Hi Richie, I think Amel did it on purpose. Hot salt water will corrode metal pretty fast and if you go with metal it will become constant maintenance/replacement issue. after all it served you for mor

Hi Billy. Aluminum does not rust, (you can google it). If you see rust stains on aluminum that means something else rusts and stains it. it seems like bolt was not 316 stainless and it was rusting awa

From the forum search looks like there is SM319 and SN24 Bali Hai

Does CopperCoat stay in tact when hauling out? Given it is epoxy mix coats, I assume so, but still would like to ask. I use regular ablative water based antifoul and every year my boat has marks from

Hi Pat, check this out https://youtu.be/6JkCzOZ9k_Q they had few failures, but at the end worked out. Good summary on things to watch out for. They have few videos on their saga with copercoat, this i

Hi Ken, did you consider Butyl tape as a sealant? Many prefer it to seal hatches, it stays tacky for years and years and you can easily remove it if needed. Regards, Ruslan. --

Hi, for fuel transfer I recently discovered siphon hoses with shaker primer. Very easy to transfer from jerry can, fast and the most important, you don’t have to lift and pour and wait for it. Not muc

https://www.cruisingworld.com/red-right-returning/ BVI also follows US system. --

Hi, how do you clean it? On my current boat I open tank every spring and use plastic tube connected to a pump to remove 1-2 gallons until I stop seeing black chunks from the bottom. I do that to avoid

Thank you all for your comments. This is what I thought and got confirmations from first hands. I knew the build quality is very different, but Lagoon is also in 1M+ range yacht, which made me wander.

Hi, could you please let me know if Amel boats, SM specifically, are quiet boats? I’ve chartered Lagoon catamaran last week and it was a noise generating machine at anchorage and during passages. They

Thank you Bill. Agree about thought through, one of the big reasons why I’m looking at Amels. --

Hi Mike and everyone, this is the page where Charles Doane explains what he did at the end to deal with his flooded engine on his Boreal 47. https://wavetrain.net/2017/12/12/lunacy-s-flooded-engine-th

Hi Paul, You need to know that there are no aluminum parts on a circuit. If you have Zinc, Aluminum, and Steel on one circuit. What is going to happen is that corrosion will always start with Zinc, th