Hi Gerhard As I mentioned this was for a pre-purchase survey so I left the previous owner to arrange the lift out with the normal team that he had used in the past. It was a quick lift out, inspection

Hi all I uploaded a photo of the lift out of our boat before we bought it and it was being surveyed, though it might be helpful. Andrew https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amelyachtowners/photos/album

My recollection – but I not sure about this information and will need to check when I am next at the boat in about 10 days’ time – is that each of the AC units is linked to one of three relays where t

Jean-Pierre Thanks for that information – I just had one of these fitted and did wonder, there are two holes just offset of the middle on ours. I will add some holes at each corner. Andrew Ronpische S

I pinged this post across to Coppercoat for comment (I have always found them very responsive to advice both before and during the application process) – this was the response. “My first point would b

Hi Bill Thanks for that information – it is early days for our Coppercoat experiment. We were advise to either apply directly to the GRP or use one of two Epoxy primers. We decided to apply 4 coats of

We don't have a heater fitted under the gangway steps. Andrew SM472

We have a climma unit (Compact Quattro 9 I think) under the seat on the port side just in front of the galley. Has electric heating element as well as AC. Andrew SM472

Hi Bill and other experienced Amel owners that contribute so much to this site have helped me enormously over the last few years and I hope they will continue to. They add enormous value to this site

I am with Bill on this one. I would say that for 95% or more of my interaction with this forum I use just email – only going to the site to retrieve photos or documents. Even the mobile facebook will

I would miss the ability to click reply from my email client to respond to a post – I don’t believe that you can do that with facebook (although I have never tried with facebook). Andrew Ronpische SM

Ours was 38mm Andrew Ronpische SM472 Canet on Roussillon

We tried to get someone in France to do the "hydro gommage' but we could not find anyone to do a boat as the boat would have to be put in a special part of the yard and surrounded by plastic - their e

I copied this idea from a previous post of Eric's - works very well Andrew SM472 Canet en Roussillon

Hi Gary If the seacock is closed and you left the boat in that state then surely there is no problem for now or am I missing something? I bought part number FTR13201 - Vetus Cover & O-ring for Raw Wat

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Hi Graham One other thought is that in retrospect we did have some intermittent issues with the bow thruster motor just before it finally failed and I had to do some work on the cooper connections to

Hi Graham Is the propeller still there? It is designed to break off at the plastic bolts if it catches something? If the motor is still turning but there is no propulsion this would seem the most like

I have a lot of concerns about anyone trying to develop a new site from scratch – a site which is essentially a content management system so should have a database backend, password protected, differe

Something like http://www.createaforum.com/ can use their domain or our own – provides various options of accepting adverts or paying and having ad free or choosing our own adverts that might gain rev