First I would like to introduce myself, Jean, and my husband Al who have recently engaged our retirement plan. The usual stuff, sell the house, sell the boat, and give most everything else to the

Stephan, I found it at a company called Mister Art. I had one of the locals in St Martin re-paint the deck. He charged me $360- for 3 days. . It looks great with the new black paint. Fair

Eric, If you haven't found the web site, try: www.antiqueboat.com The Striper is found by going to the tab for the boat store and searching for "striper". By the way, the striper is now shown

Mark, My wife, two kids and I spent about a year (2004 to 2005) at the Tauranga Bridge Marina, Tauranga, NZ, aboard our SM2000, "Delos". Our friends, Chuck, Tab and Family were also there in

Hello all, one other part of this is to grease the bushing/bearing that allows the shaft of rotate That is more then likely the source of the noise. I noticed that when I took mine apart the bushing

Richard, Roy, & Eric: Thanks for your responses related to servicing the outhaul gearbox and drive. I am beginning to get a picture in my mind of the process and structure of the assembly. I will

Gary, just a couple of observations from my experiences with the outhaul gearbox. Last year, it started making lots of noise, so I tried several remedies: penetrating oil, disassembly, etc. I was

_____ Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:39 PM To: amelyachtowners@... Subject: FW: [Amel Yacht Owners] Servicing The Outhaul Gearbox & Bearings Hi, I do not recall the thread size.

Graham, Last month I took delivery of a set on new sails from Voiles Gateff in Toulon, France. The sails do not have battens, but the improved boat performance is remarkable. The sails are

Eric, your memory is correct. The biggest problem we had is that the bolt in the top of the winch was stripped and had to be tapped again. As there is no load in the "up-down tenision" direction

Thanks for the clarification Eric. I have updated and posted a third picture to the photo folder related to Outhaul Service. If I understand correctly, the bolt depicted on the bottom of the gearbox

Hi, Let me explain and redefine some of my previous comments. The vertical shaft that turns the Anderson outhaul winch is what I refer to as the motor shaft. If I remember correctly it is welded to

Hi, Let me explain and redefine some of my previous comments. The vertical shaft that turns the Anderson outhaul winch is what I refer to as the motor shaft. If I remember correctly it is welded to

We have also had the out haul motor fail due to a brush welding itself to the housing. We could find no 24 volt brushes so we have ordered a new motor from a shop here in NH. Once we install and

Eric on Kimberlite wrote: "It is easy to remove the vertical shaft from the outhaul. 1 Remove the screw from the arm that goes into the Anderson winch on the boom outhaul line. 2 Remove the nut and

Hi, The blue seas voltmeter and frequency meter is shown on kimberlites photos. Also a photo of my muffler meltdown. I had a muffler shop make me a metal one, but I still installed the Borel high

Thanks Ann and John, this is my thinking too, Michael #345 --- Anne & John Hollamby

Reason for exhaust temp sensor: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/amelyachtowners/photos/view/21f0?b=1 Gary

The Blue Sea Multimeter: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/amelyachtowners/photos/view/c79f?b=18 The Electronic Salinity

Frank Newton Boat # 321 RE: Electronics suggestions: I would recommend installing a bilge pump run-on-alarm (alarms if the bilge pump runs for more than a programmed time limit, I use two