Hi Thomas, Are you on the Island at present? If you like we could meet. I’m sure you have all kinds of stories on an Amel 54 Regards, Arno Curacao

I’m surprised you can still buy that stuff. It’s increadebly bad for the environment as it messes up the hormone-balance. In Europe it has been bannen for quite some years now. So no Tin-based a/f for

Hi Nick, Quick question; Where did you get the Micron 77 from? I looked at a few chandleries in the Caribbean but did not find it. Cheers, Arno

Hi John, That may be sooner then you think. I will be on Martinique in the week of 9 July. Regards, Arno

Hi Forum, A while ago I noticed a conversation about getting new furlers for the Amel 54 at a group rate. Does someone know what the actual state of this initiative is? Thanks, Arno Luijten

Hi Teun, Thanks for that. How is your new yacht treating you? Did you get the new furlers? Regards, Arno

I have contacted Paul from Bamar USA. He responded very quickly although he is away for holidays. He will look into this when he gets back (July 6th). He thinks he can serve me as well at the latest p

Dear Forum, Last week we had a very succesful survey of our new (to us) 54. The surveyor was very positive and the seatrial went very well. She will be on the hard for a few days now to have Amel work

Hi All, We have now taken our new pride to Curacao, she is lying safely at the dock of Curacao Marine in good company of another 54 and a Sharky. Our "maidenvoyage" went very well, it took us 72 hours

Digging deeper and deeper in the engine bay, I found something I don’t really understand. Maybe the esteemed members of the forum can enlighten me. The refrigiration system has a electronic box that s

Hi Barry and Penny, Our A54 had the same problem as did another A54 we know of. Both were replaced in Martinique by the Amel service point in Le Marin. They use a hydraulic jack to lift the mast sligh

So, for those interested: I looked it up on the Interweb and is seems Frigoboat (actual company name is Veco S.p.A.) has this system where they use a special developed circulation pump designed to run

Sorry, I did not witness the process myself. They just told me what they did. I suggest you contact Amel directly to get more information on this. I'm guessing they build a yoke of some sort to transf

Hi Thomas, Interesting information. I will check what the controller on our 54 supplies to the pump. It seems odd to supply a higher voltage to the pump that for which it has been designed. This again

Hi Charlie, Welcome to the Amel Family. I've recently joined myself and yes these boats are a steep learning curve. As they are designed and build by French people that have a strong opinion on what a

Today I measured the voltage directly across the circulation pump for the fridges and it measures 12.5 Volts when one or more fridges are running/cooling. That makes sense as the pump is 12 Volt. Frig

Hi Thomas, In the best Italian tradition the information is not very clear to discover, but if you go to https://nautikulma.fi/PDF/248-Veco.pdf, in the PDF at page 44 you will find the devices I refer

For those who are interested. I just removed the dryer from the forward head. This was because it tripped the RCD breaker because of some grounding fault. Removing is quite the puzzle. The shelf that

If I were you I would select a Webasto diesel heater. They are virually the same devices as the Eberspächer but from what I recall the electronics on the Webasto are at bit better. Also they have a mo

Hi, If the pump gets that hot first check the voltage across the pump when running. It should be between 12 and 14 volts. If not the pump interface is broken as this converts the 24 volt coming from t