Hi Slavko, No, we didn’t need to take it apart. All we did was to add more ball bearings though the holes that you can see in the picture. We fed them in carefully so as to not drop any and kept addin

Hi Slavko , Just found some photos which show the ball bearings and where we were loosing them from. Best regards, Helen and Kosta Yuvanidi Meditation SM 29 of 1990 Greece

Hi Slavko, We had a similar issue, it happened when we furled in on our last trip of the season, so we were lucky. When we checked in the marina I noticed a little hard plastic ball bearing on the dec

Meltemi yachting in Athens, Greece stock those ball bearings. We replaced ours this year. Link attached below. https://www.meltemi-yachting.gr/ Best regards, Helen and Kosta on Meditation SM29 of 1990

Hi , We have the same one, SM 29, and had it repaired at a machine shop here in Greece, going well so far ! The machine shop we used was in Piraeus. Best regards, Helen and Kostas SV Meditation SM 29

Hi Bill, Thanks!!! How I managed to send the email to you instead of Maud beats me…😂 All the best, Helen

Dear Maud, Hope you had a great summer. We are very happy with our new drive unit and thankyou for all your help! We have left the boat in a marina on the island of Samos and are using her as a winter

Hi Mike, Our old c-drive was overheating last year even after we fixed the oil leak, it was really really hot , like an iron. There was also a strange smell. We could only use the engine on low revs f

Hi Mike, We just replaced our aluminum c-drive, this summer. Maud at Amel supplied the complete new drive unit. We still have our old one and are wondering what to do with it. We had serviced the uppe

Hi Kevin, We just replaced our c-drive this summer. Along with the new c-drive Maud at Amel sent us all the engine mounts , (for Perkins Prima M80T )mounts for the new c-drive and the base for the eng

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Dear Jose, The Maxprop dealer in Greece is Kafetzidakis sails in Piraeus. I’ve attached a link which has their number etc. They should have everything you need and are very friendly and helpful. Best

Many thanks Bill!!! Helen

Hi Kent and Iris, Thank you very much!! Bill just sent me a file which has a plan for the alignment tool so we will definitely get one made. We had asked Maud for one but they no longer stock them. I’

> > Dear all, > > We just received our brand new drive unit from Amel and are wondering if anyone else has replaced theirs and has any advice for us. We have a mechanical engineer to do the job but i

Hi Jeff, The Onan representative is in the Alimos area of Athens. I’ll attach the address and telephone numbers. We get all our spare Onan parts from them. Helen and Kostas on Meditation SM 29 ENEQ PC

Hi thanks everyone, we’ll look for the drainage hole!!

Dear all, Our boat is out of the water at the moment and when we removed the zincs, a lot of water drained out. I seem to remember that there should be a drainage hole at the bottom of the rudder, is

Hi Rob, We have taken ours off three times and our advice is , with great caution! Great that you will have professionals with you! You don’t need to loosen the side stays just the rear ones and the o

Thanks to everyone who gave us information! I thought I would update on what we did to solve the problem of the seal. In the end we managed to solve the problem of the leaking oil, but it looks as if

Hi Mitchell, Thanks!! We never had the oil seal...we have taken it apart many times in the 20 years we have her...that is unless it was removed before we bought her....:/ It would be a great help thou