I replaced the radar bracket on #56 when I got my boat also. 200 bucks to replace or so. I think my hatches were already replaced when I got the boat. I do see small patches of paint bubbles around st

I have one on top of my main mast. Lasted about 21k NM or 4 years before it failed. 1200 bucks for the replacement. It works and produces low frequency data. Never tried to use it with our 711c autopi

Same happened to me. I was on my 3rd rebuilt 213 which didn't work when I gave up, bought a WS320 and installed on the mast. I configured the H5000 to use it rather than the MHU and changed the TZ2 to

My MHU 213 on the mast is broken and so far I can't get it repaired. I've installed a WS320 on the mast and configured the H5000 to use that instead of MHU for AWA. The H5000 is calculating TWA etc co

On my boat, I have a chiller circuit for HVAC.its supposed to be a fresh water glycol mixture. The air handlers are brass. The calpeda pump corroded pretty badly because I don't think there was enough

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A fitting on the spreader for the D1 apparently. There are replacement kits it seems available from Amel but requires a shop to get it fitted.

Can confirm this experience on my 55. No password. Billy

She is located in Charleston Harbor Marina Resort. The boat is listed with McMichael. The boat is ready to go, new Climma DC35 35k btu HCAV, new kvh v7 hts high speed internet, pepwave max transit cel

We are with gowrie now (Markle, $11K) for our Amel 55 for US East coast and Bahamas and they basically refused to cover our boat south of T&C so maybe they are at the limit. They have been looking for

Just looking at Coder (Amel 55#56). My SC30 wasn't impacted, the date time from that is still correct. My GP33 is impacted and as a result the VHF radio shows the wrong time but correct GPS. I need a

I'd like the last one please. Emailed you seperately.

Hi We were anchoring the other night and our windlass seemed to just let chain out as if there was no clutch, the chain counter said free fall during this. What is free fall? The quick manuals, well,

Anyone used a PLC to control this? Seems to be a more future proof approach.

I'm about to swap my broken climma cws201 with a Climma DC35 inverting unit. The cws unit had a refrigerant leak by the reversing valve which turns out to be impossible or very difficult to fix. So, r

I had Maine yacht center install 1200ah of lithionics batteries with 1200w of solbian solar, 300a api alternator and 2 x 3kw victron inverter chargers. 90k usd with about half that being labor. Billy

I had custom soliban flex panels made for my previous boat. The price per watt of the custom panels wasn't much different than stock sizes, just longer delivery time. I went overboard with this boat a

I have a similar question in to the under writers for Markle right now. They are my insurers, I'm still using mastervolt gels on Coder. I'm asking them about upgrading to mastervolt lithiums.

I had my boats tank cleaned last October. There was quite a bit of black stuff on the bottom of the tank. A dock side service just pumped out the fuel, filtered it and then pumped diesel back to the t