Hi Orion, When we owned Pure Magic (433) we sailed her from Ireland to Antarctica and back. We had an eberspacher heater fitted from new and apart from it breaking down for one 24 hour period (due to

Hi Nick, Thanks for your observations. I fully agree the insulation of especially the freezer is the main problem. As Oliver suggested in previous postings, changing the insulation with a better one

Hi Scott, The main feeder cable to the 24 volt panel is coming from the busbar-stud that sits on the wall that separates the battery compartment from the compartment that contains the main power

Hi Orion, We spent a couple of seasons in the Beagle channel and know of at least two SMs that went to the Antarctic peninsula. One owner boasted of cruising down there sitting in the cockpit with

Hi Scott, Mohammad et al, I puchased Amelia in the West indies and sailed her to Greece. So have both tropical and temperate climate experience regarding the fridge system. We have the same three

All, As mentioned in my long post about my lithium installation, I'm still trying to figure out a way to install a load disconnect solenoid that will be controlled by the Battery Management System

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Hello everyone, Just a quick question to see if anyone has had experience sailing higher latitudes, even as far as the Antarctic peninsula? I recall seeing a photo of an Amel Super Maramu in Svalbard,

That sounds like a great addition to anyone's Amel !

Hello Nick. Thanks. Maybe you or Karen will recognize the key.

Great! Thank you Bill. Hopefully we make the contract for SM 351 shortly. All the best Stefan Stefan Deerberg CEO Deerberg GmbH Unternehmer/ Entrepreneur Lilienthalstraße 1 21335

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Hello! I‘m a new member and my wife and me are just buying our SM from 2002. We want to learn about installing a diesel heating system but I can just read the first question of the chat but not the

Hi Scott; We’re currently in the Med, so we’re on board full time for about 5 months every year. The fridges are obviously on all the time. We typically run two of the fridges and do not

Mohammad, Do you live aboard full-time? Arno and I do and our experiences are similar. In tropical heat and 2 fridges and a freezer running, at any given time, it's very likely one of the compressors

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Hi Arno; We have never had any issues with these pumps. We are still on the original pump after 11 years and have the backup if the original dies. Given the variant in life span and longevity that

Hi Scott, Great to hear I’m not the only one that has trouble with these pumps. I asked Flojet about this and they simply do not carry a brushless variant of this pump. I did have a look at a few

Agree, seems quite a few of us are on the same pages on this KISS Cheers Alan Elyse SM 437

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