It simple provides better balancing between fore and aft making it easier to trim to a point of sail where you don’t need to steer. One of the things I was taught when I was very young at a sailing sc

What bill said 👆🏼

My .02 - YMMV 😉 - True redundancy means two completely independent systems… How this is done on a boat with one rudder is different than one with two. The SM and A54 (one rudder) have redundancy by pl

This is. On the third Amel I know if that has had its rudders destroyed… WHAT THE HELL!?!! I hope you are ok and we’re able to makekk no it to port safely. That sounds frightening… especially them “pu

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Personally I find it amazing that a pair of killer whales attacked the rudders, destroyed them, and a) the boat didn’t sink b) the boat was able to still make its way to port c) the hull and rudder po

#attackedbywhales #newboat

I’d love to know - beyond who they market to - what changes make these new boats less seaworthy world cruisers? The only three specific features that are regularly brought up are: - twin rudders witho

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Thank you nick - my goal with 1200watts of solar and 800ah of lithium was to run the gene set once a week... This would let me make water and do the wash, as well as give the gen set enough run time n

Thanks Ken! You’re inspiring confidence in me! Are you running an electric stove?

I’m so excited to see this… I take delivery of my new Amell 50 in a week and a half and it has 800 amp hours of 24 V lithium with 1200 watts of solar. I think the main difference is that we also have

All - in our collective efforts to be more off-grid, and to simplify our already complex boats the Integral System (introduced to me by Matt Salatino) seems interesting / promising albeit expensive. F

Scott – The hard top panels are on a separate MPPT, and I definitely don’t expect them to perform to their “rating” per the heat challenge that all flush mounted panels have… the question will be just

Congratulations on Makemo! I had no idea that the generator run time was that much – wow! Solar and Lithium would transform your world for sure! Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Has anyone experienced the 50 with the lithium? My new 50.. which because of covid I won’t set foot on until April 1 when she arrives in the US... has 800ah of 24v mastervolt lithium (which I could al

Super nice solution – well though out, well made. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Super good looking job! Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Woah - that’s crazy. Somethings definitely not right and Amel wiring it up in a way that voided the warrenty seems also crazy... if you’re the original owner that definitely feels like a conversation

Ditto on sharing - I’d like to send as well.