After almost 20 years the wheel on Kimberlite was looking sad. In addition, the silver metal inserts caused galvanic corrosion and that exacerbated the ugliness of the wheel. Having to tie down the

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Right, the interior of that “amel dorade” is coated with a black paint like material. I never gave it much thought. Glad to be alerted to a sensitive spot.

Amel Super Maramu #160 Harmonie is in Annapolis, Maryland and having an "open boat" next Saturday October 16th 4-8 pm, and you are invited! We love meeting current, past and future Amelians! If you,

John - the ply is the bulkhead. Only an issue if there is water ingress. Flexseal or similar might work. On our boat there is a black coating that is beginning to wear off that may have been a similar

On Annie SM37 we have not experienced water pooling up in that space, nor do I see exposed plywood. Would a flexible rubberized paint be a good preventative? Think “flexseal” as a continuous

Craig - sound advice, thanks. We will add that to our preventative measures. Still can't see any good reason to have an opening like that in the first place without a vent cover. In our testing it was

Without midpoint voltage monitoring, connecting the mid points is not recommended as it will mask a battery problem. From Victron (BMV manual): "Midpoints should not be interconnected: one bad battery

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