Much depends on whether you wish to sail in Canadian waters. If not, there is no tax or duty issues involved. If so, then as others have suggested choose your jurisdiction wisely. Double check the

Hi Jeff, Randall et al Canuckians, I did just as Randall. No regrets. Jean-Pierre Germain, Eleuthera, SM007, NZ

Here is a bit of summary of the LiFePO4 battery conversion that we have been through on BeBe over the last year. I’ll start off with a bit about ourselves as context for some of our decisions.

Re milky oil: also for us just now, the oil seemed very slightly milky after an oil change in NZ about 50 hours ago. Now after about another 10 hours all seems fine. I also would love an explanation

Thanks Craig, your message is relaxing me. ;-) Von: "main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io" <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> on behalf of "Craig Briggs via groups.io" <sangaris@...> Antworten an:

HI Daniel and Lori Thanks for sharing your experience and the explanation Best regards Ruedi & Sabina, sv WASABI A54#55 Von: "main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io" <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> on

Hello Jeff, I looked into buying Moon dog an SM in Pennsylvania. When they told me how much the tax and duty with the need for the Government survey, I found it easier to just go to France and buy an

Hi all, To give an update: An refrigeration engineer friend came to have a look and found the system low on refrigerant, but couldn’t find a leak. The usual culprit (the seals in the quick fittings)

Kent, I think youmentioned in the past you use Growie Insurance and their Jack-line policy.Check with them for offshore medical plans. If I recall correctly theyrepresent IMG. There are

Hello Paul! My suggestion to you on this topic would be, "It depends." It seems like that is always the answer to a sailing question, but let me expand a bit. The Amel metal muffler does have a

Hi Jeff, in Austria is the same issue for registration. I send the drawing, every Amel have it in its papers to a nautical engineer and he did this for me. So the tax can calculate by the

Hello Jeff as you have probably come to understand, the Canadian tonnage is a nearly but not exactly the same thing as the UK tonnage. It is based on ancient and arcane measurements that support the

Since 2018 incident where a Dutch ICP registered GERMAN vessel illegally entered MALTESE waters with 234 migrants the Dutch government swiftly issued a law that Dutch ICP Registry is no good and is

Hi Jeff, Hmmm. Have you thought of a Dutch or Belgian registry? Resale might be simpler.... Good luck Jean-Pierre Germain

Hi Jean-Pierre, It is a Canadian Transport Canada thing. Need a Canadian registered surveyor to complete a tonnage certificate form if the boat is over 15m to register the boat in Canada. I used

Hello Jeff, I am Canadian as well and my reg is UK. Why do you need CDN surveyor for tonnage? I used the renowned surveyor named Olivier Beauté, ex director of after sales at Amel. He is

Hi Ian, My forward intake valve handle corroded such that I couldn't turn it and broke off the valve stem trying. The corrosion was from sea water accumulating from an inconspicuous leak in the

Mike, There is no real reason to seal them. They should have a drip leg so most of the water runs off outside the mast, but any water than does follow the wire into the mast runs down and accumulates

Hi All, In the process of buying SM#379 Spruzzo (thinking of keeping the name). Boat is currently in Sicily and plan on cruising the Med for the next few years. I'm going to register the boat in

Boy, Kent, you’ve opened up a can of worms, that fortunately non-Americans may not have to deal with. I don’t know if you have “traditional” Medicare, or the other privately administered