Won’t running over 56-58 bar affect the membrane life? Off hand do you know the pressure range specs for the membrane? I run ours at the low end of the green, thinking I’m being

I learned something today with from a great 54 owner, fromDessalator, and from reading the recent specifications sheet for Filmtec SW30membranes. · The actual pressure for the Green Zone on a

I have witnessed a SS anchor chain snap before my own eyes and helped dealing with the emergency to save the boat (not an amel) from the lee shore in the swell of the marquesas and that kind of put me

Hi Teun, No, it’s only when we let out the full chain for whatever reason. So it’s very rare and only to minimise the chance of bungling it during business as usual. (That rarely happens anyway,

Hello Scott, In 2007, Amel used to buy SS chains from WASI GERMANY. Olivier BEAUTÉ Envoyé de mon iPhone

As an aside, does anyone know who makes the Amel oem stainless chain? It has a 5 stamped on it, if that helps? -- Scott 2007 A54 #69 SV Tengah http://www.svtengah.com

Teun, What you need is a big wallet and 100 meters of Cromox 10mm (made by Ketten Wålder, https://www.ketten-waelder.de/en/) 😂 Arno Luijten, SV Luna, A54-121

Actually the way it works at VP is that any significant change in the production of the eingine results in a new trailing character. Most Amels 54s have C because that is the one for wich production

Also if you know what bearings and caps I need to order. Aras -- Aras Grinius

Voker, Can you send some more pictures of the assembly? I'm curious to see how each piece fits together. Aras Sharki #163 1988 -- Aras Grinius

Problem solved:-) The ship yard was able to take the swivel apart and to grind the plastic bearings a bit, so that they are turning now smoothly. The start of the problem was that the previous owner

So glad to see some good reports on the VP. Our 110-IC is still running strong at 2200 hours and has been very reliable. It’s good to see that there is a good option out there, once needed. Thanks

Agree Teun. The H is a different animal. We’re at about 550 hours on our “H,” replaced early 2019. Flawless so far (as it should be!). Quiet. Very smooth. More efficient. No smoke. The C

Thomas, Does this mean that every time you weigh anchor that somebody is guiding this device by hand in the right direction to evenly spread the anchor chain? If so then I clearly have too

Yes Sir – makes completely sense and that’s the same engine Porter McROBERTS and I have. The previous engine was D3-110i-C Thanks for the help. Best Regards Teun A54 2009 #128 September 8,

From what I can tell, and the documentation is spares on this, we have a D3-110i-H Does that make any sense? ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

Matt, I don’t think VP changes designation per year as the 2007 A54 have the “C” and for sure also the 2009 A54 had “C”. Clearly between 2009 and 2017 they went from “C” to “H”

A second autopilot is now installed on Mickmoon and is working fine. It became a Raymarine Evolution EV200 with a Jefa DD1 direct drive unit. I have sailed with the new auto pilot during the last 3

Thanks to everyone who gave us information! I thought I would update on what we did to solve the problem of the seal. In the end we managed to solve the problem of the leaking oil, but it looks as if

Hi Volker, when the bearings by ship yard not in the store, send me the numbers from the bearings. I will ask in our company, if the bearings in our store or if there an alternative typ. Best