1989 Amel Super Maramu
She has been re-rigged as a single-masted sloop with a a highly reliable system incorporating a three slab-reefed, six full length batten, sizeable roach mainsail on a one-piece mast track with Torlon ball bearing cars while retaining an equal sail area as *both* in-mast furling main and mizzen sails on a standard Super Maramu ketch. A separate external stainless steel track for hoisting a storm trysail (which is included as well) is fastened to starboard of the mainsail one-piece track. In addition, an inner forestay, with Dyneema running backstays, has been added for flying storm jibs. The forestay tang is thru-bolted the vertical bulkhead inside the forward lazzerette and thus presents zero leak potential to the inside cabin of the boat.
Our mainmast height is also less than a ketch rigged Super Maramu--she has an air draft of under 63 feet and has traveled inside the intracoastal waterway (ICW) between Fort Pierce and Port Canaveral at various stages of tide with 2+ feet to spare under the bridges. From a water draft perspective, she has traveled from Mile 0 at Norfolk, Virgina to Melbourne, Florida completely within the ICW.
During the winter and spring of 2012 we hauled at Cape Marina in Port Canaveral, Florida and hired MarinePro of Cocoa to repower the Amel. MarinePro took out the original Perkins M80T diesel, completely removed the Amel U-Drive transmission system, and installed a new Yanmar 4JH4-HTE with an 8 degree downangle Kanzaki KMH4A transmission coupled to a conventional straight Aquamet 22 shaft. Custom 316L stainless steel V-strut supports shaft with Max-Prop propeller. Details of the repower on separate page here.
EQUIPMENT & SYSTEMS
Dual Racor fuel filtering system with pressure gauge
12 vdc alternator
24 vdc alternator
Max-Prop 3 blade propeller
Standard fixed 3 blade propeller
Amel bow thruster with spare propellers
Bow thruster gasket
Electric bilge pump with float switch
GROUND TACKLE
40 Kg. custom Rocna anchor, galvanized
Lofrans electric anchor windlass
275 ft. 5/16" Hi-Test galvanized anchor chain
FOB anchor, galvanized
Spade anchor, galvanized
Spade Oceane anchor, galvanized
425 feet 3/4" NER 3 strand nylon with 25 feet chain in starboard forward lazzerette
675 feet of 7/16" Yale Maxibraid (Spectra) line in port forward lazzerette
4 x 150 feet 5/8" nylon anchor line
Saltwater demand waterdown pump
SAILS
110% jib, Hood vectran with Sunbrella UV furling cover
Mainsail, Hood vectran
Mainsail cradle cover/lazy jack system by Doyle sailmakers
120% jib, C&C with navy blue Sunbrella cover
Staysail 50 sqft Johnson & Johnson
Trysail, Scott sailmakers
Asymetrical Spinnaker, UK Flasher w/ATN sock
Staysail 84 sqft Hood
Spare assorted Dacron/polyester sheets
Amel burgee
Lewmar winches through-out; primary genoa winches 24vdc powered
Amel downwind pole system, 1 set of twin poles per side
Amel downwind pole system, 1 set of color-coded lines per side
Amel stainless steel pole supports on shrouds
Custom stainless steel pole mounts on mast
Bosuns chair
Horseshoe buoy
Amel emergency tiller
Emergency wire cutter
3 Lewmar winch handles
30 amp power cable - 50 feet
50 amp power cable - 50 feet
Engel 30 12 vdc refrigerator/freezer
Frigoboat 24vdc refrigerator/freezer
Village Marine Little Wonder watermaker, 24vdc, with filter spares (under 10 hours use)
Isotherm stainless steel water heater, 120vac and engine heat exchanger
Propane/Butane cooking stove with oven
Aluminum Worthington 20 lb. propane tank
Steel 20 lb. propane tank
Electric remote controlled propane solendoid valve
Hot and cold pressure water system distributed to: forward head; galley; aft head; cockpit washdown only cold water service
Jabsco Sensor MAX VSD 17 12-24vdc 12a max 4.5gpm freshwater supply pump
Profurl LC42s (factory reinforced upper swivel)
8 Ronstan blocks for furling line
5/16" Red Ultratech furling line
Taylorbrite CCF lights in salon, galley and navigation station
Custom stainless steel arch davit with radar mount by Wells Marine
LED davit stern light controlled by wireless remote switch (2 each)
Garhauer stainless steel davit
Boss Boat 10 foot Yachtsman, custom yellow gelcoat, w/ chocks
Boss Boat Sunbrella cover
Suzuki 8 hp
ELECTRONICS & NAVIGATION
Garmin gpsmap 76
Icom IC-M302 VHF radio
LED 24 vdc anchor light
ACR 406mhz epirb
4 x solar panels, 20 watts, ICP solar flexible
BP SX150S 150 watt, 24vdc solar panel
Prostar-15 solar charge controller
Autohelm Course Computer
Autohelm remote gyro compass
Autohelm 6000+ control head
Raymarine c120 display
Raymarine smart heading sensor
Raymarine 24" 4KW radome
Raymarine Raystar GPS
Furuno NX-300 Navtex receiver and antenna
Furuno DFAX receiver
Humminbird 727 fishfinder/depthsounder
B&G Hydra 330 system (Depth system functional)
Autohelm electronic hand bearing compass
Kenwood CD/FM/AM stereo
Clarion 4380 interior speakers
Polypanar MA4055 5 inch round waterproof speakers in cockpit
Recording Barograph
Watrous Clock
Watrous Barometer
Shipmate cockpit speaker
Plastimo Iris 100 telltale compass
Ships bell
MAST, ALUMINUM
Installed new December 2003
PROFILE : Z-Spar Z1001 Classic non furling
INERTIES : 3650cm4 X 1650 cm4
DIMENSIONS : 290 X 175 mm
LENGTH : 16450mm
FINISH : One piece anodised to 25 microns
The mast has three conduits, one to the head and one to the radar position and one to the steaming light position with electric cable and spare messenger lines installed.
