Hi all, Would someone have any experience in removing the clothes washer from its mounting in the Amel 54? Cheers, Paul Ya Fohi - Amel 54 #98

Nick Thank you. Particularly good intel from the website re the prop. Thank you! I’m gonna send this thing in for a full service. I need to reduce variables in the equation for sure! Appreciated.

Dean thanks brother for the email. I don’t think Volvo will budge until I’ve removed all doubt in their minds that It could not be the drive train. That I tell about the fixed prop is perfect

Bill As always I really appreciate your thoughts on this. I think it is the computer or sensors too. Also we were getting 2600 rpm before that long block exchange (with poor compression). So today

Hi all proud Amel owners, A month ago I renewed the Frigoboat compressor for one of the boxes in the saloon. The AV35F was installed. Shortly after this I noticed a failure of the evaporator. The

Hi Danny. Thank you very much for your insightful thoughts they are really appreciated. Since I never really completely trust my hull speed indicator as it seems to wander a bit I rely on SOG:

Hi Mark, I was wondering why you bought the flat plate evaporator 200F from Frigoboat in stead of the 380F. The info from the German distributer of Frigoboat is telling that the 200F is for freezing

I borrowed a tool from the boatyard to pull the prop and it worked great. I'm not sure if this is the right size or not but it's only $35.20!

Bill is correct, I was referring to the priming pump. I was mistaken in calling it the "low pressure lift/priming pump". I'm not sure from my notes now if Mac Boring was referring to the priming

Porter, Our WOT with the original Amel FIXED prop was just under 3000rpm when we sea-trialled the boat with Olivier last August. I agree with Bill’s logic, I think you need to lean on Volvo to

Hi Duane (and Bill), Yes, I am thinking it is the manual priming pump and not really the low pressure pump. When I saw the comment about Mac Boring recommending changing the low pressure on the

Clean the inside pump walls well when changing the impeller...use sand paper.and make sure the inside wall is smooth. Also, change the impeller every 200-225 hours...you will not lose a blade unless

When the engine is stopped and the spring whose compression you adjust with that bolt on the end has pushed the piston all the way such that the brake pads are gripping the disc, there's very little

Be careful with ordering replacement pads....they're not all the same. I sent Maud pictures of ours and she sent back pictures of what she had and none of them were like ours. A brake shop, is

Ok, So Onan’s spec C (and later) uses the 132-0459 pump (G702 in Sherwood’s taxonomy). It can be found for less than 300$. Based on the diagrams, the impeller for the newer pump is much bigger. I

To porter. The differing sog is often current. Your boat speed log is speed through the water. Sog is pver the ground. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean PearlOn 30 August 2018 at 16:26 "Porter McRoberts

Thank you Eric and Bill. Will service the brake cylinder on return to Revelation later next month. Additional question: Is there a need to bleed the system? I noticed that there's a large "set

Maud has replacement pads. That's the easiest solution to worn pads. If you need them quickly, many "old-time" brake shops resurface the pads. We had ours fixed in Tangir-20Euro's. We estimated

Yes, Onan 132-0459 Raw Water Pump (Replaces 132-0358) and was the raw water pump on most of the Onans installed in SMs and 54s, including the 11kw Onan. The pump is made by Sherwood Pumps...their

Porter, If you can easily spin the prop in neutral with the shaft brake OFF, the C-drive isn't adding friction. I think that you have two remaining possibilities: The brand new transmission is