I have a 1990 Santorin sloop with 2 stainless steel bars on the jib swivel/halyard. Can replace this with a halyard retainer? The weight is significant and i have had breakage issues. Ric

Inside the speakers the cones are deteriorating. They work but the sound is crappy. The port side speaker is now barely audible. Mark SM2k #275 www.creampuff.us

Dear all, Ohhh yeahhh PITU is already on the way after a lot of work in St. Raphael : new motor Nanni 115cv, auto pilot ... Etc etc... We have installed the radio Fusion with Fusion speakers. 3

Hello Mark, When we got our boat it had some awful small shielded speakers.I replaced them with some circular ones which involved enlarging the holes and using plenty of sealant. The first ones that I

Hi Mark. Those speakers are installed as standard equipment by Amel when the boat was built. You can go to any high-end car stereo/car alarm shop for suitable replacements. Be sure to say that you

Mark, after 6 000 nautical miles of offshore sailing, still working pretty good, with the hard dodger hardly any water come close to the speakers. I was looking for replacement in Europe when we

I would think the speakers would need to be made of a water resistant cone? Car speakers have paper cones. Mark SM2K #275 www.creampuff.us

One of the greatest America Yachtsmen has left us. May he RIP. Regards Richard Piller Begin forwarded Regards Richard Piller Cell 603 767 5330 [Non-text portions of this message have been

Marc, we just remove the existing speakers from the housing and went around to find replacement from auto parts store. Those speaker have standard size. Good shopping! Jean-Pierre, Amel Santorin

Does anyone know of a replacement speaker that will replace the 4 1/4" square cockpit speakers. I think these maybe Amel originals (not sure). I would like this to be an easy project. I was hoping to

Thanks Bob, sorry you had to take such measures. If the aft lifting plate was a couple of mm further out then the car would slide clear. However as you will see in my post to Sangaris, I was lucky

Hi Craig, thanks for the advice. I tried to unscrew the forward block but the bolt that doubles at the main boom preventer attachment was very stiff to undo even after an overnight soaking in

Dear Giovanni,   We had similar situations with solenoid.  Our cure is to regularly exercise the solenoid by depressing the 'black rubber' seal.   Kind regards   Mike   Solitude SM2K 461 To:

Hi to all, at sunset , sailing Water Bligh, Fiji, I had to start my Yanmar to go to anchorage. Nothing…no engine. At the moment I remembered a similar situation when we were sailing Eolie, Italy. It

Hi don't know if this will help. Cleanse it with a good degreaser like brake cleaner then use a high temperature exhaust manifold paint and have at it. That stuff worked well on our race cars that got

Thank you Richard.

While replacing the turbo on Libby (as noted lees than 2 hours on it) the exhaust elbow was removed, inspected and cleaned. Light Carbon deposits were removed with a dremel tool. It was in fair

Hello all, I bought with great satisfaction my Sharki followed by my current Super Maramu to Jean GRALL. Jean knows well our Amel's and provide good opportunities and advice. Here is his website

Hi Trevor, I have read your post several times and I believe I know what your problem is. I had a similar problem in that my Kubota engine would intermittently not crank, either from the galley

I believe that my problem is that Ii motor a lot in very salty warm water.--that is also what yanmar said. with respect to my batteries. i have been turning off the chargers odd during the day and