Hi Paul, that's a bit new to throw away. Car position, halyard tension and leach cord are significant adjustments for performance as I am sure you know but if the sail is poorly shaped or of too

Many thanks to you all, - btw this is a great Forum! Yes Bill, your right re noice, my plan is to put the Hydraulic Pump into the Engine Room. Rgds. Ruedi Wasabi A54 Von meinem iPad gesendet

Good day to all, We are also replacing the old rubrail on Simpatico. We realized that the original rubrail was installed with one inch aluminum fluted nails. Can anyone shed some light on how to

Rick, I can't say I have any magic tricks for Amel communications. We write to Maude Touillet at sav@... We try to be polite, and patient, understanding that parts for boats produced two decades ago

Hi Bill I frequently see in your posts that you contact Amel for parts I don’t seem to have much luck contacting them from Nova Scotia Any advice? We have a Maramu and experienced the same rudder

Hi Seckin, Mark is right be gentle with it. The wind sensor assembly is about $1200USD. I broke the threads on mine but was able to repair it. The previoys owner told me to take it done and flush

When I was looking at this project, I found this video on "how-to": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQGljkV2MG0 My Italian isn't good enough to follow along with the spoken part, but just watching

Thanks alot for the answers… I will try it. If possible, I will take pictures, and publish it here.

Be very careful when removing the old bearing. It is VERY easyto break the fitting causing you to buy the entire arm. Use lots of penetratingoil. It is best not to do this at the top of the mast,

Dear Seckin, You obviously need a new bearing part nr: 213-10-038. Price about 130 $. Best regards, Martin AMEL 54, Nr. 149 CHIARA currently Antigua Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 16.04.2018 um 14:51

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Dear All; Our SM wind speed indicator in not working. The direction is working but the indicator in the top of the mast is locked and is barely can be moved by hand. Our boat is year 1992 hull

Hi Eric, Welcome. Am about to sail from Bahamas to USVI so will be brief, I also have an early SM #37 built in 1989 sold as a 1990. Would love to compare notes next week. Good luck with your

Danny! My "old" Genoa is less than 2 years so it still has a few miles left. but I agree with you that a poor 150% can give less performance than a good 100%, have experienced that a few times on

Steve, When you get the new nut from Amel, I would take it to a machine shop with a photo of mine. Make sure you measure the maximum length of the wrench that is needed. If the machine shop takes

Thanks all for the replies. I found that the previous owner left me a slip nut tool and wouldn’t you know it, it was tightened to exactly the width I needed for the packing but. I was only able to

FYI; Amel sells the tool at a very reasonable cost. We had a custom one made in Turkey for about 100 euros and also bought one from Amel as a backup for less. I don't remember exactly how

Surprised by packing on a rudder shaft???? That's... surprising! It's certainly not an unusual situation, LOTS of boats have it. Mixing up imperial and metric sizes are good for lots, and lots of

We also had a bit of water come in during our first sailing season, up in Canada. We hoped to get back to Fort Lauderdale in December and have our regular Amel specialist have a look at it. But the