Thanks guys. I may upgrade the stern panels as well but I am concerned about windage, waves and esthetics. So for me, I will never have enough solar to run the entire boat at anchor. At sea, I

Adam - Interesting idea from Vladimir - worth popping the motor off the gearbox to see if it works both ways by itself.

It can be mechanical problem in the worm gear mechanism. It happened on my boat. The bearing on one side of the worm failed and was jamming one direction of rotation. Vladimir SM345 Sonsev52@...

Thank you Ian,Bill and Danny for the very helpful responses. I have checked the "in" solenoid, pressed the button on the bottom, and there is 24 V coming through (measured by multimeter so no load).

Try tapping the motor with a soft mallet or something similar. It worked for me until I tidied the brushes up. I still need to order some new ones at the end of the season, but removing the brushes

Thanks Scott for both images, it looked good and strong for sure and a reasonable price Kind Regards Paul

Thank you for the image, I like the simplistic lines and would expect it to be adequate given the strength through the davits A drone landing pad is very handy too Thanks Paul

Hi Gary. That's the crazy part. The turbo was OEM! Ian & Margaret S/V Loca Lola II SM153 US East Coast

Just curious re: your stainless chain- is it very obvious that it needs to be replaced? Ours is 12 years old and looks generally fine, but I've also had pristine looking stainless snap on me. --

Greetings All, I developed a leak on the low pressure product water side of the watermaker membrane. It appears to be coming from the gray attachment piece fit directly into the end cap. I tried to

Another photo. Note the vertical near the stern light. Initially the boatyard continued the diagonal near the upper right of the photo all the way to the stern. As should be obvious, that interferes

Dean - Great idea with using it as a drone landing pad! Paul - my arch is not low visual impact, but I am pretty confident it can handle anything we throw at it. See attached - please ignore the

Wow that was a comprehensive answer. Thanks Arno. Not sure yet what I will do as I am in the UK for another couple of weeks before gong back to the boat. Nick Amelia AML54-019

Paul, i mounted three panels on Stella using a SS structure integrated to the Davits. Very happy with the low visual impact and functionality. The panels also make a great drone landing pad! Pic

Yes, the grey ones are the thermal sensor. The idea is to put it in the 24 Volt feed line of the switch that operates the furler so when it becomes too hot the furler will cease operation untill it

I also have a Waelder chain and for the last two years it has shown no issues around the Med, but I was anchored in Villefranche for a couple of weeks last month and noticed that it had some stains

I bought the best available Waelder chain 1,5 years ago. Up here at the U.S. east coast she stays nice but in the Caribbean it instantly showed surface rust. Didn't like to see that and was constantly

My 2005 built 54 runs with the original Antal 120 X 18 genoa sheet blocks from the same year. What are the recommondations of this group regarding aging blocks replacements? The blocks still run fine,

Hi Scott, thank you for the information, it would be great assistance if you could send some photos, I like your idea of combining the arch with the davits, it would maintain the SWL of the davit

I had a similarly favorable experience with them. Although it was just for a spare starter motor that has yet to be installed. Still, fast service and good pricing vs. oem. Gary W. SM209,