A few years ago I was sailing N in the Gulf Stream in 20kts from astern. In the middle of the night with no warning (it was a moonless night with no lightning observed) we were suddenly in 35+ kts

Here is a snippet from my book. Pole ends were made by FranceSpar, now www.SpaceCraft.fr, also in the US www.sparcraft-us.com. I am not sure if that company made the entire system for Amel. Amel

Rascal is all electric galley wise. I have a ceramic hob(not induction) with electric oven and an separate convection oven. All 230v . Battery bank is 600AmpH of Lithium (battleborn, and I have a

Hi Folks, This message concerns me. It comes after Delos reported on a near disaster while sailing downwind in gale force winds. As in this case they had the headsail poled out. Both vessels had bad

Hey Amelians, We had an accidental gybe while sailing downwind at night in 30 knot winds and as you can imagine the outcome wasn’t pretty... I’ve emailed Amel a couple days ago but haven’t

Hello Justin, No I don't use an electric stove. 1) I like to use gas, 2) I probably will buy a portable induction stove top in the future for redundancy. If the electric goes down for some reason,

Brent, Though it's not likely for one cell to go bad, if it happened I should be able to open the battery and replace the cell. Ken Powers

Danny, the Setup on the SN is a different than the SM. No disk brake, but the big pulley for the shaft alternator. I had to realign the engine to get rid of the vibrations and found no other way than

Thanks Ken! You’re inspiring confidence in me! Are you running an electric stove?

That's pretty spectacular Ken... imagine if you bought that third battery you have space for - 900 Amps is a LOT of juice. These Lithium batteries are going to change the way we all cruise. I like

Hello Justin, It's now 8:51AM here in Thailand, and I just finished the capacity test. I left the Aircon running until 8:20AM, that's 19 hours 20 minutes pulling 32 to 35 Amps. These batteries are 1

Eric - yes indeed, thanks - sent you a pm in reply. Craig -- SN68 Sangaris, Tropic Isle Harbor, FL

Have you tried a small compressed air powered impact hammer?

I would also pound on it with a heavy mallet and use plenty of PB Blaster.

Ruedi, I don’t know the configuration of the 54 but on the 53 you cannot remove the bolt without cutting it – therefore you cannot put a bolt back in. Possibly the 54 is different. Fair

I’m so excited to see this… I take delivery of my new Amell 50 in a week and a half and it has 800 amp hours of 24 V lithium with 1200 watts of solar. I think the main difference is that we also

Hi Herbert and others, Just remember that everything you do to the shaft coming out of the C drive you are doing to the C drive. The shaft goes through a lip seal to a bearing to bevel gears. Every

Hello All, I have uploaded a video, and think it has a lot of useful information. Just got back to Aquarius, had to do the 10 day quarantine to get back into Thailand, but the Thai Government jjust

Hi Eric Thanks a lot for your information. I’m currently working on it by pushing with your concept and at the same time pulling with a puller on the other side. But still very tough job. I

Sorry the word is DISK