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Newsletter 1 – January 2025
Happy 2025! While it's still cold outside, we can see spring around the corner and we're getting ready to sail Nalu home. We've booked our tickets, have a planning-board full of post-its, an exited crew and a huge to-do list. We're all getting very excited and looking...
Preventive Engine Maintenance – Part 1
Preventive engine maintenance is essential, especially when you’re preparing for a long trip, like we are. We plan to sail Nalu from her current home on Samos, near the Turkish border, to the Netherlands. This is roughly a 3500 mile trip, and we're going to need our...
Newsletter 000 – November 2024
Video: Nalu in Ormos Marathokampou Marina, where she will stay for the winter. Welcome to our first ever newsletter! We're very excited to have you here :)Our plans for winterIf at all possible, we want to visit Nalu for about a week in January. Just to make sure...
Fitting a Rocna 40 on an Amel Super Maramu
One of the (many) things you should never scrimp on, in our opinion, is the ground tackle. When we bought her, Nalu had a Spade 30kg which we thought was ‘not oversized’. I had read in the Amel Email Group that a Rocna 40 would fit just fine on the Super Maramu, so we...
Converting the ASM Saloon Table Into A Berth
We have a 1994 Amel Super Maramu (#120) and our table was designed by Amel to convert into a berth. Look at our photo’s to see if maybe you have the same convertable table!
Amel Super Maramu Review – Yachting World 1993
One of the reasons we wanted an Amel was (is) the build quality. Contrary to populair believe, not all CE CLASS A are build equally well / solid / strong. There's a huge difference between the different brands out there, and even when looking at the same brand, the...
How to pay Greek Cruising Tax – Tepai
One of the less fun sides of buying a boat abroad: the paperwork. So. Much. Paperwork. And while we're EU citizens who bought a EU (French) flagged boat in the EU, the different countries each have their own laws, rules and regulations. So there are plenty of hoops to...
What does the name ‘Nalu’ mean?
NALU nah-loo [Hawiaan] noun Wafe / Surf 1. Wave, surf; full of waves; to form waves; wavy, as wood grain. Ke nalu nei ka moana, the ocean is full of waves. hoʻo.nalu To form waves. 2. To ponder, meditate, reflect, mull over, speculate. Nalu wale ihola nō ʻo...
Why The Amel Super Maramu Is Our Ideal Liveaboard Boat
We had a very, very short shopping list when we started looking for our 'liveaboard together' boat: we wanted an Amel Super Maramu. Done. We weren't looking at any other boat. We've both spent years as liveaboards (both being single and as a couple) and we've owned,...