Hi, The loop does have a bowline in it. I am not on Kimberlite now, I am in NY and she is in Colombia. I would just buy a bunch of line, it will come in handy for other projects. If you look at

Hi Eric, Thanks for your help. Yes the halyard colors blue and yellow as original line. But the loop at the halyard end is not spliced. The loop is made by bowline knot. It looks like it can't go

My SN 24 1990 had 1 group 31 for starting & genset & 1 for house. I changed that to 2 start, 1 genset, and 6 - 2 volt rolls batteries placed in strbd nav berth. This also put the boat on an even keel

Hi, Is the halyard teal colored with a yellow tracer and a bowline on the end? If so there should be another piece of the same line about 3 -4 feet long with a loop on it. You tie the long 3

Joel, Thank you very much. That is very helpful. My boat changed hands 2 times. Most likely original halyard is replaced. Now I have a bowline knot loop at the end of mainsail halyard. Is the method

Hello Mr. Sonsev. When your boat was first delivered, it had onboard a long three strand line that is less than 2cm in diameter. When removing the mainsail, this line was tied to the eye at the end of

I bought Amel-Super-Maramu hull 345 "Life is Good" recently. Mainsail halyard exits from the mast only for about one meter. If I drop mainsail the end will get pool in the mast. This thread

Thanks Don. Ill check them out. Happy 2016 to all! Kent

Blue Sea Systems make a fuse holder and fuses which mount directly on the battery. This is a relatively low cost way of complying with this standard and protecting the larger wiring circuits. We

Does anybody know why the Santorin originally was not equipped with a starter battery? Earlier and later AMEL models were equipped with separate starter and service batteries, but not the Santorin.

Thanks Pat and Diane. Nice to hear from you. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Vladimir, I had a 33kg. on Shenanigans last winter in the Caribbean , anchored every night , never had to set it twice, nor did it drag an inch, also fit the roller well. Diane has tracked you guys

I did not have anyone tell me the center-up rudder, butt to the helm, facing backwards using the joy stick and throttle, but it seemed to me that it was perfectly designed for this and I have used

Mark, I believe the best way to describe sparingly is short bursts, pausing a few seconds between direction change, and not enough to get the motor hot to the touch, unless, of course, there is a

Bill, Please define sparingly. I must have nodded off during that part of our Amel schooling. I use it in short bursts but do not know the limitations of the bow thruster. Happy New Year!

Hi Graham One other thought is that in retrospect we did have some intermittent issues with the bow thruster motor just before it finally failed and I had to do some work on the cooper connections to

Hello Tom, Happy New Year! Thank you for your thoughts… I will do as you suggest. I will get the producers to make the hoses up while I wait… Cheers, Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, Amel Super

Hello Gang, Eric is repeating the exact instructions given to us by Michel Charpentier, the well known Amel broker in Hyères, FR. A good method proven over time. It works a treat and is simple

The ABYC requirement is for a battery bank fuse to be within 7 wire inches of the battery bank. In the real world of boats and battery compartments this is often hard to do. If you can't get within 7"

Just a random thought. Possibly the rudder was not centered when using the bow thruster if it was way off to one side it might fight The bow thruster. When Olivier delivered Kimberlite, he showed