Bay Pelican
Moderator Emeritus
Any dangers I am not seeing in doing this. The concept is to provide a way for someone who does not have access to the inside of the boat to turn on the windlass. Situation envisioned is that the boat is dragging and I am not aboard. Current breaker is inside the boat which is locked when neither of us are aboard. I prefer not to leave the windlass powered when I am at anchor so a good samaritan would have to handle the chain by hand.
The current breaker is at the helm and it would be easy to wire a parallel breaker in the bow locker three feet from the current breaker. Other than the possibility of forgetting to turn off the bow locker breaker I can't see any potential problems.
Any thoughts?
The current breaker is at the helm and it would be easy to wire a parallel breaker in the bow locker three feet from the current breaker. Other than the possibility of forgetting to turn off the bow locker breaker I can't see any potential problems.
Any thoughts?