My little trick We all agree it is daft that the 12v alternator is located directly below the raw water pump. It is a question of when not if it starts to leek as the lip seal eventually wears a groov

Hi Jeff, I have a 54 with Webasto forced air heating system fitted by Amel in the factory from new. The unit itself is located high up in the port cockpit locker with the exhaust straight out the port

Hi Bill, It is odd that Amel did not fit the red stop button on all the 54’s. Looking forward to getting back to Amelia in the spring and fingers crossed that the vaccine rollout will be well underway

Hi Bill et al, My 54 Hull 019 had the red stop button from when I bought her in 2017. In addition there is a description of its use and photo in the owners manual. My feeling is that it was installed

Hi Woody, Is the low pressure pump primed and working? If the HP pump is not fed with water from the LP pump it will automatically shut down. Nick Amelia AML 54-019 Leros

Hi Kent, I think this has been done before by an Amel in Scandinavia, with success. Not sure who?? It would be easy to try it with some flexible ducting pipe run from the outlet, over the cockpit comb

Another snippet on the learning curve. Back in September I noticed a hole in the bottom of the intercooler which was blowing air. I was convinced that it was a pin hole in the aluminium casting, and b

Sorry did not mean to send that. Bottom line is that I am sure you have found the problem. Carbon dust with oil leak to make it extra messy. Nick

Danny if I remember correctly the motor and gear box are fitted to the vertical shaft that goes up to the winch with a keyway on the shaft and the gear box is bolted up to the deck/winch. I do not kno

Danny, If you drop the motor and gear box be careful to keep it level as oil from the gear box can leak into the motor and then out and make a mess....been there!! Nick S/Y Amelia 54-019

Hi Danny, The motor looks pretty much the same as the motor for the windlass on my 54. On my windlass I had a similar problem as you describe. The motor also got hot. I removed it and stripped it down

Dean, Thanks I will order a pair. I checked the Lifeline technical data and general information and they say nothing about balancing. They do talk about not mixing old with new, but we all know that b

Sorry to go on about batteries…… I have 8 Lifeline AGM batteries set up as four pairs of 24v. So the four pairs are in parallel. I set them up as I found the original and as Amel must have set them up

Hi Dean, When I bought Amelia in 2017 I replaced the Onan. I spent about two months with no genset and there was no list. As soon as the new genset was installed we listed to port. I also bought new L

Hi Dan, On my 54 I have had a similar experience. After the unit has been shut down for the winter, when I recommission the boat, this automatic shut down happens sometimes. I have found that it is th

The trick I have found is to make sure there is plenty of outhaul tension. It needs to be tightly rolled in and out, always keeping the outhaul as tight as possible. Keeping a really good eye on it ev

Hi Teun, I have also been looking at the OCT website. I have to say it does look great. Is there any way that the hard tender, can bang the hull of Amelit? Maybe near the stern? Or when you hoist the

Hi Mohammad, Yes I slept on the problem. It turned out I needed to back out the arms at the top furling swivel. My top lashing on the genoa broke and the tension on the halyard jammed the swivel right

Hi Mohammad, Hi Aty, We very briefly met as you were leaving when we were both anchored off Corfu town last summer. I bought Amelia with her Caribe included and it is still going strong. Hypalon ponto

Hello all, I used to run a large catamaran that doubled as a survey vessel, we were looking for ancient ship wrecks. Mostly in shallow water. We worked in Asia and Mozambique among other places. The f