Arlo, I was wondering if it might be a good idea to ask Tides if the hose you are ordering is meant for use with the traditional stuffing box? I could be wrong but it appears that the hose in the link

Arno, A portable wet dry vac that can suck up screw drivers out of the bilge? It sounds like you may possibly have found the Ultimate “Amel Vacuum”! Bill R. has pointed out many times on the board the

Craig, I am amazed that you found a US source for these boxes! Thanks for sharing, I have added this information to my Sueno file. I will be in Florida myself pretty soon and will follow up. I agree w

Craig, Thanks a lot for the help. If there is a supplier that you like to use for ordering these please let me know. Best, James SV Sueno Maramu #220

Hello fellow Amelians, I would like to locate spare gearboxes for the main mast and boom curlers on my 1987 Amel Maramu. Amel has not been able to help me with this since my spars are by Nirvana and w

Wade, I have also seen exhaust hose used for stuffing boxes and so far have not seen a failure. Perhaps the exhaust hose is being used by yards since they tend to have that hose on hand whereas the pr

Wade, If the cutlass bearings were made accurately it could matter a little but if the shaft feels tight and is not rattling then I would not worry about it. In my experience there is sometimes more t

Wade, The exhaust hose is good for it’s intended application and but it is not as strong as the much thicker 5 ply hose sold specifically for stuffing boxes. The hose that I use is by Buck Algonquin a

Arlo, I have installed a few of the PSS dripless units made by PYI on customer boats. They are pretty well designed but I am going to stay with the original Amel installed Bronze packing gland which i

Miles, If you look carefully on the back of the top rack I think that you will find that your boat actually has two grease nipples on the steering system, or at least mine does. I missed the second on

Pat and Craig, That is very interesting that apparently the SM and SN do not have any kind of top bearing for the main and mizzen furler extrusions, I learned something too! My boat does have a bearin

Pat, I would try detaching/disengaging the mizzen furlers gearbox from the extrusion. This would allow you to determine where the binding is. I will leave the specifics of how to detach the extrusion

James, I thought of one more thing that possibly could be causing the noise. I installed a cutlass bearing once that was a bit on the tight side, apparently a manufacturing issue. The Cutlass bearing

James, I replaced the original Amel engine mounts on my Maramu #220 this year. The part you have circled is the bronze stern tube which will extend into the hull. It appeared that mine was bonded and

Miles, Viewed from the engine room, on my Maramu there is a copper strip that starts at the forward engine room bulkhead that runs aft down the inside of the Port engine stringer and then athwartships

Bill, That is interesting speculation about the smoothness of an autopilot affecting the life expectancy of the steering rack and makes sense to me. I have also been concerned about the possible wear

Gerhard, These same nuts are used all over my Maramu, many thanks for posting a source. I will add this to my file. James SV Sueno Maramu #220

Nick, Ahh, so it has finally cooled off in Greece. But what a nice October we had this year eh? As you have already suspected I am sure that the difference in the flow of the oil is just the viscosity

Jarek Fiberglass that is fractured does not break along nice straight lines per your photo. Those look like joints to me. Oliver could probably tell you for sure but I suspect that the parts forming t

Dave, It would be a pleasure to connect with you if the timing works out. We are also at Cleopatra. We could be back as early as Feb. as we would like to sail the Agean and perhaps to Turkey outside o