Hi Guys I am trying to replace the rubber gas pipe on my Santorin #124 I easily managed to replace the pipe in the rear locker which connects to a copper pipe. The problem I have is the blue rubber pi

Charles, The intercooler as supplied is attached to the starboard side of the engine. If you must change the starter motor or impeller you must remove the intercooler. That is why Amel flipped it upsi

Last year I noticed a little bit of water accumulating in the deck lockers. This year, on returning to WG after the winter, I found an awful lot of fresh water in the lazarette. The only explanation I

If you have a ZF Hurth 25 and an Amel-installed shaft brake, you will want to know more about this and I promise more will be forthcoming. If the ZF 25 loses oil pressure, that loss of pressure will t

Hello Bill, Do you advise putting some corrosion X on the friction cones of the windlass to get a good free fall? Or is it a bad idea leading to slipping in high load circumstances. Thanks Denis

Eric, “I think there is something wrong with the engine, there is black smoke coming out of the galley sink” was what I heard—followed by the above photo. This is the best $79- you will ever spend. ht

We changed the battery bank to AGM so we need to upgrade the Alternator. Leece-Neville 175AMP Model BSC3157V Our Electrician chose Balmar-624. On the first try, the 24V alarm light on the panel went o

Welcome back, Please email me at kimberlite@.... If you have the 4jh3 Yanmar—I have a bunch of spares for that engine. I replaced it with a 4jh4hte. Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

Vi Vito, Are you in NY? I sold the old engine complete ; it was running well at 7500 hours. I installed a 10,000 btu Dometic version of this unit in my aft cabin https://www.dometic.com/en-nz/professi

Hello group members, I have a rather urgent question: In Amel 55, water flows continuously in the front toilet bowl. When I turn off the freshwater pump, it stops. I would like to know what could be t

Hi group sometimes good news can be shared :-) just received the new sails (main and mizzen, pro radial) from QSAILS. They arrived just in time and look great. We ordered in February, agreed deadline

I When I purchased Cloudstreet in 2019 a Yanmar 4JH-80 had just been installed. It had 14 hours on the tach. It is a common rail engine. It was purchased and installed in Martinique Everything I had h

Hello! I'm wondering where people with Sharkis are storing their Jerry cans of gasoline and diesel? Doing some research, it looks like the cockpit locker is not a good place because of fumes building

Does anyone have a detailed wiring diagram for the 8000 Simpson Davits, please? .... (I believe that the 7000's control box is similar) I have the standard wiring diagram that is in the manual & on th

Hi, I think about changing the lead/gel bateries to LiFePO4 and run to a bunch of questions. No problem with the generator because I use al 12 to 24 V charger (as the engine is chaged to a Hyundai die

Dear Amelians, a new Beta85T was delivered to me early 2020. My boat was in Saint Martin. Beta doesn’t have a subsidiary either in the Caribbean or in Mexico, but I found a very good Dutch mechanic do

Hi all, I just purchased a used Parasailor (169sq meters) for my A54 and had a bit of trouble flying it the first time, going dead downwind. With our rolling, the Parasail tacks/foot area was chafing

Greetings, At 1200 hours I performed routine maintenance on our heat exchanger on our Yanmar 100 hp engine. While doing this we also chose to inspect the intercooler. The heat exchanger and the interc

Does anybody recommend a UK based surveyor? I am near Plymouth UK. Thank You Mark Porter Sea Hobo Sharki #96 River Tamar UK

Hi all, I am researching to buy either a late 80's Sharki or early 90's Santorin which both have the early Amel electric furling gear. Can someone point me where to find these operators or maintenance