My chain counter is powered up anytime the 24/12 volt is on. I have interrupter switches on all my electronics but I cannot trace the counter power source. It's not in any of the Amel wiring

All, Today a member of the Amel Yacht Owners Group notified me that they believed a recent message was "objectionable." Each of us has the right to tag a message as objectionable. This is the first

Hi Amo, Thank you for your thoughts. I appreciate them. I have been coming to St Maarten for over 22 years and know many people in office and In official positions. Hank from Avocation is a

Good afternoon Alexandre, Thank You for keeping an eye on Kimberlite !! I completely understand the logic about not letting anyone on to the island. However Hank offered to self quarantine

Hi Eric, I'm a resident of St. Maarten. I will not try to defend the gouvenment of St. Maarten as these are as incompentent as they get in the Caribbean. However the current situation in the world

Good morning Eric, Advocation has been the gossip of the island. But I think, he needs to understand that since the 22nd, the island is in complete shut down, no one, not even the “resident”

Courtney you made. Bless you and your family. I called to you on vhf outside of St.Pierre. I'm so happy that you made it safely. What a journey! We were heading to Trinidad before they closed the

We we’re headed to Saint Martin when all of this started we left Martinique on Sunday the 15th and then sale up to Dominica the situation there was that we were going to have to self quarantine to

Hi, I was planning on flying down to Kimberlite which is in St Maarten last Tuesday. Unfortunately the island was closed as of last Monday. Since Pantaenius is not renewing any policies, I need an

Thanks Kent. I would stay with the bronze WOB. It saved you this time. Without it that corosion would have happened somewhere else. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl

Gary and Danny, I am certain that you are right about the WOB acting as the sacrificial anode. If this had gone on any longer, might have had catastrophic failure of the WOB. What damage would have

Thank you Joel. As usual, your perspective is extremely valuable to us all. I appreciate the Amel design and rarely deviate from it. Since mine is a MaxProp, I can still put a zinc in it and still

Hi again Gary and Kent, further to my last. I do depart from Amel advice regarding zincs. Because the c drive, the shaft and the propeller are so critical I always have a shaft zinc between the prop

Hi Gary, I think you have put your finger on it. That erosion of the exterior of the WOB is something I have never seen and your reasoning that the least noble metal eroded sounds right. Brass is an

Hi Kent: What a great find and a great discussion along with Joel's post. Sooooo valuable. Thanks for sharing. Glad you got that WOB (wearing out bearing) out. It is still a bit of a mystery to

Hi Gary, That is a nice place to store a life raft. However if you have even had your total boat under water, As I have, you will probably lose the raft. That’s why I keep mine in the port locker.

Kent, In that case I would drill and tap it in 3 or 4 places. You will need a small wrench to turn the tap. Use brass screws in case they break—or possibly drill it and insert a few eazy outs

Hello everyone and here is yet another installment of more than you ever wanted to know about… During my first visit to Chantiers Amel in the early 1980’s I spent several hours each day under

Well I wanted to test the bonding for my keel bolt this weekend, so I finally did the dreded annual bilge cleaning. Since we previously had a grease based stuffing box, needless to say it was a messy