Thank you Thomas. I’ll review and am sure will have some questions. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Thanks Scott for the very useful information that has functioned well for 18 months. If you don’t mind, I may reach out to you when we get closer to our final design concept and pick you brains and in

Hi Arno; I think all of your questions and concerns are valid. We are going through the same questions as we plan our upgrade. You have to first really sit down and decide exactly what your optimum se

Hi Thomas; Unfortunately, we are not on board, so I cannot definitively answer your question. However, I do recall holding the gear box in my hands and wondering how to get into it. If there was a scr

Ok. I see. It was Bill’s fault. Lol. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Teun; Sorry about your finger. I can see how it would be dangerous to try to open the door in a rolling seaway, hold it open while you grab stuff. We just have one strut. Attached please find a pic

Hi Teun; We have the small door for our top loading fridge in the galley and ours does have the struts. Ours also is getting weak and need replacing. So, input on this would also be appreciated if any

Very interesting Bill. The amount of tension required to avoid the line slipping has always been a concern. Who knows when we’ll be back on board. But I will take a look and see if its something we wo

Hi Reudi; To clarify, in order for the sensor to be isolated, you need two wires. You cannot have an isolated single wire sensor, since it will utilize the engine block as the negative leg of the conn

Hi Ruedi; In order for the sensor to be isolated ground, it needs to have 2 wires, since it cannot use the engine block as ground. If you use the serial number of the engine to order the part, a singl

Hello Gary; We are looking into supplying the entire 220V panel from the battery bank by inverters, so we can run all boat systems from the battery bank. With new inverter/chargers there is the abilit

Thank you Randall for the detailed explanation. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Randall; Although our “temporary” fix of spraying CorrosionX in the furler has lasted over 4 years and the furler is still very smooth, it has been on our list to service the unit, once we figure o

Hi Thomas; We had the same stiffening within a year of purchasing Kokomo. It got progressively worse to a point that we felt we may be damaging the gears by placing the amount of force required to fur

Thanks for the information Paul. Have you checked and confirmed the S/N to be sure this is the correct part for the 54s? Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Thanks to Bill and Tilo for taking the time to make these happen. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

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Hi again Steve; I forgot to mention that we will be installing the Yacht Sentinel boat monitoring system that has many functions that it monitors such as Geofencing (Anchor drag), low battery, high wa

Hello Steve; You make valid points. However, we feel that at some point, we must have standard operating procedures, that address issues like the one you mention. There are many systems on board that

Hi Bernd; We always use ours on an individual filter setting. We change out the used filter, when we service the engine and generator annually. We currently put about 200 hours on the engine annually,

Teun; Thanks for the clarification. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099