Our 54 has just received new rigging from ACMO. It now has the beefed up shrouds as done by Amel on the last series of 54s. I also changed the lower shrouds on the mizzen from 7 to 8mm as I found them

It does beg the question, was it ACMO rigging or not… Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

Hi Oliver, Thank you for your insight. Very helpful. I will now start cleaning the mast even more 😎 Regards, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

I had one as well may moons ago. Regrettaby the technical quality was not great. I went through 2 of them. I spent a lot of time trying to find something similar unit I found this. It uses a E-ink dis

Quote ” If a carbon fiber composite part is drilled and screwed into or otherwise machined, then all bets are off… the carbon is exposed and serious care needs to be taken.” Well, there are lots of dr

I spoke to a yacht broker today that has a lot of experience with Amel and he said there were A54 with problems with the reinforcement collar that sits around the lower part of the mast. Apparently th

Porter, Be aware you have the half-lid version of the countertop fridge/freezer, I don’t think you can do the same as what Ruedi did. But maybe I’m wrong. Regards, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121 Curren

Dear Bill, You should know better: Nothing is forever on a boat! Even not on an Amel! Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121 Currently in Le Marin, Martinique

Sorry this is the update file

For those suffering the week-rollover problem on the Furuno GP-150. I can confirm it is possible to update the device yourself. There are a few annoyances. First you need to get hold of a 7-pin cable

Hi Bill, You did an excellent job in charting the way your batteries are behaving! I guess I'm just disappointed by the expectations the Sales Blurb set for me about the the way these batteries behave

Hi Bill, The point we had was that we planned to put 10 batteries in the boat but this simply did not fit. The Firefly is just a bit bigger then most G31 batteries, making it impossible to put more th

Hi Bill, Good to hear you have positive experiences with Firefly. Regrettably mine are not so positive as I had 8 of them in our Amel 54 but they were not up for the task. The voltage was getting belo

For those interested in the primary salt water manifold replacement and how it looks on an Amel 54 see enclosed picture. As you can see the added value is that you now can shut off the engine supply a

Hi Alain, Make sure there is nothing else connected to the hub apart from your PC and the AIS. It will fail otherwise. Regards, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

Hi Joerg, Here is the software update log for the autopilot Cheers, Arno

Peter, Below is the spec-sheet of the secondary display I've used. For the primary display I did some modifications as the LCD was very bad. I replaced the LCD and also replaced the glass panel in fro

Peter, This is the schematic diagram with all the parts. Be aware that I have two Furuno course computers and the diagram shows only one as there can only one be active at a given moment. Cheers, Arno

I talked to Furuno and they provided me with the suggested 2.02 software for the AIS transceiver (enclosed). I did the update and it is working again as usual. For the GP150 (Not the DUAL) they are ch

Scott, I paid about 10k $ for everything together. I did however manage to get some of the toys at good prices on eBay. That takes patience. I'm working on the rollover bug (see other thread). There i