T&T: Another thought on anchors, windlasses and washdown systems

[Bob McLeran]

The old Maxwell on Sanderling would free fall drop the anchor - all you 
had to do was to loosen the clutch using the attached bars. It was a 
vertical windlass. I don't know if the current Maxwell windlass will do 
the same; I needed a horizontal windlass as a replacement to get the 
chain to fall into the correct location in the chain locker, so only 
looked at the horizontal variety.

We're now northbound and have used the new windlass (Lofrans Tigres) and 
chain (5/16") half a dozen times since installing it. It's a thing of 
beauty and a joy forever! Never has anchoring and de-anchoring been so easy.

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Bob McLeran and Judy Young               Manatee Cove Marina
MV Sanderling                            Patrick Air Force Base
DeFever 41 Trawler                       Melbourne, Florida     
Blog: http://sanderlingcruise2009.blogspot.com/
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On 6/1/2009 10:58 AM, R C Smith Jr wrote:
> describe above. I do not think there are any free-drop vertical windlasses,
> are there?