Hi Volker, Originally, this Santorin has an aluminum casing C-drive, labelled CATEP, with a RH pitch propeller. Since 1990, the drive may have been replaced with a cast iron casing one, and if so, the

Hi I just want to get to the heart of this long discussion. I have 30 years of positive experience with a full tank and an additive for diesel. There was never water in the tank and organic pollution.

There is a third reason to keep the tank reasonably full. As the tank gets closer to empty the sloshing of the remaining fuel at lower levels will begin to stir up that sludge cocktail at the bottom

Woody, You adjust the engine mounts with the tool against the transmission output flange. Once the tool is centered on the flange you then continue to adjust the mounts until there is a plus or

Hi Bernd, When I purchased SM37 in 2016 the previous owner stressed to me to always keep the tank full and to always use the Baja filter. He said in the 16 years he had her no one drop of fuel

Bernd, the SN tank (I assume that SN119 is exact the same as SN120) has about 5l fuel (or a cocktail of fuel and water...) at the bottom of the tank that will stay there if you run it empty. I know

Pietro and Bernd, The small gear is held in place with a bolt and a key. And yes, Loctite should be used on the bolt.

Hi Bernd, I bet 5 cent that the upper gear attached to the vertical axe became loose because it’s not easy to tight the bolt, that happens to us, so I retighten the bolt applying Loctite and I

Basically, we are in vehement agreement. A buck converter is normally a component in an MPPT controller. ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

"Higher operating voltage panels are better" is an overgeneralization. You need to factor in the desired performance, costs of the other parts of the system, topology of your charge controllers, and

Matt, sure thats a policy discussion. it would be very interesting how high above the bottom of the tank the fuel is taken out of the tank and how many liters are unusable fuel. Will be a job for my

Hi Bill, the pin is in. From the sound what i hear it disconnected between the motor and the upper part of the shaft. will check again when I am back from work in a few weeks. what I think is strange

Joerg, Keep in mind, that the marketing claims made by Victron (a very good company, by the way) fit most panels on the market today. They all have to be “Marinized”, or waterproof, as they all

Amel installed Victron panels on the A55 as an option. I have 400W which work well. Those panels have blocking diodes which are supposed to improve performance in shaded locations. This is a

On my Santorins prop it says: L 19 x 14 L = left turning 19 = 19 inch = diameter of the prop 14 = 14 inch = theoretical distance achieved with 1 turn Daniel Frey, SN 64 / 1992

I have a friend in “the business”. His company installs solar panel systems on homes, businesses, and municipal buildings in New Jersey. He feared, and had lots to complain about the tariff wars,

Thank you for your responses Bill and Joerg. Their Hull Number is 009, so apparently you must be correct Joerg regarding the changeover from earlier to later hull numbers. I was mistaken with regard

Thanks for all the feedback. Bill Rouse's comment is kind of where I thought we might end up. That is few people have been through enough brands to be able to make a fair comparison, plus the

Steve, did you purchase the insert for rubrail with the same profile as attached in my previous message? AMEL is not sure if it will fit the 1997 model. All the best -- Jarek Zemlo NOA BLUE SM 201

That’s all really helpfull, thanks for that Herbert. So you slide the tool back and forth on the shaft to get the alignment right before bringing the engine and shaft back together after the jobs