Dennis, Thanks for your input. The previous owner removed the large shaft mounted pulley before I bought my boat which made me wonder why this was done. I am very happy to hear that properly setup up

Rainer, Really sorry to hear about the vibrations and the new oil leak. I am not sure that a failed stern tube bearing would cause the amount of vibration that you are reporting, especially under sail

Miles, We have revarnished the edges of some of the plywood cutouts for the ports/windows on Sueno with the Epifanes varnish and the match looks pretty good to the original varnish. The wood was sunbu

Hello, To those that have used the Amel shaft generator on their straight shaft Maramu or Sharki, do these tend to cause shaft vibration or was there just some problem with Yin Yang? The shaft drive p

Joel, Selling the Loki was a difficult decision for us. This will be our fourth season with the Amel and we are both quite happy with the boat. Thanks to you, the two Bills and the many others that he

My wife and I have restored and refinished wooden boats with lots of varnish over the past 40+ years. We have removed a lot of varnish was applied over epoxy by someone else. If your base coat fails,

The sea anchor option has many benefits, some of which you mentioned but it also has one big potential problem. It is possible under certain conditions to develop significant sternway while riding to

Thomas, IMO the plastic threads on the packing nut are not really strong enough to compress all of the packing until you have a few threads engaged. You might try pressing your new packing into the gr

Clear reinforced hose is what was on my Genoa furler and it may well have been original. (31 years) The surface of the hose had turned brown and crinkly from the UV exposure so it looked nasty but it

Bill Kinney, Thanks, that is exactly the information that I was looking for. I don't mind changing the lip seal when the flocking wears away. The non silicone wax also sounds like a great idea that I

Oliver, Many thanks for the confirmation of the drain holes for the companionway slider box being part of the original construction. When I first got my Amel, I noticed that a small amount of water, p

Hi Craig, We like to keep cans and tools in the normally dry main bilge forward of the companionway slider so even a gallon of saltwater from a leaking companionway slider could do a lot of damage fro

Bill Kinney, You make some very good points. A 22mm hole at a 1' head could flow around 615 GPH if my calculations are correct so there could be conditions where this could allow a lot of water into t

Bill, Great! Sorry for the delayed response, we have been on the move headed South down the Tunisian coast. If you have any problems getting the new varnish to blend in or whatever we are glad to shar

Hi Bill, We have owned a number of classic wooden vessels with lots of exterior varnishwork along with customer boats with even more. Mahogany (especially African and Phillipine) tend to lighten and t

Craig, The tool that I own is the Fluxeon 1800 watt model. You should be able to view it here: https://fluxeon.com/products/ You can use a lot of different types of coils with this type unit, which ca

Mark, I had the same results in my search for data as well. I am thinking that if both the Phillips and the slotted are able to provide enough torque to shear of the bolt that it doesn’t matter too mu

Mark, Thanks for your input. I am really curious to know if you found any data confirming that the Phillips head can transfer more torque to the screw than a slotted head because I would really like t

Ryan and Kelly, I have had this problem on multiple occasions even when I alerted my CC company that a particular charge was to be made. What I have resorted to that has worked 100% of the time so far

Sorry, there is an error in my last post. The last line should have read “hex cap”, not just hex. Apologies. James