I can confirm what Eric has said about their being residual oil / emulsion in the bottom of the C-drive. I use a 60 ml irrigating syringe with a short piece of tubing inserted thru the drain plug hole

Hi Pat: It is unclear to me what you are referring to when you say, "the problem is in the swivel part of the furler". Are you unable to crank the winch handle drive more than 360 degrees? Have you ve

Hi John: Thanks for your work on this. I will next be aboard on 4 June 2020 and will initiate some photo exchanges with ACMO. What was involved with, "engineer directed attempts to "clean" the chrome"

Hi All: I inquired of Cummins (Onan) about the specifics of changing the generator bearing. The original person that helped me sent me copies of the updated (latest and greatest) parts and master serv

Follow Up on Onan Genset Bearing Replacement. I contacted Onan thru their web site and received a reply from Jesse Ketive, a Cummins Level 1 Diagnosis, representative. He was most helpful and sent me

Hi Oliver: I have been concerned about the generator rotor ball bearings for the last 15 years. As I recall the manual indicates this should be replace every 5?? of years or ?? hours of run time. In 2

Hi John: 5 years ago I replaced the standing rigging on my SM Hull #335 using an ACMO supplied "kit". ACMO was a pleasure to work with, shipped promptly, packaged and handled the supplied materials we

Hi Bill & All: Mark at Borel returned my phone call yesterday afternoon. I told him of my long favorable use of his product aboard my boat and the renewed interest in the pump run-on alarm. He has ret

This is a good discussion. I have had three forays into this arena: 1. I once manually set my Dessalator fresh water flush valve to the flush position, got distracted and pumped 800 liters of "flush"

Hi Joerg: The video you posted appears to be about right of flush water. My flush system (the automatic timer one I built over a decade ago for my Dessalator 160 l/hr factory system, so as to never ha

Hi Kent: What a great find and a great discussion along with Joel's post. Sooooo valuable. Thanks for sharing. Glad you got that WOB (wearing out bearing) out. It is still a bit of a mystery to me as

Dear All: I wasn't able to locate my waybill with a weight, but the invoice from Maud was as follows: 32 metres 3459 Liston De Coque Ivoire SM Ref P 000470 / Ivory Rubber scupper Material for Super Ma

Pat, I'll rummage through my paperwork and see if I can find the way-bill for the scupper shipment and see if it has a weight (standby). My guess is it would take two large suitcases for the scupper (

Hi Pat: I had the two pieces of rub-rail insert (I call them scupper) shipped from Amel for my hurricane repairs in Puerto Rico in Dec 2017. Price was $2,686 with shipping. They were about 5 feet too

Hi Eamonn: I can speak to the "in a marina (spider web of lines" idea. DON'T DO IT!!!! I was in Puerto Del Rey marina during Irma and Maria (cat 4 & 5), Boat stripped, spider web of lines (11), many d

I obtained my rub rail insert (I call it "scupper") from SAV in Dec 2017 for repairs Liahona ( Hull # 335) sustained during Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The material, including shipping (air freight) to

Good evening everyone: I am in the market for a new main-sail for my SM SN 335. I am replacing a Super Sailmakers vertical batten main-sail that has reached the end of it's life. I had a love hate rel

Hi Bernd: The Delrin "spacer/mounting" blocks are locally fabricated and/or "sort of" available from Amel. When I ordered a couple of sets from Amel to replaced my cracked ones, they arrived but I qui

Chuck: Sorry not to respond earlier. Just got a chance to look at messages. Earthquake took out power for a couple of days and wifi just dumped about 200 messages onto my phone. I purchased my Trojan

Hi Duane: Are you referring to the ring bolt on top of the toe-rail just forward of the main mast chainplate? If so you may find that it is secured from the back side with a nut instead of the mild st