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After six months and roughly 5,000 miles aboard the Amel 50 Mirage, Vlad brings the boat to the Amel service center in Martinique for warranty repairs and scheduled maintenance.Watch The warranty repair list covers about a dozen minor interior issues: a fallen trim piece, two dislodged cover caps, a berth platform latch that no longer holds, a failed refrigerator compressor (with an estimated €300 in spoiled food), a loose handle, a second refrigerator that stopped closing properly, three soap dispensers that came unglued, a decorative panel that delaminated, a cabin door that opens on its own underway, a sliding roof seal that partially detached, a deck light that lowers electrically but will not raise, a broken component Vlad declines to explain, a protruding bolt and squeaking spring on the boom vang, a stiff port-side winch, water intrusion into the forward sail lockers, and a squeaking mainsheet traveler audible from the aft cabin while sleeping.0:52 Scheduled 200-hour service already completed includes engine oil, fuel filters, impeller, transmission oil and filter, and a Raycore filter change.6:52 Still pending: generator service, a full standing and running rigging inspection, inner forestay and mainsail luff tension adjustments, and a solar panel output check — the two 800-watt stern panels appear to be producing well under capacity.7:26

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