Hi Chris, Please share pictures of how things look after you “unstack” the main switches. I have been considering that as well. Here are a few responses to your ideas: I would prefer to

Matt, How many coats of CC do you apply. I am fairing some holes in my gel coat and then plan to overcoat with Interprotect 2000. Can CC be applied over a barrier coat? Thanks, Pat SM#123

Oh, CC is about 2X the cost of conventional bottom paint. ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

We applied CC ourselves. It’s not easy. First, CC is not paint. It is a 2 part epoxy with copper powder (more like dust) mixed in. Two factors to deal with: 1) the copper does not stay in

Thanks everyone! My setup has me in 4 groups of 100AH 12V Battle Borns @24v (400AH). I have each group's positives and negatives aggregating to corresponding bus bars that then lead to the battery

We put our own copper coat on in Trinidad, just the two of us. In the heat it did need thinning down. We did a third of the hull at a time. We did not put a barrier coat on as it is an epoxy mixture

Hi Pat, check this out https://youtu.be/6JkCzOZ9k_Q they had few failures, but at the end worked out. Good summary on things to watch out for. They have few videos on their saga with copercoat, this

Can coppercoat be applied by an owner or does it need to be applied by a dealer ? If it can be installed by an owner ,what would you estimate the cost of materials would be . I had the impression that

With a winch handle locked into the manual furling socket and a line around it to the base of the mast to prevent it from turning. Alan Elyse SM437

As suspected and expected - did Bills's step by step, literally in 5 mins crisis is over! Thanks you all. Now another thing, the gear seem to be weak / maybe finished (from before the episode), and

Many thanks to all for the feedback on this. I can now happily leave the scraping until we get back to Grenada. Cheers, Paul S/Y Ya Fohi - Amel 54 #98 - Grenada

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SM 316 with 8 100Ah battery ... JLM Le 30/10/2020 à 06:42, eric freedman a écrit :

Hi Jean Luc, What model Amel do you have? Fair Winds, Eric Sm 376 Kimberite

On CottonBay I messured in the past the bow thruster curent : https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main/photo/84720/1?p=Created,,,20,2,0,0 Jean Luc CottonBay

Our SM#160 bow thruster draws about 485 Amps when it is running. The exact power calculation is complicated because the voltage is not steady at 24 volts, but drops quickly, and significantly, under

Agree - but this mainly apply to no normal furl / unfurl under normal circumstances. this must be the reason that in 10 years never had this issue before...

Thanks again Bill (and Matt) - your way seem to be the one as well as your observation re the problem description, the one thing I am very confident about, is that if your way doesn't work and you

The trick I have found is to make sure there is plenty of outhaul tension. It needs to be tightly rolled in and out, always keeping the outhaul as tight as possible. Keeping a really good eye on it

We furled too loosely and jammed once. We got ours loose the same way. Back and forth, tighten the furler, tighten the outhaul, loosen a bit, then repeat... a lot. ~~~⛵️~~~Matt