Hi Brent et al, We have a lot of new members of this group and new owners and wannabe owners so I am going to share some of my experiences sailing Ocean Pearl. SM 299 First up, they are not slow and

Hi Marty, Sounds like the notorious "Amel stern squat" may be causing water to pool in the aft portion of the vent compartment - often exacerbated by "stuff" on the stern (arch, davits, outboard in

FWIW, my Victron batteries (Smart lifepo4 12.8v) documentation explicitly states "Do not interconnect the midpoints". See drawing on bottom of page1. FYI the gray lines are the data cables for the

Hi Bill, That’s very useful to know. Just one thing that occurred to me, do you have any cable specs for this arrangement? Presumably I would replace the Amel installed six +ive & -ive cables

Jamie, The drawing is correct, and generates 24 volts. A full explanation is here: https://fetchinketch.net/boat_thoughts/battery-connections/(opens in a new tab) The common connection across the

Bill - sorry should have done that when I sent it. All three photos are of the inside of the exhaust cavity looking inboard from the exhaust hole towards the wall of the cavity parallel to the cockpit

Marty, Thanks for posting. Can you give a description for each of these 3 photos? I randomly assigned numbers to them 1-3 below.

Hello all, We are relatively new owners of our SM. This community has been a fantastic resource and was one of the reasons we decided to purchase an Amel. (There is great comfort in numbers and even

How to wire the battery bank can certainly be debated and the "expert" Nigel Calder will tell you the Henri Amel method is wrong. Others will try to convince you of this also. But, I have been on the

Hi David, The output is a square wave: 6,25 Hz per Knot boat speed so please measure in Hz. The AGC pin is marked on the board, measure DC with respect to the ground

Bill, can you elaborate on your setup. The way you show the drawing it appears as if you actually have 36 volts per "leg" vs 24 volts. I may be misunderstanding the drawing, but I doubt that is the

Hi Eric, Foolproof method is just to run aground and then set your offset :-) FWIW, I set mine to 2'. Now whenever I run aground it reads exactly 6.5' - spot on. -- Cheers, Craig, SN68 Sangaris, at

Hi Bill, That’s interesting. Our Amel came with them as 6 pairs comprising 2 batteries in series, then all 6 in parallel. I guess there are pros and cons for each method. Cheers, Paul

Thanks for the advice Stefan. Yes I did check there was power going to the unit. I also checked the output to the H2000 and saw 150mV. But, darn it I didn't know to check the AGC voltage, I'll do that

Thanks Bill , I had the Amel website story , however your second link is tremendous , just the sort of info I was looking for , Many Thanks

Hi Lior Sorry for the late reply and thanks a lot for the tip. Best regards Ruedi Von meinem iPad gesendet

We have purchased a new to us boat. So we are selling our Amel Santorin. In process of getting all the specs and repairs and improvments over the last 8 years with the bulk of them in the last few

Just to be clear, the "threaded inserts" are usually known in the trade as "rivnuts" I keep a selection of them onboard, they are very handy in a lot of situations. There are fancy tools to install

Eric, Can't tell you exactly what it is, but I can tell you what I used to tell my students to do every time they got on a new boat: Drop a weight on a line next to the boat at the dock. Measure the

added a new depth tranducer and wanted to make sure the depth offset is correct. Anyone know the tranducer offset in the santorin.