A Portabote is great for fast use and it folds down to the size of a surfboard so there are lots of options for storage. If you were day cruising in calm waters using the aft cabin top might be tempti

I'd appreciate a cc as well. I've got a small crack I'm sealing but it would be nice to know what the joint and structure look like. -Nathan Maramu #29

These run on methyl alcohol, not hydrogen. Their current manuals insist on using EFOY fuel as they had problems with bad fuel from other sources clogging up the works. -Nathan Maramu #29

Not on my Amel. If I did, probably in the engine room or even one of the heads under the towel racks (they output waste water so you need a drain). But, the short version: Quiet! Doesn't need much att

Newer, high quality fuel cells should be quiet and push power whenever you need it (unlike solar/wind). On the downside, their power production tends to be low for the cost compared to the spread of s

I recently replaced a set of 12V wet cells. The wet cells lived a good, long life so no complaints. I replaced them with 12V Trojan AGM's (8D size) a few months ago- working great so far but I haven't

I will not comment further on the merits of other groups. This is just a technical comment about making an offline copy, which I find handy when disconnected from the internet. It worked for me. The d

I agree with the group that prefers email as a fully supported way to use the group. Fully supported, not seeing message excerpts and "click here to see more and reply!" The existing Facebook group is

They must have changed it for me at some point then. In Imperial Units terms, standard bolt, standard thread. Though it wouldn't surprise me if the zincs were "close enough" and only the bolts/threadi

Which PHRF district? I'm going to be going through the same process this spring for Northern California PHRF on the original Maramu. Relatively few Amels have been rated; I think Detroit rated one of

Deb, Dave is easily reachable at his business, islandplanetsails.com, and also has been monitoring this list at least until recently. If you have a hard time getting in touch, I can supply his email a

To answer the main question, this would be a tinkerer thing to do and likely to gut the resale value of the boat. That said, let's look at it for your own needs. How fast does a SM2000 go through the

My Maramu now has 70hp (originally 60 I think). Judging from a for-sale ad, the new 64's are in the 150 hp range so that gives us a ballpark. If I wanted to be able to enter somewhere such as my home

So sorry, mis-reply.

You're welcome to try the wireless one with the iPad... want to take the one I know works to Mexico though. You could just have the other one. Anyway, turns out that I'm at Wally's tomorrow night for

I don't have one, but unless they did something special for an Amel version doesn't the Furuno 208 Mark 2 print out on paper as well? For myself, I like the SSB->laptop combination with occasional fid

Like BeBe, I have Kyocera panels and have been happy with them (also on two other boats). That's two ~100W panels, one port and one starboard on the lifelines aft. The long axis is forward/aft and the

Anyone have details on what was used to finish the interior wood of Maramus? Comments on the Super Maramus welcome as it may be close enough. I've got little patches to maintain including sun and salt

I got the form letter and an explanation. The explanation said that they were no longer doing auto-renew policies and gave me a list of three different insured crusing areas to select from for them to

I have one and like it for bay use: rowing only so far. When rowing with only me (190 lbs) in the rower position, there isn't much freeboard at the bow. However, I've rowed around with another guy abo