Hi Bill. Yes, I'm referring to the manual furler that the winch handle goes in. I don't know how you could add oil with it in place. Mine had never been serviced, and hearing about the shearing off of

Hi Bill. I just serviced my manual furler for the main. It is filled with a very heavy gear oil. I found only one place (in England) that sold it by the liter, otherwise it is sold in very large quant

Hi Brent, thanks for the input. That is a lot of tool. You tackle a lot bigger jobs than I'm likely to do! Years ago I launched my lake boat without the plug, and had to jump overboard with a sock to

Hi all, I've seen a few posts where people talk about using a slide hammer. I've never used one, but I run across projects regularly where I think one would be useful. Can anyone guide me in choosing

Where are you Pete? Maybe there's someone close by who can help sort it out? Kent SM 243 Kristy St Michaels MD

Following the previous advise about proper alignment procedure and replacing the rubber "donuts" in the flexible coupling, I've had no vibration issues after repowering SM243 from a Volvo TMD23 to a Y

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There is Fort George Island Marina on the N side of the river across from Mayport a couple of miles up the St John River. Nice people, clean, floating docks, reasonably priced. Lots of traffic and som

I repowered SM 243 with the Yanmar 4JH4HTE 110HP. It fit nicely with only requirement new shims for alignment and cutting away small semicircle of the angle iron support to allow for the oil filter. I

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Hi Jose, Congratulations on your new Amel, and welcome to the Amel family. If you search this forum you will find several threads about this problem. I had a TMD22 on Kristy, SM243 that I bought in 20

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Good advice, Mark, I forgot Todo that and have to replace that sheet now. Kent

Hi Pat. That's just what I did. Iris and I are sailing up to Maine July-Sept, will holler when we get back. Hi to Diane, Kent

Ian, I have hull #SM243 and Pat's description is exactly where the problem was on my furler. Unfortunately, in addition, the housing for the shaft that holds the winch handle came unscrewed a bit from

Hi Paul, Every boat is going to be a little different depending on load distribution (center of lateral resistance) and even sail shape (center if effort). That's what works on Kristy and should be a

That's correct Victor. A bit less than we were sailing with before we hove to, because the winds were picking up. Leave the jib sheeted in and tack without changing jib sheets (backwind the jib) then

We hove-to three times this Spring before crossing the Stream. Each time 35+kts from the N, 8-10 ft seas. She heaves-to like a dream, slipping directly downwind with the upwind slick preventing waves

On Kristy, 3ft would be enough, 4 would be better.

Hi Mark, That sounds right, but am not certain of the thread size, I would encourage you to insist on 316 stainless. Kent SM243 Kristy

Hi Michael & Robyn, This won't be new info, but will reinforce Bill's thoughts. I've had similar problems twice in the last 11 years if ownership. The first time was very much like your problem. It tu

Unfortunately, I can't claim that, Gerhard. I replaced the whole element/thermostat/zinc assembly a few years ago. At that time it was about 3 years old, and the old zinc was about half gone. Kent SM

If you are talking about the solenoid between battery negative and the Onan engine block, that is there to isolate the Onan from battery negative EXCEPT when glo-plugs, Start, and Stop solenoids are u