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

Further to my note about converting from V belts to serpentine system on the Amel 54 and others. I went on the Optibelt site and had a good look at the rating tables and the engineering section. Very

Hi Oliver, If you are talking about the small pulley on the alternator itself, it is very tight, so you may have to take the alternator off to a garage that changes car tyres and ask them to use the c

If I were you I would sort out the raw water pump leak, change the fuel filter and then run it at full load for a few hours and see how it performs. Nick Amelia AML 54-019 Leros

Hi Billy, To check the temperature, you need an infrared heat sensor. Really handy for checking temperature of the various parts of the engine… Nick

Normally white smoke is either water or unburned diesel. Maybe it could also be contaminated fuel. The main engine I presume is not blowing white smoke??? If the main engine is fine, maybe you could t

Hi Rob, In my opinion there is nothing particularly skilled in dropping the forestay. Some strength and agility and common sense, and three people minimum. It is easiest in a marina, bow to a long doc

Hi Alan, Yes I know your set up is great, but you are running A section belts whilst the early 54’s were set up for B section. This is the crux of the problem. I have an external regulator. I have had

HI Barry, The trick is to buy an off the shelf small pulley. I think that Leece-Neville only do the one I bought, because I looked at the Pulley options on their website. The shaft on the 175 A altern

Hi fellow Amel owners. I have never been happy with the Leece-Neville 24v 175A alternator set up on Amelia presumably as supplied by Amel. Namely a double V belt pulley of 230mm diameter driving a 85m

Thanks Bill, mine never had a cover. Great I am on the right track. Nick

Hi Bill, So the GRP cover was always there. I took it off and bedded it back with silicone. The odd thing is that the front end was left open for spay to go straight in. I decided to glue on a pvc fab