I looked at a GOST system last year for my old boat but at 14k installed, I stopped looking. I just self installed a Ring security alarm on my Amel 55. A spotlight battery wifi camera in the cockpit l

It started working again today. Debris on the transducer?

Turned my electronics off and on today and now the depth went from correct to widely ranging incorrect depths between 38 and 90m of water. It reports as an airmar dstxxx, anyone know exactly which mod

My climma did cool the boat on delivery in June and wouldn't heat it in the winter and now won't cool it today. Does anyone know someone in the new york area (ish) who can work on these. The yard I'm

I got my surprise from Boat US today. I'm moving my Amel from NJ to NJ, literally 20 miles to a different marina and my annual premium went from 3.7K to 11.4K. No good reason for this rise, "crime", "

I have a Pi 4 on my 55. I added a yachtd NMEA-2K to Wifi bridge. This allows my PI to sniff all NMEA data on the furuno N2K backdone. I have an RTL/433Mhz dongle on my PI. This collects temperature/hu

I suspect my squealing or squeaky hatch is actually the counter weight system for the hatch. Has everyone serviced that on a 55 or similar boat yet? The hatch squeals a lot when raising and lowering i

My boat has a Jay electronic remote control which should control the mast and outhaul motors for the mizen. It does nothing right now and I'm wondering if someone else had such a system fitted to thei

I just cleaned my tank (Amel 55#56) and I had a solid/complete circular gasket. The problem on mine was fuel can made it past the gasket and was pooled in the center of the gasket. With no "hole", it

And to finish this out. We measured about 60g in the tank when we emptied it today at an indicated 1/4 which is correct. I added 168g today and the gauge shows full correctly with 228g of fuel which i

I have the tank cleaned and polished today. We pulled about 60 gallons out which matches the 1/4 level on the gauge. We're still unsure though as last time we were at 1/4, we added 106 gallons to what

I've been running my boat in the marina this winter with the diesel heater running. It was down at a quarter in late Dec so I filled it with 103 gallons. I had fuel coming up the fill pipe in to the o

My last boat, I had 1200w of solar and each panel had its own mppt controller. I think I had 16 controllers, genasun typically with 2 victrons for the largest panels. Besides the insane wiring, I got

My Amel 55 is a 230v boat. I am using a us 240v pigtail to power my boat in the manner you describe in the usa. The heater and climma work on shore power. The 2500w inverter must be on for dish washer

I dont know if this has been addressed before but besides an answer of as much as possible, what are peoples experiences? My 55 currently has 750W (2 × 375w LG) on the davitts. I am debating bumping t

I noticed yesterday that the fwd shower is dripping when turned off. It looks like a Paffoni brand shower mixer, the other taps in the bathrooms are similar brand. Is there a rebuild kit for these? Ne

Found 2 things this morning. The light for the heater indicator in the engine room is an normal bulb and was blown hence no flashing. The burner on the webasto was seriously burned up and coked. The u

My Webasto is acting up and stopping during operation. Normally, there would be a switch with on/off and a LED to indicate fault codes. There is also a fuse block with a F1 (20A), F2 (5A) and a F3 (20

I'm living on my 55 right now which is in the water in jersey city, nj. I was away visiting family over christmas. I have a raspberry pi on my boat running the usual IOT stack (RTL433/Influxdb/telegra

Hi Arno, I have everything hooked up now and want to upgrade everythings firmware which appears to need the installer password. If you can email it to me at billy at billynewport dot com I'd be gratef