by Martijn | 05.12.2024 | Ownership & Maintenance, Sailing Nalu Home
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...
by Martine | 09.11.2024 | Ownership & 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...
by Martine | 15.10.2024 | Ownership & Maintenance
When we bought our Amel Super Maramu (ASM), we weren’t sure if it was possible to convert the saloon table into a (double) bed, but we sure hoped it would be possible. We knew some people changed their saloon table to make it possible, but nothing beats an...
by Martine | 13.09.2024 | Ownership & Maintenance
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,...
by Martine | 26.07.2024 | Ownership & Maintenance
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...
by Martine | 26.07.2024 | Ownership & Maintenance
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...
