Hello Ken and future users of the silicone BT seals, I am truly impressed of the interest of using my design of the silicone seals. I feel I could have started a company :) Perhaps it will help if I e

Dear Fred, These are the characteristics of the seals I ordered from SSP in 2019. It looks like they have increased a little bit the price but not much. I am sure you can find a manufacturar in europe

Hi Fred, Here are the specs for the silicone. I am sure there could be a better material but this is the one I used. https://www.sspseals.com/materials/vinyl-methyl-silicone-rubber

Ken, I am not sure that we have been on the same page. I appreciate that you are trying to describe the process with fool prof detail, but I don’t appreciate the way you have approached me regarding y

Ken, I want to make sure it is clear that this IS NOT my project. More importantly, I have no ego about this and was happy to share my finding with the Amel community. When I found that the silicone s

To avoid the danger of dropping the BT when removing it or when reinstalling it, I have used the following trick. I start with some tension in the line after the BT trunk is in a favorable position. T

I am replacing my life raft with one that can be kept on the railing for easy deployment. My current one is a balize that I am not sure I will be able to deploy in time. I would greatly appreciate any

Thank you Eric, I currently have a Viking 6-persons (to be politically correct) raft and have carried it on the same locker as you with the ditch bag for 10 years. However, It and I are both becoming

Hi Eric, Until about 3 or 4 years ago I used the recommended method that you describe, using not one but two hose clamps to make sure I will not drop the BT into the water, or worse, on the ground as

Bill, Two years ago, I replaced my chargers for Mastervolt 60 amp and 100 amp. According to the specs for the 100 am charger a cable AWG2 is perfectly fine and thus it can be connected to the batterie

The weight of the companionway sliding door on our SM and the method of locking it single-handed had forced my Admiral to quit that job on Ipanema. After evaluating various designs I opted for a simpl

Perhaps my solution for the SM may work for the 54. see my post "Making it easier to open companionway door" Jose Venegas IPANEMA SM 278

Hi Arno, To avoid the weight from sloshing around I used the track that I mentioned to guide the weight along the vertical direction. It is very smooth because it runs in roller bearings. With this, t

Hi Arno, I realize that with your modification, the point at which you can attach the line to the door is further away from the wall than in my case. where I simply attached it to the cross wood and t

One thing to keep in mind is to make sure that any growth or pieces of shells are cleaned away and do not remain inside the sea chest. I did not do that once and they migrated to the engine heat excha

David, you may have something here. I have noticed randomly occurring increases of engine temperature up to 220F when running the engine above 2000 RPM. However the temperature does not seem to drop a

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Pat, Can you be more specific about the sleeve, or lack of, that caused the overheating of your Volvo TMD22? Ipanema has persistent overheating at high RPM after cleaning with BB both heat exchangers

Dear Amelian frieds. I bought 300 ft of docking line for Ipanema. Has anyone thought out the best size to cut the docking lines for our boat?

Bob, This is a good idea. I agree that in the tropics running the generator + water maker+ Bat Chargers can cause create a lot of heat. Increasing the air flow can only help. Also adding and pointing

This was a nice improvement of the seals installation adding the supporting disk. I had that in my list of projects when I first installed them but after 4 years of using them I realized that it was h