Hi Paul, We have not used grease in the bowthruster, but we changed the lip seal to 29x42x7 from the original 30x42x7 which is what Amel have recommended. This change has prevented any leaking whilst

I'm serviceing/ repairing my bowrhruster. Remember a post a few years ago some one used grease instead of oil. Anyone have any experience using grease instead of oil? pros and cons? I notice that oil

Dear Ameliens, friends of the oceans, wherever you are, I hope you are in good health! On our 54 "Soleil Bleu" the rubber sleeves at the bottom of the joysticks for the bow thruster and port side

Amel Gang, We have an Ultra 35kgs on ours. NEVER dragged in 4 years of living largely on anchor. Very pleased Jean-Pierre Germain, Eleuthera, SM007, Opua, NZ

Bill, The only time I would be worried about having a very heavy anchor is if I need to leave an anchorage in a hurry and have to bring it up by hand because the windlass malfunctioned. The 35 kg

Hello, Victron recommends that you put T fuses on each battery line in series as you have done. I planned to put in 400 A as you did. Security essential it seems to me. I bought 6x12,8v batteries and

Doug, I don't know enough about it to opine as to whether it's a good idea but if it doesn't have any negative effects, better safe than sorry. Let us know what you decide to do. I have a 450amp

Hello everybody! Does anyone here know the history, owners (also former ones), technical condition or pretty much anything relevant about Amel Santorin „OYANA” (N 89)? Thanks in advance for your

Hi Antonio, Thanks for the feedback. If you can post a photo of the location of the flux gate that would be appreciated. Not sure that position is any more central then my current location behind

Great feedback Scott, Dominique and Dean. I feel like I am in a “masterclass”. I was thinking of the Sterling APD, in the same way you use fuses for the batteries. It is unlikely that the 450

Scott, My REC BMS has its own shunt, which allows it to monitor Ah in/out (Coulomb count), this information is provided from my BMS to the Cerbo by CAN Bus and is used by the DVCC assistant as well

Hi Dominique, Scott does have a good solution. Regarding the Cyrix disconnect, I'm not convinced you will see that problem in real use. It is very unusual for a lead acid battery (gel, agm or flooded)

Doug/all, That Cerbo GX is pretty powerful! I just skimmed the manual and it certainly provides a lot of cool features. If I was building a system from scratch, I would possibly consider adding it,

Hello Dean, Before having read the attractive solution proposed by Scott, I considered, as proposed by Victron, to keep two lead batteries (in series to have 24v) connected in parallel to the

Thank you Scott, You have found a good solution, thank you for sharing it. Dominique

I recently purchased them through an Amazon site, Wateranywhere, and they arrived quickly and were very affordably priced. As Bill R says, they are Dow Filmtec, so I am not sure how they would suffer

:-). Eleuthera is the name of my boat. It means « free » in Greek... apparently... See my signature block... Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, Opua New Zealand.

Thank you for the information Bill Rouse. Benjamin

Thx Jean-Pierre, I guess I need to find water ASAP. I see you are in Eleuthera, must of missed each other, as I was last week and now in George Town, Bahamas. Thx again, Benjamin

SM 387 CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht