Hello Bill, all you wrote is correct. There has been some SM2000 with VOLVO engine and ZF25 hydraulic gear-box, with the same shaft-brake system as on the YANMAR engine. Some of these SM2000 are fitte

Hello Bill, I have downloaded the ZOOM app. What else do I need to do? If I want to show pictures during the meeting, how do I do that? Thanks for guiding me a bit. Olivier.

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Hello Carina, the cables are not available from AMEL, but as ULTRAFLEX is still in business, you should be able to order from them or from a representative. Olivier.

Hello Scott, what you describe is frightening and the lesson is: Don't let anyone work on your boat unless they know what they do, and try to get all the informations you can before letting them do. T

Hello Mike, in the SM2000 (starting october 1998), the A/C compact units compressors are cooled with seawater. The pump starts whenever one of the units is turned on cooling mode. But when these A/C u

Hello Scott, in order to tension the cables' sheaths, you need to turn the threaded tubes clockwise when looking to portside. Before this, you need to undo the big nut of each cable while you hold fir

Hello Scott, In 2007, Amel used to buy SS chains from WASI GERMANY. Olivier BEAUTÉ Envoyé de mon iPhone

Hello Rudi and Scott, the reason for the zinc on the SPURS rope-cutter is that it is attached to the fixed blade which is in fact isolated from the prop shaft by a plastic U-shaped part (you will have

Hi Volker, Originally, this Santorin has an aluminum casing C-drive, labelled CATEP, with a RH pitch propeller. Since 1990, the drive may have been replaced with a cast iron casing one, and if so, the

Hello Joerg, all the metal parts of your AMEL 55 (including your fuel tank) are connected together with the green/yellow wiring net and with the zinc anodes of your rudder EXCEPT the SSB ground-plates

Hello Bill, nothing to add so far. That's just a perfect information. Olivier

Hello Mike, your SM 23 did not have the rubber flap mounted on a stainless steel cylinder box. This system came later probably around hull 100. If your system has not been modified since original, you

Hello Graham, originally, there is around 20 cm of foil left at the top, above the swivel, with the original lashings (top and tack). This means that in the foil's life, cutting off the bottom for new

Happy New Year to all of you happy AMEL owners, In severe conditions, on a port tack, the waves slapping the portside may push some seawater into the main engine exhaust through-hull fitting. This is

Hello Stephan, It's nice to hear from you. I remember the handover of your SM in la Rochelle... How many nautical miles since? The 2 to 50 ohms findings look like a bad contact issue. First check your

Hello Bill and all early Santorins and SMs owners, the first mainsail furlers (in-mast and out-haul) on Santorins and SMs were made of a Bonfiglioli gear-box driven from a CIMA motor, 12V for Santorin

Hello Jeroen, there is not any good system to prevent the damages of a lightning strike. Even if the lightning strikes 100 m away form your vessel, the electronics could all be damaged through the ele

Hello Paul, originally, this line is rather tight, indeed as Bill says, in order to prevent slipage. But with time, UV and salt, this Vectran-core line tends to shrink and gets tighter and tighter whi

Hello Paul, no it's not OK to replace the packing material while the boat is afloat. You would then have a strong water ingress while you're working for installing the new stuff. Do it while you do a

Hi Oliver, the AMEL 54 main mast length is 18.50 m. Olivier