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SSB Ground
Joerg Esdorn
On my boat, I have the Amel provided SSB installation with the whip antenna and 2 dynaplates on the skeg as ground. I've participated in the MedNet a bit over the last couple of years and have noticed that I often can hear boats yet they cannot hear me or can hear only a weak signal. More often then not, my transmission seems to come in weak. I have spoken to a number of SSB experts in the last couple of years and made some modifications to the installation which have been somewhat successful. I still think that I my SSB creates a weaker signal than most others. I've now spoken to another expert here on the US West Coast who suggests to increase the amount of ground the boat has by connecting more metal inside the boat to the ground system. I'm thinking of connecting the fuel tank to the SSB ground, for example. The connection would be by 7 cm wide copper tape - so it's not an easy thing to do as the fuel tank and the Antenna tuner are separated by a watertight bulkhead. Has anyone done this or done something else that has helped?
Many thanks for any advice! Cheers Joerg Joerg Esdorn A55 #53, Kincsem
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Re: Steyr motor turbocharger complete
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Hi Mike, I wont be on the boat for a few days but next time out I will check. I just bought the product at an auto supply shop. I was strongly warned by a Volvo agent (who could not help wit the problem) not to spray it into the turbo but that is not difficult as the waste gate shaft is external. However what the product does is remove wax like build up that occurs over time in petrol carburetors and I cant see that harming a turbo. However I keep it out in case. Because it was so spectacularly successful in freeing my waste gate I would suspect we are dealing with a similar build up. It is the only product I have found that works. Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl
On 30 January 2020 at 15:26 "Mike Longcor (SV Trilogy)" <svtrilogy53@...> wrote:
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Re: Amel's suggestion to run the Volvo D3-110 (A54) daily while on passage
Danny and Yvonne SIMMS
Merci for this Olivier, I hope Amel have stocks of them because I suspect there may be a run on them. Kind Regards Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl
On 30 January 2020 at 16:22 "Beaute Olivier via Groups.Io" <atlanticyachtsurvey@...> wrote:
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Re: Amel's suggestion to run the Volvo D3-110 (A54) daily while on passage
Mike Longcor (SV Trilogy)
Thank you so much! This makes a lot of sense now... quite a bit different than what I was picturing.
I believe I have a 4" (101.6mm) hose fitted on the hull. Does anyone know the bigger diameter of the Amel flap box (yellow arrow in Olivier's photo)? I think this will do wonders in keeping the ocean out. Many thanks, Mike Longcor SV Trilogy - SM23 Opua, NZ
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Re: New companionway lock source
David Wallace
Keep checking around. I had two copies made at a little locksmith stall on the street in Loreto, Baja Sur, Mexico, so you never know...
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On Jan 29, 2020, at 4:15 PM, Arlo <svplanb@...> wrote:
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Re: Amel's suggestion to run the Volvo D3-110 (A54) daily while on passage
Beaute Olivier
Hello Mike, your SM 23 did not have the rubber flap mounted on a stainless steel cylinder box. This system came later probably around hull 100. If your system has not been modified since original, your exhaust through hull system is just a GRP tube bonded to the hull, where the exhaust hose is glued into with silicone filler. The rubber flap system has been installed on SMs (since hull 100) and on AMEL 54, 55, 64, 50 and 60 (not Santorins). The plastic mufflers have been installed on SMs with Yanmar engines, all the Perkins and Volvo engines have (originally) stainless steel mufflers. Mike, if you want to install the rubber flap system, you need to make sure the GRP through hull tube is the same diameter as the bigger diameter of the stainless steel cylinder. Hope the attached picture will help and show those who have never seen this part (although they have it). Olivier
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Re: Steyr motor turbocharger complete
Mike Longcor (SV Trilogy)
Hi Danny,
Do you know who manufactures and/or supplies the carbo clean product you use? I've found quite a variety online. Thanks, Mike SV Trilogy - SM23 Opua, NZ
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Re: Super Maramu Main Mast Furling foil Sheered
John Clark
Hi Karen, Excellent write up. I did s similar repair on Annie (SM37) and agree 100% to use a reinforcing tube for the bolt. I wound up using JB-Weld in a similar fashion to regular epoxy as you suggested but did not fill the foil with it. The key as you said is to distribute the load to avoid point sources of stress. Annie's foil is original and has 3 circumnavigations....but also attentive previous owners so there was only play between the foil and the coupling before I got to fix it. I do question the epoxy mix you used....I tried it and as you suggested I thickened it with mayonnaise.....but it got very lumpy and not well organized....so I figured I over added the mayonnaise and thus thinning was in order so I added some peanut butter... I don't know what kind of epoxy you used but I could never get mine to work with the mayonnaise and peanut butter. FYI about a year later I, the bad owner, in a moment of carelessness tried to furl the mainsail with a pretty solid breeze and the coupling failed before the foil. We were downwinding into a channel lines with rock jetties and had a series of turns coming up so I decided to switch to motor and didn't think about the point of sail and wind....and snapped the coupling. (Amel Martinique had a new one in a week for us) The repaired foil was perfectly fine. I wonder if Amel engineered the coupling as the sacrificial point of failure? Important consideration if one were to have one made locally as I was... Regards, John SV Annie SM 37 Brunswick GA....hoping to soon be in the USVI ;)
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:52 PM Karen Smith via Groups.Io <karenharmonie=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: New companionway lock source
Arlo
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 04:48 PM, Nicolas Klene wrote:
HI Arlo Thanks Nick!
