Matt, Thanks. I found another good article on changing the filter here: http://www.marshmarine.net/index_14.htm -- Mark McGovern SM #440 Cara Deale, MD USA

Hi Dan, I took a 24V positive feed from the 24V supply that's on the forward wall of the engine room to a circuit breaker mounted in the same box as the watermaker cct breaker. From the cct breaker to

Thanks guys I’ll let you know how I get on Cheers Miles

Hello Annesophie & Jonas Your stove modification sounds terrific ! Could you share the plan of the housing for the cooktop and the store ? Kind regards Nick sv DarNico sm2k #471

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He paul , We ordert new gaerboxes in Italy and install one new . It was not expencive Only the leroy somer motor you ca order it only by amel It was not possoble to order the motor by leroy

Hi James, I would defer to Craig and Ian regarding the headliner replacement project since Liesse had this done professionally when we bought her. I appreciate your suggestion regarding the trim

Checking to see if anyone would be interested in showing off their SM or 54 to me an the girlfriend the weekend of 9 - 12 November in the Hampton Roads area. Cheers! Brian

I discover today that the two lids on the Leroy Sumer gear box for the main furler was broken. Any chance that anyone of you has a lid or two laying around and could sell those. also interested in

Miles, On our SN there's a thin wood finish trim strip that's nailed on the inside. That has to carefully be pried off to expose a row of bolts that need to be removed in addition to the screws

Miles Correct for Santorin. I presume it may be the same on the Maramu. A tip when finishing any overlaps of the new fabric on the sides - scrape the foam backing off the overlapping section so

Hi Ian Many thanks for this response Can I just confirm how you managed to remove the ply window panels? Sounds like you are saying that as soon as the window screws and bolts were out then the ply

I use the Raymarine fluxgate compass from Autopilot over NMEA 0183 to get magnetic heading and calculating true wind. There might be a delay, not sure, in my NMEA 2 K setup by reading this

Hi Alan, I'm glad that you mentioned wiring in the fresh water pump. I have the flush solinoid, but have not controlled the fw pump that way. That has left me with the concern of leaving the pump on

High John. The sunk yacht was a Bavaria with a cirumnavigation under its belt with the same skipper. The 4 on boatd were all experienced off shore sailors. Apparently the windows stove in. I am sure

Miles I replaced all the headlining in the aft cabin. For the roof I did put the lining on thin ply. I then used Velcro to position the panels correctly and keeping it all in place by screwing wooden

No we regularly get 50 plus knots in cook strait that are easier to deal with from a northerly direction than from the south. (Nothing between us and the Antarctic ). which means the wind cold and

Dave, I would like to eventually replace the entire liner in my boat as well so am curious about how the job went? The flat areas of the overhead look pretty straight forward but what about the

OK, thanks...I was just trying to pass on what appeared to be a good deal --