AHA! Got it, thanks! Kent

Drew, When you say the "spare halyard" are you referring to the ballonner halyard? If so, that is specified by Amel as 10 mm diameter, 39 m length, polyester double braid. Bill Kinney SM160,

Thanks, Steve. Kent

Further to my email regarding Island Pearl II being for sale I would like to thank all those of you who have offered us encouragement and advice on motion sickness prevention, and also offer a sincere

Dear Owen, We own Sharki 104 since 2008 and love sailing her (Charmed II). Since we live in Holland sailing on the North Sea, Channel, Brittany coast andere Dutch sweet water lakes. We sailed her in

From a maintenance point of view the sealed bearings and replacing the gear oil with grease sounds interesting. Given that both the seals and the more viscous grease will increase the friction I am

The Santorin has a shorter halliard running through a block just below the mizzen spreaders. The attachment flange is part of the mizzen mast. I suspect this may have been to raise/support the

Hi Alan Looks like I jumped the gun a bit. We've now sailed into Maumere on Flores Island and despite another rolly 3 day passage, Lauren was amazingly just fine, not sick at all... and so we will

Thanks Bill, as my nav software displays VMG, I will play around with apparent wind angles and VMG. I think we have the car in similar position. Regards Ian On

Bill you are absolutely right. I checked the Amel diagram and the spring on the outer seal should face the prop and the springs on the other two seals should face into the transmission box.

Hello Paul, you could but as you will be taking the thruster out, why not do the simple job of replacing the bearings with new sealed ones? They are not expensive. All you need is a

Ian I have decided to desist the temptation of ruining the ballooner! I don't have space to carry an extra sail that I would rarely use. Anyway, I can tell just from the look on my Linda's patient

Hi Bill, I can answer that one. We do the same with the outboard on the rail but outboard of the rail not inboard, so it only has to clear the attachment clamps, not the whole outboard

On last trip up the mast, noticed some breaks in spare halyard cover; time to replace. Does anyone have the size, length and type of line. I'm in the US for a few weeks and want to get the

Danny, Am I following you right? Your lifting line does not go up to the spreaders? How do you lift the boom high enough to get the outboard over the rail? Bill Kinney SM160, Harmonie Bar Harbor,

Hi Bill, They do require emergency water. I satisfy that with eight 5 litre plastic bottles stowed under the galley floor. And they are reasonable in my experience. If its a shonky boat and or a

Danny, Thanks for that! There were a few more things when I was perusing the Cat 1 requirements (things like at least two independent freshwater tanks) but it sounds like the inspectors have enough

Hi Kent, there is a t cleat on the mizzen mast at about boom height. we attach a block to that and run the line over that and down to the main sheet winch and is what you call a fair lead I think.

Hi all, There was a query a few days back about the NZ cat one departure surveys for off shore yachts and how Amel yachts fared in this inspection. I have been having trouble connecting with the

Hi Kent, Yes on my boat (380) there is a block exactly where you say from which I can run the lift out to the cheek block on the mizzen boom. I just used it this afternoon to swing my Tohatsu off