Wonderful. Best, CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... 720 Winnie, Galveston Island, Texas 77550 www.AmelOwnersYachtSchool.com Yacht School Calendar: www.preparetoc

Dan, Thanks for this. It seems that early SMs had poles that were 58cm longer than later model SMs. I have to assume Amel shortened the long poles for a reason. Best, CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht S

As promised here is the order information for the Secondary Saltwater Manifold made by SOFOMARIN of welded polypropylene pipe. Super Maramu late model Secondary Saltwater Man... Bill CW Bill Rouse Ame

John, That would be the short poles, right? CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... Address: 720 Winnie, Galveston Island, Texas 77550 Website: www.AmelOwnersYachtSch

Nick, It is hard to believe that an internet site anywhere fails to register the dns "www.website.fr" as well as the "website.fr" http://www.sparcraft.fr works but http://sparcraft.fr does not. The fu

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Dan, I know of no such recommendation. I know that 1 SM owner (Hull before 200) says that he shortened his poles by 57.5 cm. to match the length of a SM2k. I am not sure that this statement from him i

Mark & Nick, Thanks CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... Address: 720 Winnie, Galveston Island, Texas 77550 Website: www.AmelOwnersYachtSchool.com View My Training

Amel 54 Secondary Saltwater Manifold made by SOFOMARIN of welded polypropylene pipe is ready to be ordered for the Amel 54! AND the SM2k. The SM2k will be posted tomorrow. It is made of welded polypro

Kevin, If I were you and because this is the only part of the pole system that will suffer from UV degradation, I would take the other "good" ball off of the short pole and bring it to a machine shop

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Kent, Yesterday I was told that Amel shortened the long pole with the SM 2000. I have noticed how the long poles are stored on deck with earlier model SMs versus later models. The earlier models overh

Here is a snippet from my book. Pole ends were made by FranceSpar, now www.SpaceCraft.fr, also in the US www.sparcraft-us.com. I am not sure if that company made the entire system for Amel. Amel recen

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Normally, meaning before COVID, you could get a good answer regarding who to use from either info@... or customerservice@... Bill CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 8

Pat, If you haven't already solved it, I have a solution that works for me. Your problem is the length of lift portion of the hose and the weight of the diesel in the hose in that lift portion. You ca

Wolfgang, I agree with Dean: "Buy a GPS antenna with NMEA outputs and mount it behind the chart table panel. Use this to feed the radios directly. I did this when Furuno told me they could not fix my

Wolfgang, I assume that you have the automatic rinse solenoid valve and also the manual ball valve to rinse the membranes. I am trying to remember but is it possible that the valve might be before the

Wolfgang, I assume that you do not have GPS SOG but probably have SOW (Boat Speed as reported through the B&G Hydra. It sounds like the likely cause is the Furuno GP-150 which is no longer made. I did

Matt, Thank you very much for posting this. It is very important for all of us to take a few seconds to remind ourselves of the need for safety. I grimace from my own imagined pain every time I think

Based on the temperatures you gave I am convinced the white smoke is steam. Here is another photo showing how carbon can build up in the exhaust manifold and exhaust elbow. And even though the buildup

I doubt it is the thermostat because of the temperatures you have. CW Bill Rouse Amel Owners Yacht School +1 832-380-4970 | brouse@... Address: 720 Winnie, Galveston Island, Texas 77550 Website:

The operating temperature (oil) should be about 80C and the exhaust elbow about 50C. The issue is that you are not getting enough saltwater through the heat exchanger. The causes are multiple, but cou