Hi Jacob I’ve just replaced rotten bonding cables with the attached There is lots of good discussions about this on the forum that I read up on before attempting it and that helped. It’s a shot taken

I'm also really interested to find a headliner match - if anyone knows a close one thinking of doing my aft cabin roof at some point soon All the best Miles Maramu #162

Hydrovane works excellently for us on SeaLove I think the bigger of the WindPilot range (the pacific 2?) also works on the same principles - ie you lock your rudder and the vane takes over probably ex

hi there Martin I am a big fan of windvanes and put one on our maramu last year on my old boat (30ft) we had a monitor this time we chose a hydrovane as we used on on a family boat before and they are

Hi there Our Maramu has a Raymarine type 2 with a hole cut into the door through which it protrudes. It works well and looks ok I find the noise of the autopilot rather tiresome though so use a Hydrov

Thanks for your reply Kent Hmmm confused still. Which bit in the photos is the ssb grounding plate connection? I have 0 ohms when I test between the copper strap In the transom locker and the rudder p

Hello folks I’m just in the process of replacing the keel bolt bonding strap on my 1985 Maramu. It’s led to some head scratching re bonding and grounding and the wiring runs on these lovely boats. Sea

Hi Tom It would be great to hear what Amel say about this My 1985 Maramu has the Morse Commander 401 rack and pinion setup. Perhaps you have the same ? I took the rack apart a year ago before an ocean

Hi James Yes mine has 2 grease nipples also I am happy to report that my morse 401 racks were in great shape on inspection. I’m not too sure what they are made of One of my cables was stiff which is w

Hi there I thought it would be interesting to note that on the mid 80s Maramus with morse 401 commander rack and pinion steering system each rack has a grease nipple so this sounds like a good idea as

Hello Amelians I’m going to attempt to redo my bilge bonding strap connection as part of this winters growing list Thanks to this forum for excellent tips and tricks on this project so far. In terms o

Hi Bill The SM rig looks really interesting I think there is perhaps a couple of difference btwn Maramu and Super M in this instance though My Maramu might be typical of others of the same vintage in

Hi there Ours genoa 150% or perhaps even 160% when we purchased the boat We reduced it to 135 with a new sail and that seemed like a good compromise to us and got us around the North Atlantic very wel

this looks great! thanks for sharing and i like the smaller panels so might copy! So re the headliner by the ply window trim - did you glue this in place then replace the ply trim over the top as per

Hi there fellow Amelians Thanks to Ian on Ocean Hobo for describing how the interior ply window panels come out on his SN. Apparently remove window screws and bolts and the ply will come away with som

Hi Ian Many thanks for this response Can I just confirm how you managed to remove the ply window panels? Sounds like you are saying that as soon as the window screws and bolts were out then the ply pa

Hello A leak on the stainless grab rails on the aft cabin top has lead to some discolouration of the headliner during previous ownership. I’m hoping to leave the Headliner trim on the vertical window

Hello In a big downpour in the way back home to via Azores we had heavy driving rain from the rear and some made its way inside via the companion way lifting door I think it was running down the outer

Many thanks Denise 👍 On a few places on the cabin sole the ply has chipped at locker edges. Has anyone experience of how to fix this? I was thinking of colouring as necessary then building up the heig

Thanks for this info James Very helpful and very good timing as I’m almost ready to go on that cabin sole. I’m not sure I can source min wax in the uk but it looks like a reasonably standard non marin