Hi Bill, Thanks for your wise words of advice. This is actually hitting on one my least favorite aspects of an Amel, the usage of balsa-wood in the deck core. This should have been abandoned in favor

Hi Eric, First, I took a piece of stainless rod, bent the ends 90 degrees and threaded them, drilled a hole each side vertically through the stove side bar, mounted the rod and put a washer and nut

Keren and Bill, You were right. The source of the leak is the screws holding the main deck hatch. One screw was loose and it feels like the wood it is screwed into is rotted or at least

Thanks for your reply Scott. Think our problem was slightly different, maybe we got hold of an older version spare part. Thanks anyway for your info \Peter sy Maiken A54 #52

Yes you are right we did use a thick-walled pipe to put pressure onto the pipe instead of the driveshaft. Think the pipe wall thickness was something like 3mm. Attaching pics again as I think they

Hi Guillaume, It is a Whale Henderson Mark V manual bilge pump. As you are in Greece, the best place to buy a repair kit is SVB in Germany. They have an English language site and

Hi there Some thoughts on this based on my experience/preference We crossed the N Atlantic E to W recently in our mid 80s Maramu without a windvane It was my first longish offshore trip without vane

Check the hose connection, and then check the hose for leaks. I, and a couple of others on the forum have had to change the hose which hardens and cracks over the years. I dismantled my pump only to

Bill & Karen and everyone, I love your sketch and simple explanation of potentially a serious issue. I will add a word of caution. Small cracks in the gelcoat of any Amel can possibly lead to a

Hi Guillaume, On our SM (233), the manual bilge pump is a Henderson Mk 5 (now Whale). The service kit part number for ours is AK8050. The most likely failure is a hole in the diaphragm. Ryan and

Recently, as we have been using the manual bilge pump quite a lot due to a problem on the AMFA electric pump, I noticed a leak on that pump, and getting worse. Grey water coming from the ceiling of

Sorry about that mate, he did mention retiring but I did not realize it was so soon. Where abouts in Deltaville are you and when will you be heading south? Alan Grayson

I was pretty sure it had to be the cable. Glad you didn’t have to go into the water to sort it. Good luck! Brent-- Brent Cameron Future Amel Owner & Amel Owner Registry Moderator Oro-Medonte,

Hello, During research I found this particular cell balancing technique of FLASH Battery in Italy. Seems to have a lot of industrial applications/ What do you think of this . Regards Denis

Ok, so I think I have got to the bottom of the issue. It’s the cable adjustment. Seems obvious now. I disconnected the cable and shifted the box by hand, loads of drive. So I am going to have to

Try Edward Harbour, we used him when we were buying our SM a few years ago and he was really good. HARBOUR MARINE, LLC 217 Silver Maple Drive Chesapeake, Virginia 23322 (757) 477-2532 Best, Mark S/V

Bill and Karen, You know your stuff Bill, thanks for the alert on the exposed balsa core. When it comes to balsa core, prevention of damage is certainly far preferable to replacement! End grain

Hello Amelians, Here are our thoughts about this deck leak! Any deck leak, no matter how small, in the main cabin of a Super Maramu is a serious issue that needs to be addressed RIGHT AWAY. This is

I believe you had to do what we did when we ran into this problem. Did you use a piece of pipe to put pressure on with the puller to press the shaft tube out of the bottom motor plate mount? Pipe

New Bowthruster motor So, finally we managed to get the bowthruster apart. And for all, finding out why we couldn’t get the driveshaft down to it’s original position, ie some 20 mm lower. We had