I don’t have an Amel yet but I had similar issues with my old Yanmar and it turned out to be the cable. You might want to disconnect it and try the shifter manually to rule it out. Brent Cameron, Futu

I’m sorry Kelly. I did mean you then! I guess I’m used to seeing Ryan and made the leap. Nice to meet you! Great minds and all that..... Brent Cameron, Future Amel owner & Amel Owner's Registry Modera

Ryan, I fully agree with you on this. I also read her first book and found it quite interesting… especially the parts about buying the Amel at the factory in La Rochelle and their very first experienc

Good catch Gerard! I meant the Rod Antennas in your terminology of course. I was referring to the fact that rather than a simple 1/4 wavelength antenna that is Omni directional (like our sailing VHF/A

Jorge, I use a UK three SIM for when I’m travelling in Europe and they have a wonderful roaming plan. I get about 20G for 15 British Pounds (you can even get unlimited for about twice that). and it wo

Those directional antennas generally have a +/- 3 degree plane off vertical. Using the old (and very handy) 1 in 60 rule (1 degree at 60nm is equal to a distance across that arc of 1 nautical mile or

Thanks David. There are no dumb questions when it comes to antennas on sailboats. The specification is called LMR-400 and TMS is the brand name (Times Microwave Systems) which is just one of several c

Couldn’t that also create the opportunity for Carbon Monoxide to collect in the engine room? (And potentially backflip into the cabin through the (usually dry) drains from the showers and lockers (ass

Thanks Scott/Ryan/JP. Scort, I had seen your post on the bend radius of LMR-400 and why you chose RG8X but thought you had them backwards (I’m sort of dyslexic myself so let it slide). You are absolut

I haven’t used the Raymarine system with AIS but I believe that your AIS already has all the information to show the details on the targets but keeps them hidden to reduce clutter. AIS systems use a s

There are a bunch of issues here and far too many to respond to each email sent individually so I’ll try to put down some basic principles and hopefully all will become clear. VHF band antennas can in

I had a very similar situation to that one time in my house…. I woke up one morning to find that the water in the toilet bowl was steaming! Thankfully, I realized it before splashing myself. It turned

Bill, a fluxgate isn’t a proprietary Raymarine term. It is a relatively simple device consisting of iron cores surrounded by primary and secondary copper windings. It is used to determine the magnetic

Dan, there are lots of people on the internet who make it seem easy and claim a high degree of success with various implementations of LiFePO4 but I urge a high degree of caution. There is a very good

Thanks Scott. I am making copious notes for when I get my own Amel. A side hobby has been following the whole Lithium thing (even outside of sailboats) so your experience is quite apropos! I did look

Fantastic write up Scott. I kept writing down questions and then erasing them as I read further and you answered them. I’d love to see a schematic at one point but I think most of it is pretty self-ev

Bill, speaking as one of those who really, really, wants to own an Amel but doesn’t yet have one, I find those “maintenance issues” posts fascinating and one key way to learn more about the brand and

Sometimes I really wish this forum had a way of indicating a huge thumbs up for a particular post! What a great little nugget of information on the differences between models. I have been trying to co

Hi James. My wife Jen and I are in a similar situation right now. We flew out of Pearson but we were on Azores Airlines. We’re flying back out of Vienna on TAP so no cross linkages at all. Nobody in t

The new forum with its ability to easily embed pictures into your posts as Mark has done to answer Ahmet's excellent question is a vast improvement. It makes it so much easier for everyone to understa