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Re: Deck Repairs to Amel Mango
We have a mango, hull # 46 from 1985 and the same cracks... i plan to use a dremmel and open it up a little, then do a standard gelcoat repair with west epoxy fairing compound and paint with awlgrip primer and paint and and see how they do....I personally love the teak deck look so I dont plan to remove it. I have seen Davids mango hull number 44, I believe where the PO removed the teak look and it came out looking great...so that is always a backup plan for us...
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Re: Amel's suggestion to run the Volvo D3-110 (A54) daily while on passage
Mike Longcor (SV Trilogy)
Thanks Joel, Bill, and everyone who has offered ideas on this topic. It's all been very helpful as I work toward a solution. I'll be taking a close look inside the injection elbow, stainless muffler, and the cylinder shaped exhaust box near the thru hull. The rubber flap is still somewhat of a mystery... if replacement is recommended, is there a recommended part source (Amel?) and procedure? I'm not so much worried about accessing it but securing it properly. Is one edge of the rubber flap fixed to the inside surface of the box right where the smaller hose comes in? Held in place with just some adhesive/sealant or something more? Or does the flap have a rigid border/frame to it that gets bonded somewhere in the middle of the exhaust box? My rubber flap is not only long gone but that whole cylinder box and reducing coupling is non-original for my boat. I don't want to re-do it the wrong way.
Any advice for getting back to the Amel standard regarding this anti-return flap is still welcomed. Danny - I think your way of accessing it makes sense. Definitely not the easiest place to access in the engine room (or the hardest!). Also probably best done while dry unless you're floating in a swimming pool. Regards, Mike SV Trilogy - SM23 Opua, NZ
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Re: Deck Repairs to Amel Mango
Kaplan,Andre
Charles
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I have a 1988 Mango and I would be very interested in your experience with resurfacing the deck. Any info you have would be appreciated
BR
Andre Kaplan
kaplan@...
Renaissance 2000
Mango 71 88
On Nov 12, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Charles Bell via Groups.Io <shipbldr2000@...> wrote:
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Re: Main outhaul SN
Gary Silver
Hi Bernd:
The Delrin "spacer/mounting" blocks are locally fabricated and/or "sort of" available from Amel. When I ordered a couple of sets from Amel to replaced my cracked ones, they arrived but I quickly realized, that on my boat SM #335 at least, that the top and bottom spacer/mounting blocks are NOT identical. They are mirror images of each other (as noted by ligning up the mounting bolt holes in the gearbox and the "flats" where they attach to the mast. I couldn't seem to make Amel realize the predicament and their error even with detailed labeled photos. SAV insisted they only had the one piece, all identical, and not mirror images (i.e. a top and a bottom part) so as to match the mounting holes. I solved my problem by drilling new mounting holes to match the holes in the gearbox housing. A modification I made, while I was at it, was to mill a drain channel in the bottom surface of the top spacer/mounting block so that water, that accumulated in the top of the gearbox in the reservoir created by fitting the spacer/mounting block, could drain rather than puddle. All the best, Gary S. Silver s/v Liahona Amel SM 2000 # 335 Puerto Del Rey Marina, Puerto Rico
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Re: Masthead Tri Colour LOPOLIGHT A54
Morning Martin,
Will be back in PHX next week – pls send me your Email address to teun@...
