Boat Maintenance

Hit by Lightning … Repairing and Preparing

by Martine | 02.05.2025 | Boat Maintenance

It’s already the 2nd of May – time is flying by! We arrived on Samos on April 22nd and were met at the airport by our friends M&F. They stayed until April 28th, and helped us repair the damage we soon discovered. Nalu was very likely indirectly hit by...

Preventive Engine Maintenance – Part 2

by Martine | 15.03.2025 | Boat Maintenance

This is the follow-up to this blogpost: Preventive Engine Maintenance – Part 1, so you may want to read that one first if you haven’t already. In this post, we’ll look at how the turbo and fuel injector pump rebuild went and how we ended up with two...

Preventive Engine Maintenance – Part 1

by Martine | 05.12.2024 | Boat Maintenance

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...

Fitting a Rocna 40 on an Amel Super Maramu

by Martine | 09.11.2024 | Boat Maintenance

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...