1 Aluminum masthead : Bolted in place
- 2 aluminum sheaves for main and boom lift
- 2 aluminum sheaves for Genoa 1 and 2
- 1 crane with spinnaker U bolt
Inner forestay level :
- 1 inner forestay tang bolted in place
- 1 sheave box for staysail
- 2 Tee/eye tangs for running backstays
- 2 lazy jack eyes
2 sets of spreaders
-Aluminum bar spreader system with aluminum plates
-2 sets of aluminum Spreader ends for 1x19 rigging wire
Shroud attachments :
-8 backing shell fittings for all side stays
2 flag halyard blocks :
Gooseneck fittng :
- 1 goseneck bracket aluminum anodised
- 1 gooseneck toggle aluminum anodised
- tack attachment point
Vang fitting :
- 1 vang bracket aluminum anodised
- 1 toggle
6 halyard exits :
- 6 exits with stainless steel mast protection plates
Side winch pads :
- 2 side winch pads fitted
Cleats :
- 6 large 200mm cleats fitted
BOOM, ALUMINUM
Installed new December 2003
PROFILE : Z-Spar Z690
INERTIAS : 1660cm4 x 462 cm4
DIMENSIONS : 232 x 142 mm
LENGTH : 6095mm
FINISH : Anodised one piece section
Forward end, aluminum mechanically screwed in place with :
- 1 aluminum lug to receive the gooseneck toggle.
- 4 ertalyte sheaves ø 80mm
- 4 rope stoppers
Aft end, aluminum mechanically screwed in place with :
- 4 ertalyte sheaves ø 80mm
- 1 stainless steel bail for topping lift attachment
Under boom :
- 8 stainless steel under boom sliders for main sheet, vang. Reef tie off and lazy-jack attachments
Mainsail Track System
- Fully battened system
- One piece track installed
- One headboard car with Torlon bal bearings
- Five batt cars with Torlon ball bearings
- Six intermediate cars with Torlon ball bearings
- Four complete spare cars with Torlon ball bearings
Masthead triwhite light Aquasignal
VHF cable and arial fitted
Deck flood/steaming light fitted
Spinlock XC1S1 jammer fitted
Mast climbing steps « Mast Walker »
Trysail stainless steel track
STANDING RIGGING
Installed new December 2003
316 Stainless Steel 1 x 19 Wire
Stay Size Qty Top Lower
Caps 7/16 2 Ball/Shell Sta-lok
Forestay 1/2 1 EYE Sta-lok
Inner F/S 3/8 1 Togg/fork Sta-lok
Backstay 1/2 2 EYE Sta-lok
Runners 1/4 Dyneema 2 EYE EYE
Inters 3/8 2 Ball/Shell Sta-lok
Lowers 7/16 4 Ball/shell Sta-lok
O/V = Overlength wire for sel-fit lower end
Tee = Tee swage terminal
Ball = Ball swage terminal
Togg = Toggle fork swage terminal
Stud = Stud swage terminal
Shell = Backing shell for ball swage
RUNNING RIGGING
Installed new December 2003
Halyard Size Color Type
Main 1/2" Solid white T900
Genoa 1 1/2" Blue tracer T900
Spi 1/2" Solid red Sta-Set
Boom lift 3/8" solid green Sta-Set
Staysail 1/2" Green tracer T900
Outhaul 12 Solid blue Sta-Set
Reef 1 1/2" Solid green Sta-Set
Reef 2 1/2" Solid red Sta-Set
Reef 3 1/2" Solid black Sta-Set