Best Regards Teun SV AMELIT A54 #128
On the hard in COOMERA (near BRISBANE) QLD AUSTRALIA January 29, 2020 09:43:03
USA cell: +1 832 477 8842 AUSTRALIA cell: +61 5951 8909
You can follow AMELIT via this link: https://forecast.predictwind.com/tracking/display/AMELIT
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io>
On Behalf Of luvkante via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2020 06:24 To: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] Masthead Tri Colour LOPOLIGHT A54
Teun,
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Re: New owners of Amel Super Maramu # 331
amelforme
Congratulations Bill and Joanna on the acquisition of CLOUDSTREET. I was the first owner of this boat and she was then called LORADO, a contraction of my best friends first/given names. I employed it as Amel’s sales demonstration boat for North America and enjoyed sailing it up and down the east coast exhibiting at boat shows. When I sold it to the second owner, it was stuck by lightning a hour after we closed the deal. We went back for a Champagne toast and the masthead tri-color was laying on the trunk cabin, smoking. It was repaired perfectly by our Amel trained serviceman Ray Eaton who also had a degree in electrical engineering. The day after it was fully repaired, it got struck by lightning again, while in the very same spot it was the first time. This lays to rest the old saw that lightning never strikes twice… It was repaired again and the folks I sold it to did not appreciate my humor when I tongue in cheek suggested that they name it STRIKE THREE. Somehow the fact that it was hit by lightning became my fault. I stayed in contact with subsequent owners who deeply enjoyed the boat and I was happy to help them with the challenges that boat ownership entails. Hope you got to interact directly with Joe and Tracey whom I also sold it to and enjoyed my relationship with them a great deal . They are good people and the kind of folks you would like to buy a boat from, for certain. Not to worry about the lightning as the boat was put right as good as new with no structural damage at all and never a related problem. If you enjoy it as much as everyone else has, you are in for a great adventure. Good luck and All the Best, Joel
JOEL F. POTTER-CRUISING YACHT SPECIALIST~L.L.C. THE EXPERIENCED AMEL GUY UNSURPASSED AMEL MARKETING EXPERIENCE AND PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE Office 954-462-5869 Cell 954-812-2485
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> On Behalf Of william reynolds
We have recently bought Cloudstreet, a 2001 SM 2000.
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Re: Amel's suggestion to run the Volvo D3-110 (A54) daily while on passage
amelforme
All early Super Maramu had metal mufflers, don’t recall the cut off when they switched to plastic. Olivier, do you know when the change was made? Jacques Carteau explained the reason for the change as noise/vibration abatement as the plastic mufflers would ‘pant’/flex and eliminate some noise/vibration where the metal ones wouldn’t. He noted that they wouldn’t corrode either. He didn’t appreciate my saying that they will melt if you lose the raw water pump.
If you still have a metal muffler, it’s a good idea to inspect the interior and especially the bottom on a regular basis, at least annually. When they fail it makes an awful mess of the engine compartment.
JOEL F. POTTER-CRUISING YACHT SPECIALIST~L.L.C. THE EXPERIENCED AMEL GUY UNSURPASSED AMEL MARKETING EXPERIENCE AND PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE Office 954-462-5869 Cell 954-812-2485
From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> On Behalf Of CW Bill Rouse
Mike,
You wrote: Hi Bill - do you mean that last section of exhaust looks modified/non-Amel or just generally speaking? The answers to your questions are yes & yes.
See the attached as it may help you. Your SM, when new, probably had the plastic Vetus water muffler, not a stainless steel muffler. I assume there are previous owner modifications.
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:45 PM CW Bill Rouse via Groups.Io <brouse=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: A54 engine anti siphon vent
amelforme
Over the decades with Amel, I sometimes sat in on part of the week long schooling each new Amel owner received as well as the somewhat shorter training I got on the three new ones I owned. The Amel guys always said to listen for the anti-siphon
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"Clear it's throat" on start up and then " Mind it's manners" all the rest of the time. A clever and catchy way to remember this important item. JOEL F. POTTER CRUISING YACHT SPECIALIST LLC THE EXPERIENCED AMEL GUY Office 954-462-5869
On Jan 29, 2020, at 6:45 AM, Porter McRoberts via Groups.Io <portermcroberts@...> wrote:
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Re: A54 engine anti siphon vent
Porter McRoberts
Very important and astute observation. We do the same. Luckily we have little ladies who get paid for a weekly clean out of the salt water system. Also, first time I started the engine with Bill Rouse on board he reflexively pointed me to that siphon to look and listen to the stream in the starboard cockpit drain. Just yet another reason I’m so thankful we did the Amel school.
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 8:01 PM, Sv Garulfo <svgarulfo@...> wrote:
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Re: A54 engine anti siphon vent
Randall Walker
I have that very sound and yes it is annoying. Looking to do a flush. This is the kind of tips we Amel owners need more of. Thank you. Randall A-54#56
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:01 AM Sv Garulfo <svgarulfo@...> wrote:
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Re: Main outhaul SN
Herbert Lackner
We had it made buy a machine shop in Turkey, I think they used Lexan. maybe less than 50 Euro
SN120, herbert
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