop in St. Maarten. They used aeroquip hose and swage on fittings. They are much less money than the do it yourself ones that come with the

Perhaps there is no need to have new fittings, since it is the hose that needs to be replaced at 5 year intervals, more or less. Is it quite simple to re-use the old fittings on new hydraulic hose?

Good evening everyone. I have a Dessalator 160L/hr, and I'd like to order a spare set of high pressure hoses with fittings. Online, I am finding these to be quite expensive with stainless steel JIC

Painting stainless isn’t a good idea. Stainless requires contact wit air to be “stain.less”. It’s also difficult to get paint to stick to stainless. ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

This is Tom Deasy S/Y Aphrodite Thanks to all that responded to my fuel tank problem. It came out with no problems other then cutting the fuel inlet pipe off to clear the hatch way. It has rust

Very cleaver. Thanks Fair Winds Eric Amel Super Maramu #376

He Andrew We sail from 2004-2015 an Euros 39 built in 1968 You have a verry good boat but a lot of work You get it ! We had a hydraulik steering sytem too For the engine we had an Perkis 4108 Have a

Covering it with fiberglass makes sense. Whenever we back into aslip we always have a fender back there anyway trying to protect the expensive bumperJ Thinking aboutthis method some more, a

Andy, Wade, James Thanks for this great info If you have any photos of the removal and hose positions they would be greatly appreciated. All the best Miles Maramu 162

I thought the same but was advised that this is dispersing micro volts. I'm not nerdy enough to argue. They talk so high over my head I can barely hear them. lol So I will go with the Copper I have

Someone on a previous discussion on this topic suggested copper water pipe hammered flat Seemed sensible cheap option to me and might give it a go All the best Miles Maramu 162

Hi Andrew Welcome to the board ! One thing to check with the steering is the cables and how well they are moving These are very hard to replace for the older models - I looked into buying spares a