Thank you Mark, Very impressive Cheers Alan Elyse SM437

I can attest that the mainsail manual furling gearbox's larger, upper lip seal on my Amel54 was 45x58x7 mm OD had a machine shop remove the old bearings and seals and he called me to inform me that

Mark, This isawesome. Thanks!!! With bestregards, Mark Skipper Sailing Vessel- Cream Puff - SM2K - #275 Currentlycruising - Vista Mar, Panama www.creampuff.us

Rob, Pat (Shenanigans) is putting together a dinner Friday downtown at Magnia’s. He will undoubtedly have updates on specifics. Some of us may not still be in town Friday evening, or may be

Thanks for the information, Olivier. Much appreciated! As promised, here is the complete list of parts that I used to overhaul the Manual Mainsail Furler assembly on Super Maramu Cara Hull #440:

Hi from Noumea We made replacements using wet suit material So far worked perfectly across a couple of thousand miles of the pacific John Hayes NGA Waka

ML disconnect relay: product number 7702B, rated 500A. I have one for each of the 2 batteries. The relays draw no current in ON or OFF state. There are wires to set the relay states depending on what

So is there any official place and time we can all meet up?

Thomas, I considering converting this winter to Li batteries, From Ev Powers I got an offer for Winstone cells 24X 130 Ah i.e 390 Ah 24 for 5200 Euro including BMS. My old Victron 24/70/3000 combined

I think the key is to design the system effectively to avoid battery killing events: 1) Overvoltage 2) Undervoltage 3) Overtemperature You probably noticed that the subtext of my long post was mostly

Thomas, Thanks for the reply! Regarding your ML disconnect relay, which model are you using? For their disconnect relays, I only see 120amp

Absolutely right Mark. Sorry I wasnt clear enough. Talking at cross purposes they call it. Regards Danny

Hi Bob, facinating memories. It would have been 2009. As to bow thruster. On 299 there is open access from the bow thruster to the bilge beside the forward head. Any leak accumulates there. However I

Tom, You are not alone in your trepidation as to when to pull the trigger on LiFePO4. I am right there with you. I have read the posts from Scott (Tengah), Paul (Fortuna II), Thomas (Garulfo) and

Hi Arno; I have my own assumptions as to why the 54 does not have a vang but do not know the exact reason why Amel chose not install one. As far as usage, we typically rig a preventer that has lines

Miles, I delivered the entire car assembly to the machine shop, explained how it was supposed to work and they machined a new pin and disk which worked perfectly. (actually I could have several made

Bob, I'm pretty sure Danny is referring to the 60mm x 80mm x 12mm lip seal for the Bowthruster tube, not the one for the Bowthruster propeller. This one: -- Mark McGovern SM #440 Cara Deale, MD

Hi Tom, I can share my experience using the Mastervolt MLI Ultra 24/5000 x4 = 720ah and the range of MV chargers, including MV solar charger and MV management system on board Fortuna for the past 5

Hi Danny, I've wondered about this. How do you spot water in the bow thruster? Bob, KAIMI SM 429 Flashback: Years ago (12?) our Santorin we were anchored near Ocean Pearl outside the Annapolis boat

I've read with great interest the insightful posts of the group on this topic. Like most Amelians, I envision L'ORIENT (SM2K 422) with a lithium battery system in the future. But when ? This space