I don't want to rain on anyone's party, but...... Elyse sat stern down before the solar arch was put on.....I don't think I've ever seen an SM that floated on it's lines, they are all stern down,

Olivier of the Amel 54 Vela Nautica did a great series of two videos doing pretty much the same thing a few years ago. He reported similar results. Here is the link to the first one

Interesting Bill ! We struggled with the original freezer when we first bought Elyse...it just didn't really work well. I guess we were spoilt on our previous boat which had an engine driven

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This past year, I got totally frustrated with our OEM under settee freezer. It was so poorly insulated that food thawed if it was against the wall of the box. It consumed huge amounts of power. It

Our Main and Genoa were both made by Island Planet Sails with Pro Radial cloth at a 50% savings over Hydranet. We have been VERY happy with them. We have 3 years on the main, and 2 on the genoa. If

These are the dimensions of the design mock-up. The production model should match. This size was required to get all of the things included that were requested.

We have found that the number of insurance underwriters is (slowly!) growing again after so many beat a hasty retreat from the market after the disaster that was the 2019 hurricane season in the

Bill, I can confirm Christian's comments that the plastic manifold as supplied by SOFOMARIN is significantly bulkier than the original copper manifold from Amel. It requires both more horizontal

Christian, The SOFOMARIN Secondary Saltwater Manifold was designed to replace a SM2k manifold as originally made by Amel. Its design should be exactly the same as Amel made and what is shown in the

Hello Bill Thanks for info below My manifold from sofomarin arrived and I took to our boat last weekend. It is a lot larger than what is in there now, and Bill Kinney and I looked and it is not an

Saltwater Primary and Secondary Manifolds for SM & 54: As many of you know Amel changed from copper saltwater manifolds to Polypropylene (PP) during the production of the A55 and is currently using

Hi all, I purchased the packing gland wrench through Maud at Amel for 46.00 euros minus VAT and shipping about 2 yrs ago. Best Dave Liesse SN006

Hello Davis, Mike et al, Amel provided one which works perfectly. I assume someone asked them if they still have those available. AS for the design, if still needed, I’ll loan mine to Mike or

Hi David, I wouldn’t bother going down the plastic breadboard design as I tried it and it broke with only a small amount of force. I ended up using it as a template and had a steel wrench fabricated

Hi Richard, As I recall, when I talked about the distance from the fluid to the mating surface, I was referring to the mating surface of the gearbox rather than the dipstick. Also, don't forget that

Well put Olivier.

Thank you Olivier. A timely reminder. Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl

Thanks, Craig! We opened it today Roman and Ira Morozov SM2000 #320 Ginger

Jose, thank you for pointing that out. We definitely will follow your advice. Roman and Ira Morozov SM2000 #320 Ginger