Pat & Dave Similiar to Bill we ditched our Globalstar. We use the Iridium. Text messages are free. We buy 500 minutes per year at 1.50 per minute. These can be rolled over if a further 500 minutes is

When we were in Australia in 2012. We purchased 8 standard 12V batteries from Batteries Direct (info@...). The pricing seemed good; they were able to provide batteries from the USA (the Australian

Pat, I gave away our GlobalStar equipment because the satellites were too unreliable. Spot is GlobalStar. So that leaves Iridium or local cell and/or local wifi. It has been 6 years since we have

We will be heading to the Caribbean next fall and my wife will want to text our daughters almost daily and speak to them every week or so. I thought I would seek advice from the group as to what is

Herbert 'Ocean Hobo' has a holding tank in each head. They are take up the whole space below the towel rails alongside the sink and cover some of the cave lockers (although you can still just get a

Hi Scott, I have just serviced my auto prop. I have the TMD 22 Volvo. There has been some discussion about the size of props on the 100 hp and the 78 hp boats. The brunton auto prop H 6 comes in a

Hi, I had same problem with yanmar 100 motoring between Tonga and NZ. On yanmar i pushed down the upper pump on engine filter and rpm grew up again, so the problem was the dirty main filter. I

Danny, I have often wondered about setting my boat up like that, but always thought after doing the calculations that I wouldn't get enough amps at 24volts (220-240 amps) for daily

I found the brand I was looking for and available in Wynumm. I have not purchased any yet, I will look at it further when I return. They are RITAR RA12-120SD and is a AGM Deep cycle battery with 10

We Have 12 6 volt golf cart type wet cell batteries coonected in three banks of four to give 24 volts. Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl Mangonui New zealand

C'mon mate, give this a miss, try another way of testing will you! Barry, TW3

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How come you need 12, I can only fit 8 plus the engine battery. Up till now I have used Powersonic 12volt 110amp AGM batteries, available from their store in Yatla south Brisbane. There are other

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Thanks No need to reply. Fair winds Eric From:amelyachtowners@... [mailto:amelyachtowners@...] OnBehalf Of Ann-Sofie Svanberg Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:01 PM To:

Bill, The markings on the diode I used to replace the failed one are: "P600M and MIC". I am not an electronics expert but I feel the controller would function OK without them. The circuit board only

Oops, somehow sent that before I was done. The Autoprop folks said that the H6 was the prop they recommended for the SM with the 100HP Yanmar. Amel says they use the same prop on both the 78 HP Volvo

Hi Scott. There are some good threads on this site regarding low RPM with the Volvo TMD22. Search RPM, Volvo. I had the same problem, spent several thousand dollars looking for the cause and

Hi Giovanni, dimensions for the SCS200 are at: http://www.trojanbattery.com/pdf/datasheets/SCS200_Trojan_Data_Sheets.pdf Our SM 378 is the 2003 model and those 12 batteries fit perfectly. The ones in

Hi, You have a couple of possible problems: - are the bearings on the Autoprop been changed since the boat was delivered from Amel? Malfunction from the bearings cause a lot less effective propeller -