Dear Amelians Anyone know what's up with Q-sails. I ordered a set of sails 3-4 months ago; I made the full payment including shipping and I am 45 days past the deadline not having any concrete

JB, I have the same mounting system as Danny. You can buy them direct from the Swedish manufacturer NOA and they are available in the States but you will have to search around to find a retailer.

I lived this through for the last 4 years. Don’t do it. I can provide a lot of reasons, but first is to make yourself totally reliant on a generator for propulsion... or a network cable takes down

HI jB, i got the panels and everything else in the same place at the same time. Island Water World Sint Maarten. they carried everything custom made to mount them. In 2009 so they have stood the test

---------- Original Message ---------- From: Danny and Yvonne SIMMS <simms@...> To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Date: 06 September 2021 at 11:14 Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Solar panels

Hi Pierre. See photos attached. You will see the wires are surface mounted entering under the lid of the big cockpit locker. I did it that way because I thought the rail mounting would be temporary.

Danny, this is super cool and so well made. Where did you get the hardware to build the mounts, the sliders? Aluminum or SS? This is exactly what I was looking for. -- John Bernard "JB" Duler San

Hi Pierre. See photos attached. You will see the wires are surface mounted entering under the lid of the big cockpit locker. I did it that way because I thought the rail mounting would be temporary.

Alex, That sounds like money not well spent. In my case I had checked my engine many times with two different inferred guns and had temps well over 200 F., especially at higher rpms. Pat SM

Brent – you make some very valid points - Andrew

In 2015 I spent a fortune ($8000) to solve a false overheating…. Cleaned intercooler, rebuilt injectors, gage calibrated, etc. At the end, it was simply the wire from the engine to the gage

Jose, I had taken out and cleaned my heat exchanger several times trying to solve an overheating issue. I decided to buy two new rubber end caps for the heat exchanger from parts4engines . I actuall

Dear Daniel, I think making the engine room watertight is a very complex undertaking. Perhaps sealing the bulkhead between the aft cabin and the engineroom might be possible. And probably the most

Daniel, I forgot to add that every time things got very bad for me (storms and big waves) I have become seasick. I am just practical. Keep in mind that when seasick: you become weaker, don't have the

You've had some fun on the high seas! Thank you so much for the reply and concern regarding the rather ominous task of making an Amel Mango engine room, watertight. You wrote: If the engine or the

Pat, Can you be more specific about the sleeve, or lack of, that caused the overheating of your Volvo TMD22? Ipanema has persistent overheating at high RPM after cleaning with BB both heat exchangers

I’m sorry but I really don’t get the fascination with installing electric motors on cruising sailboats. Your 40KW motor is 53 HP which is about half the power that your boat came with (assuming

That’s an interesting figure – I have been exploring the concept of an Oceanvolt drive for the supermaramu with an 18KW DC generator to provide range only dependent on the diesel tank size. A 40KW

Daniel Alexander, Our Meltem does not have a watertight engine room. It just wasn't designed that way and I am OK with that. Same with the watertight bulkheads. We just have two bulkheads at the bow

I had Maine yacht center install 1200ah of lithionics batteries with 1200w of solbian solar, 300a api alternator and 2 x 3kw victron inverter chargers. 90k usd with about half that being labor. Billy