Joan, I'm sorry you're having trouble with the A55 helmsman seat. I'm 5'10" and find the seat quite comfortable. When sailing longer distances heeled, I often sit sideways in the seat with my feet up

Thank you, Paul. Where do you lead the bottom of the flag halyard? Joerg Esdorn

Gentlemen, let me point you to the attached YRA guidance on where to fly the national ensign, which I received from A54 owner Peter Forbes some time ago. Please see 4b. It‘s ok to fly the mizzen on to

Does anyone carry the national flag on top of the mizzen mast? If so, I would be very interested in seeing the mechanics of how to do this without interfering with the many antennas on top of the mizz

When I bought my boat in 2016, Amel was using Seajet paint which worked ok in the Med but I had to clean it every couple of months and I repainted every winter. I then replaced it with international M

To close the loop on this, I opened up the starboard side of my oil cooler as per Amel's instructions and it was all clean. It is the same cooler as in Bill's picture above and has absolutely no marki

#lessons

We all have our own technique for dealing with the bilge. We clean every dish with paper towels before washing up, going through countless rolls of paper every season. Then I put 150 g of hydrochloric

The other advantage of the Amel 50/60 grey water tank vs. the prior models’ grey water in the bilge is that the tank doesn’t smell as it is hermetically sealed. At least, that’s the theory. So presuma

Further info on this topic. I just learned that an A55 owner installed a direct drain to a new through hull for the galley sink. Anyone on this forum? That sounds like a great solution - furthering th

Thanks very much, Scott. You certainly are putting a lot of effort into your posts! I am sceptical as well of the MV support guys’ claim that his batteries are différent but MV’s advice to keep the ba

I have discussed the issue with a senior technician at MV support. His explanation for the recommendation to keep the batteries at 100% with a float voltage of 27.0V was that their batteries are diffe

On the 55, there are two separate feeds for the anchor winches: one controlled from the dashboard in the cockpit, which has separate switches for the port and starboard winches. The other is controlle

Thanks very much everyone. Based on Thomas’ suggestion, I‘ve now programmed an event for my 60A charger which switches it to float at 80% state of charge. The voltage of the batteries at 80% with the

Wow, quite a reaction. Yes, indeed, the anchor winches on my 55 are made by Quick. They are excellent winches in my experience, having hauled various mooring anchors, rocks and other stuff in many pla

A cautionary tale. Yesterday, one of my two Quick anchor winches came on without my pressing a button! I was sailing and the port winch started pulling the port anchor in - i.e. the motor was turning

You‘re welcome Bill. And I didn’t mean bingos (whatever that is). But bungee. The dangers of technology. Cheers Joerg

For what it’s worth, the boat I test sailed in 2015 had the main sheet go to the mizzen mast, as does my boat. There is a risk with that arrangement that the sheet will wrap around the corner of the r

Thanks so much! There are some excellent ideas here. My thinking now - based on everyone's thoughts - is to do the following: 1. Before I leave, charge the batteries to 80% and plug into shore power.

I have 3x Mastervolt MLI Ultra 5500 batteries on my boat, new this year. I’m starting to think about what to do with the batteries over the winter when I will not be on the boat. When I had my gel bat

I had 3 Mastervolt MLI5500 installed on my boat by the Mastervolt dealer in Spain. They were about E5000 a piece. Add to that installation which in my case included a MV Easyview monitor and connectio