Our microwave went black yesterday in the middle of warming up some frozen food. It was quite warm inside and now doesn’t show any sign of life. Any suggestions? joerg esdorn A55 #53 Kincsem on passag

Another try on the photo. ´

Thanks very much, Bill. I‘ve pretty much followed the instructions regarding bleeding air from the manual but only one of my three chiller units has a valve to bleed air. I’ve bled air from both the s

After 2 years, I am trying to get the Climma working again. Both the saltwater and the circulation pump started up fine but I needed to fill up the circulation cycle a little bit to get to the require

Another vote for sturgeon. I hadn’t heard about the long term bad effects but I’ve never had a crew who took it get seasick or have side effects. I have recently had a case of a crew member who didn’t

I use an iPhone app called Anchor Alarm. It shows the boat on Google or Satellite map and permits me to draw a zone within which the boat can move without the alarm sounding. It works great. I believe

Billy, from recollection it is a DST200. I have not experienced any problems with that transducer (Bill, this is the depth, not the speed transducer). But the man who would know is Stephane Geniteau,

I just received a competitive quote from Topsail but it contains a condition that I need to have a bilge pump capable of 100l/minute. The standard electrical pump on the A55 does 30l/minute only and i

Thanks much, Nick. Joerg

Billy, the receiver is in the aft lazarette, starboard side. If you replace the batteries in the remote, it may need to be re-paired. Good luck. Joerg Esdorn A55 #53 Kincsem on the hard in Vigo, Spain

Freudian error, Alan. I meant to ask Nick this question. I’m thinking to use a macerator pump as is installed in the electrical toilets. Those pump the toilet waste up into the black water tank. So th

Thanks for the post, Alan. Good to be able to think about potential improvements if we cannot sail or even realistically plan sailing soon. I am considering installing something similar on my A55 but

The A55 comes standard with a remote for the mizzen since it is difficult to see the sail from the wheel if the hardtop is fully extended. I’m not at the boat but I believe it is a Telecontrol t serie

Stefan, I have 169 m2 on the A55. I hope that helps. joerg

Billy, I asked exactly that question of Amel and they told me that there is no impact for the 55. Cheers Joerg Joerg Esdorn A55 #37 Kincsem On the hard in Vigo, Spain

Billy, I’ve never used it but during the Amel training, I was told it comes on at 70% state of charge. One issue is that it will always run the generator for 2 hours once it is triggered. Shutting off

Hi Stuart, 160 V batteries? Sorry to hear you're having problems. My boat came with 6 MV 12/200 gel batteries for the house bank and a MV 90 Ah AGM battery to start the engine and generator. According

Paul, on my A55, Amel installed the Webasto Thermo Pro 90. It warms up the boat nicely and quickly. Given that your boat has less internal volume, I would think the 9 KW is enough. The heat exchangers

An interesting tidbit from the manual for my MV batteries. One of the „events“ causing an alarm on the Masterbus system is that the batteries HAVE NOT been fully charged for a period - default 31 days

It has been a surprise to me how much seaweed and other dirt accumulates in the heat exchanger for the gear box even though there is a strainer at the intake point. Amel recommends that the heat excha