Hi Ross. The pipe that I am referring to is located in the starboard bow deck locker. It actually terminates at the top of the anchor locker, although if you stick your fingers up inside the hole that

Good day everyone, The hawse pipe in our 1983 Maramu is shot. The fiberglass has split open in several spots, and the (iron) pipe underneath it is crumbling apart. Has anyone had to replace theirs? If

Looking forward to that! Mike

Here is the aftermath... Rudder stuffing box repair | Zero to Cruising! Rudder stuffing box repair | Zero to Cruising! The first thing to be done is to remove the quadrant, etc. from the rudder post.

Thank you!

Thank you. As you can imagine, I am not very happy about this.

It is the latter.

Good morning all, We have a new-to-us 1983 Amel Maramu. After noting that we had a leak at the top of our rudder post, we gave it a closer inspection yesterday. What we found was that when the rudder

Hi all We are the relatively new owners of a 1983 Maramu. The boat was previously French flagged and we are just now completing the process of having it flagged in Canada. In the tonnage documents we

Hmmm.... interesting. Thank you. That is the name of one person that WAS recommended to me. Mike

Hello Everyone, Is there anyone here who has purchased an Amel in Martinique and could recommend a good surveyor on the island? Thanks, Mike

Thank you. The one in question that reportedly did not have one is a 1982, hull 108.

Hello all, Could you please confirm something for me, did all Maramus come with the retractable Amel bow thruster? Thanks, Mike www.zerotocruising.com

Hi Ross Thanks for the info, the offer to help and the kind comments! :) You needn't worry about us getting claustrophobic. Our PDQ cat is pretty tiny and we had no problem on her. In fact, we have be

Thank you. Mike

Thank you, Sir! I am paying attention. With respect to Surveyors, is there anyone who is particularly recommended in the Caribbean? Mike

Ian and Judy I don't want to hijack this thread but I'm very interested in speaking to you about your experiences in Patagonia. If you have the time, please shoot me an email: zero to cruising ATT gma

Thanks, Kent. I agree, there's big value in having someone familiar with a boat spending time a new owner. I'll search the topics as you suggested. Mike

Hi John. Thank you for that detailed reply. I am taking note of all of that. Mike

Hello everyone, New member here. My wife and I are actively shopping for a Maramu 46. In addition to browsing the various threads here, I thought that we'd poll the membership for any issues that we s