Hi Slavo, Keep in mind that Amel is a boat builder and not a parts supplier or a shop. The fact that they supply parts makes them a better boat builder but they do have to charge the logistic costs to

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I had the same problem with all the Southco locks a few years back. All of them suffered from two problems, leakage between the housing and the GRP hatch because Amel was a bit too sparse with the Sik

Hi Bill, Yeah I was a bit puzzled by his statements about leaving isolated bronze thru hulls without zinc protection although it is common practice in many European boats. What happens then is that th

Dear Forum, I just spend some time reading this. For those that are in marina's it may complicate the view on the Amel bonding system: https://www.westmarine.com/WestAdvisor/Marine-Grounding-Systems P

Hi Bill (Kinney), In my book the distinction between "professional" and "amateur" is very much different from the distinction between good quality and poor quality. So even if a mechanic works for a b

Bill (Rouse), In my experience many of the so called marine technicians are are one trick ponys. They think because they have seen one installation, they have seen them all. Especially on an Amel this

Hi Paul, I doubt Amel changed the size of the cavity. I ordered the batteries with a fellow 54 owner with a much earlier hull number and he had he same problem. I do know the problem was in the few ce

Hi Paul, Be careful with the size of the Firefly batteries. I did not manage to get 12 batteries in the cavity. I’m not sure how many I now have as I’m not close to the boat but I do know these batter

Hi Bill, If he would have the chiller system, that unit would not carry a fan. So either his fan unit in the saloon is broken or he has the stand alone units. I seem to remember the early 55’s had the

Actually the sensors are Hall-effect sensors. Those plastic covers on your passerelle are non-existent on ours. The big problem is that the water gets to the top of the rotational actuator where the “

Hi Paul, Fair question. Actually I have been considering to enhance the system using an Arduino controller or similar. But builing something like that and also making it reliable takes time and I had

Hi Scott, The brain of this thing is fairly rudimentary so not too likely to fail unless water has entered the enclosure or the connectors. The way they routed the sensor cables is not the best leavin

Hi Vladan, In my case the sensors were the same as in the picture you made. Removing the cover is a bit of a pain. Remove the two screws on the side that is exposed when the passerelle is in the close

Hi Vladan, I am by now an expert in this fantastic piece of Italian engineering. You need to remove both covers of the rotating part of the passarelle. To do this you will need to rotate the passarell

For our boat I have changed the Climma’s for Frigomar Inverter units (http://frigomar.com/). A huge improvement. They use less power, have no startup surge and are more quiet during operation. The rea

Hi Laurens, Please be aware I’m working with Sofomarin as well. Some moths ago I helped designing a new secondary manifold together with Bill Rouse and others. This has been in place since on our boat

I can confirm the three way valve starts leaking after xxx time. I had to replace mine last year. By the way I don’t think there is a documented middle postion for the valve by the way. I only use two

Hi Ruedi, Sorry to barge in like this but I actually installed the MV Mass Combi Ultra 24/3500 as well so maybe you want to know what I did as well. In the later 54's the MV inverter is actually place

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Well, call me crazy but Ireally prefer the cabrio version. For me it’s much more elegant… Cheers, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

Hi Bill, Did they sell many of the cabriolet version? Arno