Unfortunately, the exercise did not go well and, in spite of having proper oil in the system and water circling around, after a few minutes there was a change in sound accompanied by smoke and, after

After major surgery getting the motor/pump out of the engine room (there was no way I could get the back cover out) I found that after turning the motor by hand IT IS WORKING YEEEA!. So, Mark you were

Thank you BIll, It looks almost identical but mine has a single capacitor with 54 micro F. Yours has 2 of 30 mF in parallel (60 mF). is the m for micro of mili? If it is micro, it is bad news for me b

The water maker high-pressure pump motor is not starting and breaking the AC circuits of shore power and Onan Generator. It is a LeRoy motor. I have checked for a short circuit and seems OK. (1-ohm re

Craig Still pristine and constant oil level Jose Ipanema Sm278

David, Yes they are intended to replace the hard lip seal. I installed them in the opposite order of your second picture but with the same orientation that you have them : Both lips facing the water.

Nicely done Bill. I wander if anyone has upgraded the traveler car. It seems to me that it is not possible to remove the old car and ad the new one without separating the track from the deck or cuttin

Hi Danny, Good luck with your seal. It could have been a bad seal but it is also possible that the shaft is no longer lined up and over time the seals get deformed and looses its lip tension. At one p

Patrick, I installed a B&G sonar and I have similar erratic signals. I think we need to find out why from B&G. At anchor, it seems to work fine except that it can be confused by reflections from the c

Oliver, I had a similar problem with the boat speed reading and changed the sensors (not an easy thing to do) Unfortunately the reading was still 0. I then open the box and cleaned the contacts betwee

Below is the list of Amel owners that asked me to order the special seals, please let me know if I missed anyone. Although some of you have already sent me the info via different means, I need to make

Did you have to modify the ballooner and add a gaiter? NO Where do you attach it to on the foredeck? Directly to the anchor support plate standard hole

James No chafe on the sail or the rigging Make sure the sail edge is protected from UV. When we came back from our 1 year cruise I had to replace the edge material of most of the sail Lowest relative

It uses the additional halliard above and the hole in the anchor chain roller that seems standard on my boat. Just enough distance from the genoa

James, I have an asymmetric spy on a top-down furling RollGen 20 by Bamar. Spy dimensions: Luff=17.07mtr Leech=15.4 mtr Foot=7.9mtr SMG=7.105mtr I have enjoyed it for more than 6 years with the main a

Danny, Bi-annual seal change for little use seems excessive compared with over 3+ years of heavy use without changing ANY seals but... if it is working for you it's fine with me. Hopefully will be hea

Danny, I am not sure if my system is original or retrofit. It does seem to have an anti-twist vertical tube mounted beside the thruster. All I know is that when I bought Ipanema (Nike before) in Flori

Danny, I understand very well how the system SHOULD work and, if everything is new, the seals should work as designed. Unfortunately, wear can change the system and, in my case nothing worked to stop

Dear friends: After I bought Ipanema 10 years ago we had two years of struggle trying to prevent the leak of water through the bow thruster. About 8 years ago we had a long discussion on this forum ab

Thank you guys, I was mistaken, My current chain length is 60 m. Clearly, 100m plus extra 30 of rope should be plenty. Theo, congratulations on Paloma. The Ultra anchor is beautiful. Jose Ipanema