I was the previous owner of Randall’s boat. Based on previous experience of short handed ocean sailing and being new to Amel with the 54, I thought I needed a wind and water powered self steering rig

Could you add Caduceus of Burnham, 54 #56, completed March 2017. Martin and Elizabeth Bevan. Thank you Martin

When Caduceus 54 #56 was new we had a large problem with the galvanised chain twisting and forming knots in the chain locker and jamming in the hawse pipe. This continued despite having a swivel at th

We replaced the original Bosch machine in 2017 when it started to trip the power out. The replacement was as in the previous post, a Beko. There are very few half depth machines available and Bosch no

Thank you for all the responses about the engine room. I tried the plastic paint suggestion. Plasti Dip is available in the UK. It comes as a spray or brush on and there are the appropriate thinners a

The Mizzen furler on my 54 has become increasingly stiff in operation. Any advice on how to introduce a charge of grease without removing the gearbox from the mast? If it is necessary to remove the ge

As others have stated, the two sticks are important. On our Atlantic crossing I found one on the deck, the anti vibration nut having vibrate off, I found the errant nut in the top swivel. In attemptin

We have had the timing belt changed twice, once in New Zealand, 2,200 hours and recently in Spain, at 2,250 hours. There special Volvo tools for this, in NZ the Volvo engineer hired them in from Volvo

The black covering on the engine room sound proofing on my 54 has peeled off in a number of patches. Has anyone experience of successfully repairing this without replacing the complete sound proofing?

I know that this was two years ago but did you come up with a solution. I cannot find the original posting and I have the same problem. Regards Martin