Thanks again James. Very helpful information. When we bought BeBe last year, I inspected the underside wood above the chain locker and was satisfied with the condition. Bill said all he did was keep

Willem, I will not be on Aletes for a week or two to verify the Vetus name on the mounts. I do know that these replacement mounts have worked well for two years since replacement. Mike Ondra ALETES

Willem. I too had heard this. But after deeper research felt comfortable with these particular mounts. unfortunately I do not recall exactly the research process I went through. The mounts are

Agree on everyone's comments about the brushes. I am sure this is (widely?) known by many of us but in a sailing situation we have always--100%--had luck--both on our Santorin and our SM--with

Hi Willem, All this is ringing a bell in my head. There have been discussions about this in the past. I believe (69 year old brain) that the Vetus mounts seem undersized because they are measured as

Peter, "Unscrew conventional way", You mean like a jar (black against white) or pop it out once the screws on the white covers are off? Thanks

Hi Mike, I just contacted Vetus in the Netherlands and they told me that they specify those hydro mounts for max 60 kg weight each and for a maximum of 35 hp engines. They developed the engine

Thanks Mike for the information. I noticed this engine mount from Vetus earlier on the web, but I thought (and I also read it somewhere) that these mounts are for 2 and 3 cylinder and lighter

The black end caps unscrew the conventional way. Peter Peter Forbes Carango Amel. 54#035

Hello Thanks all for your input. We are onto removing the furler motor. Before we disconnect the electrics, any tips on how to remove the black end caps. Thank you Fair winds Thomas Garulfo

Thomas, If you try to switch the motor on, does the battery monitor shows a current- ampere consumption rising ? We had the rusted bearing in the gearbox 3 years ago and changed to a sealed SKF

well said Bill, BUT that's exactly what we have on our SMs....the anchor windlass, the genoa furler etc have the breakers at the "other end" of the cables that run from the house bank...and...on the

Gary, You wrote: "all three of them combined are less than one amp when idle" That load can add up in a real hurry... One amp times 24 hours.... Wow! That would add almost 25% to the entire

Craig, I think you (and Amel in the "old days") are simply missing the point of circuit breakers. They are most certainly NOT there to protect the anchor washdown pump, or the thruster motor, or any

My bow lockers are notoriously damp, not sure how water is getting in. I really don't think any chemical will help if you get a hole in the sealing layer, what ever it is. If yours is still solid, I

Pat, The system that we have has some advantages. It reduces length of big gauge wires. On our system multiple users feed from one heave gauge bus. I agree that new system is more convenient, and

I'd always thought Amel was ahead of the curve with its Distributed Electrical System. That seems to be the direction the industry is going, now with solid state circuit breakers controlled through

Hi Steve, Many thanks. That's really useful as it does show a washer on the lower jaw. I think when Pen Azen was rerigged a few months back and they took both masts ashore the riggers must have

Not sure if these are original or not, but this is how 380 looks today All the best, Steve Morrison SM 380 TouRai Brunswick, Ga

Hi All, When it rained here in Greece ( first for a month) I noticed a black stain running from the bottom of the mizzen goose neck fitting. I took it off the boom. ( I also took the opportunity to