Nick, The Bow thruster Propellor, Delrin (looks like nylon) Hub may be cut through by stainless steel pin. It is likely that either you or someone before you damaged the hub by reversing the propellor

Hi Nick, Replacing the prop in water is an easy task; best done by a diver. If you have the Amel spare, it came with a new hub. Remove the old hub by unscrewing the nylon bolts. Note the shear is

Thank you john, i'll look for the replacement kit on board or order it after double checking if the prop is still there... Is the replacement procedure documented in the boat manual (with part needed

Tom have you considered having it cut into small parts and taken out they do it all the time in houses where the tank was installed in the basement before the house went up. Just a thought look into

Tom, In my case, I found that the only problem areas of my tank were in the welded areas of the front of the tank. The rest of the tank (and especially the bottom which was a relief) was

Hi Nicole, Sounds like you lost the prop. Same thing happened to me in St Thomas while turning 180 degrees in a tight marina. If you have the bow thruster kit and calm water you can remove the

Hello everybody Today was my first sea trial to ferry SM471 to it's new home , and before exiting the rather large and peaceful port of "Le Frioul", I thought I would be a good idea to pratice a few

Tom, I recently pulled the fuel tank on my 83 maramu. I had an unknown leak at the forward end of it that had rotted a small section of the companionway bulkhead just to the left (starboard) of the

Hello Group This is Thomas Deasy S/Y Aphrodite 1983 Maramu #125 I have a leak in my fuel tank and I will be replacing it !! Any information on taking the old one out and replacing with a new one

Hi Paul, We have been turned onto iSailor by other cruisers who use it. Idownloaded the app and charts. It really works well. One of the very appealingfeatures is you “rent” the charts rather

INavX is quite good. It’s just missing Active Captain inputs, which would make it perfect! ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

Yes I have both and both are useful BUT I don’t seem to be able to get tidal streams [current and direction] live time on I Navx. I have ‘Aye tides” but this only gives depths and not tidal

I love iNavX infinitely better than my chart plotter Courtney Trippin 54#101

Hi, The problem with Navionics is all charts are stored in the internal storage of the tablet. It is not possible to put the charts on extra sd-cards. As I have C-map on Furuno Navnet and Maxsea , the

Hi Paul, John and I attended the Navigation Apps seminar at the Annapolis Boat Show last week. The speaker’s (a former US Coast Guard captain) top recommendation was iNavX. He based this on

Previous boat didn’t have a chart plotter. We used OpenCPN with a waterproof, daylight readable tablet at the helm, connected via WiFi to the hardwired pc at the nav station. The NMEA bus, AIS,

Boating app from Navionics, Navionics chart on both plotters, OpenCPN WITH Google Earth charts and Ovitalmap for the shoal, bommy infested areas. GL Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, SM 007, Fiji

They are also very bad for French aircraft. Don’t feel left out :-) Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, SM 007, Fiji

We also Navionics via subscription service. Ian & Margaret S/V Loca Lola II SM153 US East Coast

Hi Mark, Did you ever get the earlier SM manual? We have #110 and a manual would be very handy. Thanks Mark -- Mark & Nicky Barter S/V Nunky SM 110