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All Group Members and Moderators, We have added a Amel Yacht Owners Group Wiki which can hopefully answer any of your questions regarding how to use the new group and its tools. When you are online at https://amelyachtowners.groups.io/g/main you will notice "Wiki" in the left column at the bottom. Click on Wiki to discover what you can do. The Wiki also includes a section for Moderators. Most of the content in this Wiki was provided by group.io, our host. I hope this helps you. -- Best, Bill Rouse Yacht School 720 Winnie St Galveston Island, TX 77550 +1(832) 380-4970 My Calendar

By CW Bill Rouse ·

SPURS Line Cutter 2

Hi Amelia's I need to order a new SPURS Line cuter and I'm not sure about size and type. I think it is: Spurs B 1 ½ ". Can anybody please confirm if it's the right one? Does anybody know a source in E

By WASABI - Rudolf Waldispuehl ·

Low Water Level at See water filter 5

Hi, I need your Help, Please. Recently i have noticed that the sea water level at the filter is going down without an understandable reason. i have replaced all the the pipes, have well checked the fi

By Luis ·

Galley sink 4

Has anyone tried painting the galley sink? Not fond of the existing mustard color on the SMM Kristen Schmit s/v Kiana

By Kiana ·

Mizzen Balooner falls 6

Sailing with 10/12 kt downwind, Jib, Mizzen and the mizzen balloner. Calm sea.suddenly the mizzen balloner falls into the water! I retracted the sail and found that the halyard block that is on top of

By JOSE PRIETO ·

Mizzen goiot traveller end car discs 6

I have a request into Amel. Anyone else have one of these discs break? I’m looking for alternate sources for a permanent solution, rather than using a line to the opposite stern cleat and adjust as ne

By Mike & Karen ·

Genoa Furler Mods, a la Amel Caraibe 4

We have been in Martinique having some maintenance done by Alban and his crew. It is a real delight to deal with professional boat mechanics who understand Amel Yachts inside and out. Here are a coupl

By Bill Kinney ·

Workaround failing GPS

Further to my question regarding setting up Navnet 2 with mushroom style GPS receiver. I set up the inexpensive receiver just tie wrapped above the chart table along with an Actisense repeater to prov

By Nick Newington ·

Near constant hot water without a generator - Here is how i did it. 9

We have an santorin with no generator but have 1000 Watts of solar. 400 of those watts are shaded - 200 is behind the main mast flexible panels and 200 is on the new hard top bimini (room for more) Th

By Eric Meury ·

Welcome New Owner of Phantom 3

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the Amel world for your support to me and my Amel 54, Phantom over the years. It has been most enjoyable and enlightening. It is with both ha

By Jamie Wendell ·

Introduction - and some help on fridges pls 20

Hello All, First I am delighted to be posting here - this forum is a great resource. Clair and I recently acquired Saol Eile (For the non Irish speakers Other Life) SM #228 - she is a fab boat and if

By Tom Crosbie ·

Airmar 220WX weather station ? 4

Hello, I am wondering how many of you are using the Airmar 220WX weather station or perhaps another ultrasonic wind system on your mast ? Are you happy with them ? Do you have any advice or suggestion

By Paul Guenette ·

Qsails 42

Please note. I am one of Bill's clients. I ordered a Main and Genoa from Qsails in August 2021. As of March 2022, I have been lied to and ignored repeatedly and still have not received the Genoa. John

By John ·

VHF, FM, AIS antenna and cable replacement 5

I have all new antennas with 25m cable to be installed on main mast and mizzen. How difficult have this been to replace old cables in both masts? I have read how was done when masts was down but can n

By Slavko Despotovic ·

tb/AMEL 54 outhaul protector burn out Mid Atlantic/AYOG 31

A friend of mine (Arno) is currently with his A54 (#122) 1200 NM into his passage to the AZORES and texted me this afternoon that the main outhaul protector burned. This protector is behind a panel ne

By Teun BAAS ·

tb/AMEL 54 outhaul protector burn out Mid Atlantic/AYOG + COVID 11

Hi Amel cousins, Kristy's Main furler has been getting weaker until it finally would fuel under any load at all. It still turns when disconnected from the foil, no noise. The sail furls manually with

By karkauai ·

Amel lost its mast - D1? 33

An Amel 50 recently lost its mast. It seems it broke around 5m above deck level. The boat only had about 6000 nm on it. https://www.familyontheboat.com/blog/broken-mast Luckily I have no experience wi

By Scott SV Tengah ·

Firefly Battery Update. 25

We have had some pretty extensive experience with our Firefly batteries at this point. We had a couple lumps and bumps in the road early on, but things now seem to have settled in to good smooth opera

By Bill Kinney ·

A54 with new Elvstrom sails 4

Attached some pictures from our new Elvstrom sails on our A54 Fun@Sea We’re happy with them and they do what was promised. Pointing appr. 5 degree higher, less heeling when sailing to windward and a b

By Laurens Vos ·

Updated album Small AC unit in SM companionway #photo-notice

Jose Venegas <josegvenegas@...> updated the album Small AC unit in SM companionway: I originally bought a small window AC until in Panama to keep the boat dry while we were out for a month. It cost $8

By Group Notification ·