Hello fellow Amelians After over a year of solid family use my floors are due a revarnish I’ve found a great product for stripping the old varnish. Completely odourless and non toxic which is great fo

Many thanks Dennis I just took the pin so now will have to press fit the lifting washer in place. Mulgrips will be my friend All the best Miles

I have also taken this approach with a machine shop Interested to know how people approached it as originally if was an interference fit How did you reassemble the disk onto the pin? As a temp measure

Thanks Christian that’s a grey help All the best Miles

Likewise we did not use the seats but the coaming around the cockpit where winches are located All the best Miles

HI there When we dis this on our Maramu we just put a i-Beam across the (padded) cockpit coaming and then used a lifting tackle off that It worked well and was very simple I presume the same would app

Hi there I'm trying to orgainse a haul out in the UK for our 1985 Maramu 46 I believe displacement is 12T but would like to know what total weight might be Has anyone lifted and weighed? I'll be dropp

It does indeed look like there is a small rubber insert in the top rubber track. Many thanks Rainer and Wade for the tip - saved me likely damaging the door by brute force. Yet again - great forum Man

Thanks very much for this folks I’ll hunt the rubber insert when next on board but I’ve not seen it yet. I’ve also failed to spot any section that allows a lift to remove I’ll double check this weeken

Hello The boys managed to do some destructive testing on one of the wooden locker doors. Has anyone managed to take these out before for varnishing or repairs? Picture attached and slightly baffled ab

Thanks Matt 👍 Ok so it looks like a heat gun is the best bet for removal. The boats on a mooring so perhaps best to wait a while till I’ve got shore power for the job. I’ll probably take a floor hatch

Hello there Our cabin sole needs some tlc. Family sailing with young boys onboard means it’s seen some action and I need to revarnish it. In high traffic areas we are down through varnish to bare wood

Hi there Just some thoughts related to reliance on the autopilot. We bought our Maramu to sail short handed, long distance with young kids onboard and this led me to consider our reliance on a single

Hi there Apparently Amel call these stainless sections ‘boomerangs’ for obvious shape based reasons. I had crevice corrosion in all 6 shrouds on the main mast - where they passed through these boomera

Hi James I watched a mechanic undo mine when I had the engine mounts replaced No special tools were used As far as I remember there were a series of bolts around the outer perimeter that connected the

I love mine and have been using it daily across the North Atlantic trip to Azores. Great images from Boston and now Northwood. Very easy to use - just leave it running and check it in the forecast sch

Thanks Nick My voltage across service and start batteries is 14+V when the motor is on so I therefore presume that means the 2 alternators are still working ok and I managed to avoid diode damage 🤞 Ou

Thanks for that Bill I wondered about that so have checked alternator output by simply checking charge voltage at the batteries. That still seems to be a good output voltage and I’m unsure of any furt

Hello A guest on board switched my ignition off whilst motoring. Trying to be helpful. The engine kept running but I only noticed a few mins later when I spotted the instruments were off My Perkins co

Hi Tom What make of sheet cars / turning blocks etc did you use please ? I am struggling to understand which manufactures would work on my Goiot 32mm track, 5mm thick with 10mm diameter locator pin ho