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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jose Venegas <josegvenegas@...> added 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 $80,

Hi guys, did anybody tried to use isopropyl alcohol to clean fresh water tank? Considerations? Thx!

I put Amelia ashore in November which involved flushing all the systems with fresh water including the fridge raw water circuit. I launched on 27th April. Everything running nicely until yesterday 30t

Hey folks any recommendations on a replacement/upgrade to our overhead cockpit light? Maybe something with white/red bulbs and a three way selector switch? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!! Ric

I recently had the knob that holds the refrigerator against the cabinet of the sink pull out of the refrigerator. It is held in place by a pressed in bolt on the side of the refrigerator. I decided to

Nice job Good service Competitive price Nick S/Y Amelia Amel 54-019 Fethiye bay

I have a Feruno GP90 that still works but now all the data ports have quit. I bought an inexpensive mushroom GPS receiver and an Actisense NMEA expander that works well so the VHF, SSB, and Navnet 2 a

Just taken the solenoid valve out to give it a clean/pickle with some acid hopefully to cure a suspected slow leak. Reassembling the solenoid and associated plumbing, one particular connection would o