Our forestay furling worked good and silent until today. But today it makes a strange noise, seems to me that it comes out of the gearbox and sounds as the bearings are not ok and metal scratches on m

Hi Peter On the SN that is for the shaft alternator, the key is for switching it on and off, Green Light indicates charging, Red Light no charging. The key is used to prevent turning it on when the en

Hello to all, again I need some support from the group during the removal of the old antifouling and gelshield layers the complete hull of KALI MERA has been sanded and checked. We found out that the

Thank you very much, Olivier! Br, Herbert, KALI-MERA, SN120 Von: amelyachtowners@... [mailto:amelyachtowners@...] Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 15:06 An: amelyachtowners@y

Danny, The electrolytic process that creates a current flow between two metals needs an acid-fluid (or saltwater) between the two metals, than the less noble metal “dissolves”. If there is no acid the

Hi Alexandre, You wrote you replaced the two voltage stabilizers? If so then the switch for the tricolor is used to connect the battery + to the voltage stabilizer. The voltage stabilizer should have

Thanks Olivier, Is this the same for the Santorin ketch? Should the masts there also be “few cms backward” in the harbor? We will change our rigging in April with ACMO hardware, so would be good to kn

Hi Bill and Richard, thanks for your answers, I know that the rudder hole is necessary :-) What I am not sure is how to repair the laminate at the skeg. If you look at the foto (does the link below wo

dear group, inspecting the rudder we found out that the laminate on the rudder skeg has lost connection on one side to the steel part that holds the rudder. the laminate there can put away with a scre

Hi Alexandre, The regulator is a quite simple thing: It has 3 attachment points: Voltage in (Pin 1) – in your boat 24V, Battery +, this comes from the switch Ground (Housing): Battery – Voltage out (P

Alexandre, I used these - L7812CT Will create stable 12V output with input of max. 35V. You could these as a replacement, because the ones you have are not available anymore. Herbert KALI MERA, SN120

Alexandre, I forgot to mention that our Santorin has a 12V system, so I do not need the stabilizers anymore, but on the SM2K maybe you have a 24V system, so maybe you need them to create the 12V your

Hi Alexandre, These are (adjustable) voltage-stabilizers, they make sure that you have exact the voltage you want to have (I assume 12V) even if the voltage changes (eg. when you use the bow thruster…

Hi Jean-Pierre, we plan to leave the canaries also in November 2015, but eventually sail via the cape verdes Herbert KALI MERA, SN 120 Von: amelyachtowners@... [mailto:amelyachtowners@yaho

Hi Joel, moisture measurement has been done, I got the fotos and uploaded them to https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amelyachtowners/photos/albums/1059967243 The boat is now out of the water for two

Thanks Joel, I will wait for a week, organize a moisture measurement and share the results then, herbert Von: amelyachtowners@... [mailto:amelyachtowners@...] Gesendet: Diensta

Hi Joel, I hope that you are reading this and maybe have an answer (according to Bill you may be the only one who knows J ) We are now removing all the old antifouling and would like to know if the Sa

Hi Ian Did you find the copper ground strap? The connection to the ground-wires is behind the foam, the strap starts under the foam and goes down to the bottom of the bilge. Ours is broken down in the

one more question to all successfull keel rust removers ;-) how is the work done below the c-drive, there is only space of ~ 1cm between the drive cover and the keel and the keel is quite rusty there,

Enio Do you have fotos of your keel damage? How does the corrosion on the keel look like? Herbert KALI MERA SN120 Von Samsung Mobile gesendet -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "rossienio@