That sounds good. We’re about to head in now. See you soon.

It would be great to see you at 2.

So it sounds like you will not be joining us for the maintenance discussions at 2:00 on Aletes? Depending on how that goes we may not get to Davis’ til 5:30ish.

Great. You have transport from Weems Creek?

I checked with Davis’ Pub (Eastport) for Thursday evening. They do not take reservations but said they are not too busy between 5:00 and 6:00 so seating for 10 or so should not be a problem. Let’s sho

Bill, Sorry to miss you. Looking forward to the next opportunity to get together. Mike

For the maintenance/repairs “forum” (sounds way too formal) I have RSVP’s so far from Jay Pokorski and Charles (SV Saturn). We’ll meet on Aletes (anchored at the mouth of Back Creek…unless weather pus

Thank you Denis, Gary, and Germain for your insights. Much appreciated. Mike Ondra Aletes SM#240 Chesapeake Bay

Aletes would like to host an Amel maintenance/repair forum on board either Thurs or Friday afternoon of Boat Show week. The idea would be to share everyone’s experiences with some of the unique equipm

Rob, Pat (Shenanigans) is putting together a dinner Friday downtown at Magnia’s. He will undoubtedly have updates on specifics. Some of us may not still be in town Friday evening, or may be interested

Hi Bill, On our vessels we have several locations where there are lip seals in the horizontal position in exposed areas like what Mark found and the furling gearboxes. If the seal is slightly below th

Some have fitted the outhaul gearbox with grease fittings. How has that worked out? We have been trying to seal the top shaft with RTV where water lays to try to mitigate water intrusion and rust. Oth

Hi Dan. I see you are SM#116 and looking at Bonfiglioli gearbox. We are Hull #240 with Leroy Somer MVA M33 gearbox but the reduction ratio should hold true depending on motor speed. Ours is 1:60 paire

Sounds good, Pat. Magnia Friday night and you had put 6:30 on the table. Seems a number of us will be on Back Creek so let’s see if there is interest in dinner at Davis’ on Thursday evening. Mike Alet

Hi Pat. Tom and I hope to be there Thursday and Friday. A nice dinner place on Back Creek would be Davis’s Pub which a block from Mears Marina. May avoid some of the downtown hubbub. Rustic, good food

We did the Aquasignal 34 series for vessels under 50 meters. Fit nicely on the back plate, even the holes lined up with the those left behind by the old Aquasignal incandescent fixture. Mike Ondra Ale

Mark, indeed there were some scratches on the plastic shaft. Will gently sand them out, measure, and go with the 29mm seal. Thanks for the insight! Seems like a Amel mini-rendezvous may be happening a

We just replaced the prop shaft seal with the 29mm lip seal. Aletes was on the hard and the bow thruster was dipping oil the next day. Thinking we may have damaged the lip seal during installation, we

Here’s another twist on bow thruster service. We services ours yesterday, on the hard, so no extra complications from doing it in the water. Last service less than a year ago was in the water, and we

I got chased out of the Academy Anchorage area by the Dockmaster a few weeks ago. Apparently theiy are discouraging anchoring right off the bulkhead. Wound up anchoring at Back Creek where there’s opp