The main reason I decided to change the boat for an Amel 54 was the bowthruster. It is a source of problems the only good thing is that you can repair it easily without spare parts from Amel. But

Jluc, you are right. It's design is far from satisfactory. The bow thruster on my first SM shed propellers 6 times in 27 months, and due to an oversight in design, it actually sank my boat when the

Hi Pat have you ck'd the tightness of the terminals at the wire ends Ck the distance from the sensor to the knob on the drum it should be less then 10 mm 3/8" Is the winch switch

I installed a new sensor, I discarded the brown wire and connected the blue and black wires as per instructions . I still only register 00 on the gauge. I checked the voltage at the sensor and found

The bearing are corroded it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to make the bow thruster tight and more or less sea water pollute the oil This AMEL bow thruster is a technical sum of non sens, approximations and

Gianni: As per our several discussions via private email, the bearing in the base of the motor that supports the spline shaft is an NSK 6204VV bearing. Evidently the 6204 bearing size is very common

Hi Bill and Gary, sorry I don't understand : among the photos " Bow thruster service" I see a ball bearing rusty brown, it seems broken or it is only very dirty ? Gianni

Hi Gary, i have seen your and BEBE photos about bow thruster service. I'm now in Colon Panama waiting to cross westbound and I have the ball bearing broken as you had. I'm waiting an answer from Amel

I will be taking the mast off the boat soon to rerig. At first I assumed I would disconnect the power supply at the outhaul and the furler motors. Looking at it today, it looks to make more sense to

Bob, On my Santorin I replaced all the hose with rigid PVC piping and used flexible rubber couplings to the thruhull, toilet, tank & Y-valve to handle vibration & any movement. It works great, was

Spend the extra money on the black wire reinforced sanitation hose. I'm off the boat at the moment so I can't tell you the brand name but it's far superior to the white stuff passed off as sanitation

Paul, You don't say "how" it is broken - ours "broke" in that the nylon gear was spinning freely about the inner drive disk (there are fine spline grooves that make these turn together). The gear was

I found the same thing. Replaced with Jabsco. Can send you pics of installation if you'd like. Kent SM243 KRISTY Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel

Paul, Same problem...no solution, but maybe some help. I posted information in the Bilge and Bilge Pump Album in the photos section of the website that may help:

You might contact Sig.Fortunato Calabro, feitpompe at libero.it, tel.nr.+39 11 988 4327. He sold me a new nylon ring for about Euro 35 two years ago. Good luck, Hans Tijssen "Tishuit" SM

The same thing happenned to me few years ago. (Oct. 2006) I could get from Reya (technique@...) a drawing of Marina ZZ Pump, and ordered the nylon part with the number I found on this

We replaced ours with a 24 v maserator pump that run at appox 10 gal a min. Much higher then the la France and by far less run time. It also takes up less space I used a hose adaptor on the out let

Hi Paul, Same thing happened to us after 8 years. Couldn't find a spare part and had to buy a new motor from AMF. Really expensive..... It is a wonderful pump, but next time we will go Jabsco.

Our Bilge Pump gearing has broken and we are wondering if there any info on replacement parts or is there a factory rep in the US or Caribbean. The part that is broken is the nylon ring off the motor

The length of the backstay with or without the triatic as with all SSB antennas has to do with the wave length(s) you are using. The longer the wave the long wire/antenna. Yes, the turner also works