Brian, Your are just a bit too late as everyone is departing this week for points East and South. We keep our SM in the Middle Chesapeake but that's a four hour drive north. The Chesapeake Bay really

Duane, Generally, temp sensors work off of resistance with high resistance when cold and much lower resistance as the medium gets hotter. You can use a cup of room temperature water and boiling water

Bill, Just to clarify, Ultraflex is committing to make one last batch of cables ONLY? What about the rack and pinion gears? From reading posts on steering failures on this forum it seems that the rack

Bill, Understood. Thanks, Mark

Bill, No good deed goes unpunished, indeed! Thanks for continuing to look out for us. I hope this misunderstanding with Thierry and Maud at Amel is cleared up and that this does not deter you from con

Duane, I second Craig's suggestion. Plus, if it fails in less than 50 years Craig will come and personally fix it for you. ;) 3M 5200 is known as "The Devil's Glue" and should really only be used on t

Pat, Gary Silver uploaded a file with an excellent write-up on overhauling the Mizzen Furler called "SM Mizzen Furling Gearbox Overhaul". You can find it in the files section if you search for "SM Miz

There were no good options for purchasing batteries in Le Marin, Martinique when I purchased my boat back in June 2017. Things may have changed since then and others might have some more current advic

Mike, Thankfully, I have not needed to tackle this job yet. However, I did remember seeing a post by Gary Silver posted that had a sketch of his holding tank system. You can find it here: https://amel

Mike, I have what I would call a "European" spec SM so I don't even have a pumpout riser in my holding tank at all. I just have a hole in the deck with a plug. I actually had to make a hose with a pum

As Doug said, it's not close to your desired location but there is a good company that does hull soda-blasting located at our marina Herrington Harbor North located in Deale, MD (~20 miles south of An

Pat, I have the exact amount somewhere but I do remember that it was under $3000. I will check and let you know.

Pat, The cost was $2,861.52. It was done in December 2018. That does not include the cost of haul-out and re-launch. That is just the cost from Osprey to do the soda blasting of the hull. Mark

Pat, I did not have them blast the keel down to bare metal. However, they did have to epoxy coat the keel right after blasting since there were some spots where the iron was already exposed before sod

Scott, First off, thank you for sharing both the details of your LiFePO4 setup and your "real-world" experiences with the system. It's been extremely helpful to me in planning my electrical system upg

Pat, I think the picture that you are looking for is in the Photos section of the forum, not the Files section. Look in the folder called "Bonding System - Bilge Ground Strap" and you will find the pi

Ulrich, If your boat had it installed, the socket for the dive compressor would be in the upper aft of the cockpit locker. Alex from Nikimat has some good photos here: https://nikimat.com/scuba_compre

Ulrich, You are welcome! Alex really did a great job documenting many of the systems on his Amel. To see the complete list go to https://nikimat.com/

There are several threads on this forum on the topic. Here is one with a description of the alignment process after changing out engine mounts: https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main/topic/29770137#

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No problem. All of the old Yahoo messages, files, and photos can still be found here on the new forum. You just have to use the "search" function. Search Messages, Files, and Photos separately using k

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