I too am impressed with Lewmar windlass designs. We installed a Lewmar Oceans 2 on Calypso in 1999. It has seen some heavy duty during summer cruises including anchoring between 30ft and 100ft depths with 90' of chain/300' rode and a 60lb CQR anchor. I run the engine when raising the anchor to support the current draw. We use the capstan for hauling my 210lb carcass up the mast during spring maintenance.
After 14 years, the only performance issue is paint flaking off the aluminum gear housing. The gear housing is in my garage now for a new coat of paint. Lewmar's design took service/repair into consideration as the gear housing and motor are easily removed from the capstan/wildcat deck assembly without leaving an open hole on deck. Back in 1992 I had a Lofrans horizontal windlass installed in the anchor locker of a 1980 C&C 36. We added a shelf across the back of the anchor locker to hold the windlass. It was a tight fit but for light duty the combo worked fine. Martin Calypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:42 PM To: CnClist Subject: Re: Stus-List LF 38 anchor wondlass? Frank, I just installed a Lewmar V-2 vertical windlass on an Island Packet 37 on the bowsprit. Probably not similar to your installation but just wanted to say I was impressed with the design and quality of the Lewmar windlass. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Frank Woronkowicz <fworonkow...@gmail.com<mailto:fworonkow...@gmail.com>> wrote: My boat has Yanmar 3QM30 with original added fresh water circ. jabsco pump and Sunrod HEx. overheating on the Chesapeake Bay. I think to replace engine and propeller. Please let me know if any LF owner already did this work and what is approx cost. The second question is windllas type and installation. Did anybody install windlass in anchor compartment? I have her for approx. 20 years and finally these should be done, Thanks Frank Woronkowicz LF 38 s/y Gdynia ANNAPOLIS MD fworonkow...@gmail.com<mailto:fworonkow...@gmail.com>
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