Mark, The foam dampers are attached to a separate mouse line, NOT to the VHF cable or any other cable. The idea is that when you need to run a new cable up inside the mast, you: 1. Tie a new "plain" m

Mark, In my case, there is no way to attach a new cable to the old cable at the top of the mast. At least not that is apparent to me. The original RG58 Cable seems to be "hardwired" to the Banten AIS

For posterity, here are some close up pictures of the "bowtie" pieces of foam that are inside the mizzen mast. They are pieces of cylindrical foam about 10.5 mm in diameter and 40mm long. They are tie

Peter, The circuit breaker that is tripping is an RCD or Residual Current Device. It trips when it detects a even a minute difference between the current in the (normally) Hot leg and the current in t

For what it's worth, it looks like Amel changed the forestay chainplate design for the Super Maramu. Our forestay chainplate is one solid piece of stainless steel:

Billy, This thread has some great "real world" solar data in it: https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main/topic/32721714 Pay particular attention to the posts by Scott from Tengah (Amel 54) and Porter

Paul, Changing the C-Drive mounts is quite straightforward and pretty much exactly as Craig describes. See the picture below: Remove the nuts circled in Red above from the mounting studs. Then remove

Dan, I had the same issue when I bought Cara. It turned out to be a pinhole leak where the bracket was spot welded to the tank. I had my fabricator fix the leak but another leak popped up right away s

This will not likely have a trickle down effect for marine batteries anytime soon. The key differentiator for Apple is the "monocell" cell design, not the LFP chemistry. It's their way of trying to ma

Chris, I guess you are the SM owner that I met at Bert Jabin's that had his masts down. If you ever need any pics of your masts I have a ton of them. Just ask me. ;)

Does anyone know the correct size shackle to fit the spinnaker halyard bracket on the main mast on the SM? It's the shackle circled in the picture below: Thanks, Mark

Eric, I didn't really see it specified anywhere in the eBay listing but if you scroll through the pictures you will see a schematic showing a 16amp switch. It also looks to be identical to this timer

Eric, It's appears to have a 16amp switch but you never really know with a ~$9 eBay timer. If you are concerned, you could always have the timer control a relay and have the relay control the pump.

Eric, This programmable timer is very similar if not identical to the one that Bill Rouse has posted about using for this purpose: http://www.ebay.com/itm/224040425984 You also need a 24vdc solenoid l

Trey, Congratulations on the purchase and welcome to the Amel cult family! I'm replacing my rigging this winter as well and I am strongly considering taking the masts down to replace it so I have been

Jim, That's because there really is no one definitive list. Although there was a definitive name change to Super Maramu 2000, some of the design changes were made BEFORE the name change and some were

Oops. I replied with the drain plug size/thread pitch. Unfortunately, I don't have any record of the o-ring size.

Ian, I'm 99% sure it's M20 x 2.5 thread pitch.

Phillipe, The bumper is held in place by four (4) M8 bolts that are molded into the bumper. You can see the four mounting holes for the bumper bolts in the picture below: You access the nuts from the

Mike, I would choose the paint. The gearboxes are likely made from cast aluminum which tends to oxidize much faster than extruded aluminum does. It also gets that unsightly white, chalky, aluminum oxi