Steve, Aletes is spending the winter in Florida. Mooring ball in St. Augustine with trips up and down the Florida Atlantic coast and maybe Bahamas. Mike

Hi Steve. Ordered from Euro Marine in Newport, RI 401-849-0060 (very helpful). Their invoice listed it as ANT PARTS Genoa Car “Amel” Euro 232. Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240

Bill, I talked with Antal in Italy directly and they had the exact replacement car with the bales on both ends. It sounded like it was a custom configuration just for Amel, but they had a supply in st

Due to a car failure we are replacing the Antal jib car. To slide the old car off and new car on we had to remove the forward termination block. This was secured by a 3 inch or so eye bolt. Unscrewing

Due to a car failure we are replacing the Antal jib car. To slide the old car off and new car on we had to remove the forward termination block. This was secured by a 3 inch or so eye bolt. It came ou

Hi Pat. We're taking Aletes to St. Augustine as our base for this winter. Municipal marina mooring ball $252/mo. Aletes SM #240 Mike Ondra

Thank you all for your various inputs. For the “rest of the story”. Ultimately penetrating oil, double nutting and a rather long extension on the wrench handle facilitated removal of the bolt/stud. Th

Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2016 8:13 PM To: amelyachtowners@... Subject: RE: [Amel Yacht Owners] Windlass bolt to deck Hello Mike, Personally I would keep it as it is, just add grease, ne

Just about complete with the reinstallation of the windlass. Question on the last bolt that finishes into the glassed in plate at the hawse pipe. To avoid future difficulty extracting and to be assure

The part about a “good and pure life” is a problem. I will soak the hell out of it and put a pipe wrench on the stud to see if that breaks the bolt free. If it shears off I’ll drill it out. Thanks for

WOW! That is quite the extraction set! Just what people with old boats need. Mike

So that explains why the hawse pipe is also showing rust. Thanks. This bolt must have been leaking seawater for quite some time. Mike

So I can agree that the cleanest final solution is likely to drill out the bolt and then drill through the fiberglass so that a bolt can be completely through with washer/nut on the end in the bow loc

Thanks for the technical info. This Morse cable is 17 years old, with maybe 3500 hrs. Are their failure modes for the cable itself? Or maintenance (oiling)? Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240 Rock Hall, MD

Thanks guys. This came up at the end of the day and i only quickly took a look at the transmission end. The cable was well secured. I suspected, as Bill Kinney points out, that there would be adjustme

Historically we have found that when shifting to forward the transmission barely engages before the throttle advances the RPM. Yesterday the transmission did not engage without manually pushing the tr

As others may have experienced with removing the windlass from the deck, 3 of the 4 bolts were easily removed. The aft starboard bolt is threaded into the deck (no visible nut and probably into a glas

Does anyone have a source for replacement genoa car for SM2000? Or parts? Antal 40x8. Made in Italy. Cannot find our configuration with beckets/bales both fore and aft on the car. Mike Ondra Aletes SM

Most LED lights I have been seeing lately are rated at 10-30v. This was confirmed by an LED vendor. Hopefully that is becoming the manufacturing standard and would allow the range of voltages found on

Hi Pat, So what is the bilge ground strap connected to? I suppose the iron keel? Should we be looking at the continuity between the keel and the zincs? Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240 Rock Hall, MD