Hello Andreas, We own Hull #72, and have the same winches you do. These winches are Lewmar Wavegrip, and were last manufactured in 1991. Amel must of had a stock of them, as they went on many if not a

Hi Dave, I disclosed everything about Aloha that Topsail asked for, and I have absolutely nothing in the policy which would limit there liability in the event of a fire for any cause. With that said,

I’m curious when Amel decided to change to the genoa furler installed on most of the SMs. We have SM #72, and our gearbox and motor is the same as the later boats. In 2015 we overhauled the genoa gear

Thank you for sharing the article. I installed lithium batteries a little over a year ago, and it has been one of the best upgrades we have done to the boat for our off the grid cruising. We needed ne

Hi Mark, Thanks for the help. Obviously, I’m a bit out of my element if I thought the failed component was a resistor when it is actually a diode. I just emailed the pictures of the board to a company

I’ve managed to remove the defective circuit board from the bow thruster control box, and am attaching a couple more picture which will allow you to see the damaged resistor. Steve Aloha SM #72

We have just had a failure of our bow thruster to move to the down position. After opening up the control box on the linear actuator, it appears the top resistor of the 2 you see in the attached pictu

Pat, It sounds like you have the next generation of track and car, which is Antal. My track is 1 1/4" high, which is different than yours. I finally managed to match my track and car after extensive i

Hi Bill, Our track and car is the one you have depicted on the right and labeled as SN OEM/Lewmar. I guess this style track and traveller was used on both the SN and early SMs. Our track is an I-beam

Hi Pat, Thanks for your help. I’m curious to see what you traveller system looks like. Most SMs I’ve looked at did not have my traveller system, but most of those were higher hull numbers than yours.

We just broke the attachment point on our mainsheet traveller during our passage from Seattle to San Francisco. We have SM #72 with the original style track and traveller. Amel changed to a different

Hi Mark and Nicky, We own SM#72, and I’ll attach a picture of our main sheet traveler. The early SMs had Lewmar travelers, and sometime not too long after our hull number Amel switched to Antal. It is

Hi Kent, I can’t promise you the way I installed the seals is correct, but I can tell you that we have gone over 4000 miles since installation with zero water intrusion. The way you received the seals

Hi Eamonn, Pat was kind enough to supply pictures and a template of the tiller extension to us when we were in Hawaii. We sucessfully installed a linear drive based on the information he provided, and

Hi Dan, sorry about the starting issues, as I know how frustrating it can be. On a non electronically controlled engine like yours, it is most likely a fuel issue. If your fuel is clean, and no air in

Thanks Gary. Why did they cut the top? In my case, only the very bottom where the rivets had been needs to be removed. The rivet holes in the foil were so elongated that we just couldn’t get rivets to

Sorry to hear you caught COVID, but glad it was a mild case. I get my 1st Moderna jab in 4 days, and hoping we can travel internationally by the summer. The decks are noticeably cooler to walk on, and

We have removed our head stay and furler from SM72, and would like to replace the rivets with the stainless screws and backing plates that Amel now uses. Does anyone know if Amel still sells the kit w

Hi JB, The decks are painted with Awlgrip. The tan color is Castle Tan (G6006), and the white is egg shell white (H8015). They mixed a fine grit with the tan for non skid. This was a very labor intens

We painted the decks on “Aloha” SM72 a little over 4 years ago. In our case, the cracks in the gel coat had allowed a few chunks of of the tan gel coat to chip off. We ended up grinding off all of tan