What a wonderful forum. The expertise and experience here is astonishing. I do take issue with the comment “stainless steel doesn’t rust” although I suspect something may have got lost in the Franglis

Unfortunately, I’ve had way too much experience with this task and I have found that better than pliers/spanners, or even chain wrenches, are the cheapie “oil filter” type rubber belt wrenches as they

I looked to see if I took any pictures of those chocks as I remember looking at them (and wondering what they were) while onboard Kimberlite at the dock in Bermuda but I think that I was more interest

AH…. Sorry, for some reason the groups.io locked me out saying my message bounced and I had to “unbounce it”.. I assumed that nobody got my first message and I didn’t get to see any subsequent replies

Great article Eric. I know you’ve used yours in anger a few times. I’m curious, what was the best way you’ve found to retrieve your JSD? Brent

Great article Eric. I know you’ve used yours in anger a few times. I’m curious, what was the best way you’ve found to retrieve your JSD? Brent Cameron, Future Amel owner & Amel Owner's Registry Modera

All autopilots work by utilizing a deviation from the current course over ground to the set course so it’s not surprising that it always does a (should be slight) turn to port as they need that deviat

While $200 is definitely worth it and cutting and drilling acrylic sheet, perspex or plexiglas is a bit nerve wracking, it is quite easy to do yourself without special tools. The secret is to go slow

Thanks Pat. I misunderstood. I had thought that you had done the modifications to put in a second linear drive instead of a rotary one (I have never seen a Super Maramu without one so should have gues

Hey Pat. A dumb question to try to educate me. I have always heard that the optimal two autopilot setup on the Super Maramu was to have one in the rudder quadrant under the master cabin berth and a ro

I have uploaded all of the brochures available on the Amel Web Site (some of them were buried down where they are't visible from the main page) into the files section of this forum here: https://amely

It shows up in their "Story" on their web page. I have uploaded that to the files section here. https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main/files/Amel%20Brochures/Our%20story%20-%20AMEL.pdf

Hi Bill. Yes, if this is successful, the plan is that owners be allowed to opt in to the plan at any time (assuming there is enough critical mass to even begin such an effort). I actually live right o

Hi Miles. That’s exactly the reason the group has been working in this potential offering- to ensure that Amel owners can continue to enjoy using their Amel’s as designed. IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, plea

Hi Courtney, for sure this isn’t something that is going to happen in a month or two… at best it would likely be ready for the fall if there is sufficient interest (right now we have something like 12

Just as a reminder, there is a small group working at looking at group buying options for insurance right now and we have put together a survey to help us gauge interest in such an offering (and to al

Didn’t you and Karen also install a hatch on the aft cabin deck just aft of the mizzen mast? I absolutely remember being fascinated by your innovative mizzen traveller adjustment (just like the main t

John Harries over at Morgan’s Cloud did a pretty good analysis of the issues surrounding this concept. I don’t agree with everything John posts but he’s generally right and always puts a lot of though

Of course you are right Tom. I knew that but sometimes I get things exactly backwards when my fingers type faster than my brain! :-) Great catch! Brent

Actually Matt is right, the US (and Canadian) standard is 120Volts AC +/- 5% (which is 114 to 126 Volts) at 60 Hertz. Way back in the early days, Edison (who won the power battle with AC power over Te