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Old 12-17-2015, 01:51 PM   #57
Marin
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Originally Posted by manyboats View Post
So many winches have a gypsy to stbd and a drum to port w the gypsy lined up w the bow roller. What would anybody do w the drum? It's so far off center engaging the bow roller and (or with) the winch drum well to port seems not doable to me.

Our Lofrans Tigres is set up this way and it works perfectly for what we use it for. We use all chain rode so having the wildcat lined up with the pulpit rollers is essential.

The line gypsy to port is positioned perfectly for hauling our trip line when we use one. We feed the line through the port bow hawse where it comes to the line gypsy at a very slight angle. So very easy to wrap around the drum and tail it while operating the windlass with the foot switch.

When we do this we slack off the friction clutch on the wildcat so it doesn't turn while we are hauling in on the trip line.

There have been a couple of times when we've deployed our stern anchor, a Fortress FX-23 on a combination rode, and later had the wind do a 180 so the boat was hanging on the stern anchor which dug it in real good. It proved impossible to pull by hand so we simply carried the rode up to the bow, disconnected from the mooring buoy we were using and let the boat swing around to hang from the bow on the stern anchor.

We then did the same as we do with the trip line: fed the stern anchor's rode though the port bow hawse and used the line gypsy to haul the anchor up. When the chain appeared I simply hauled that and the now-free anchor up by hand, and easy job since the Fortress is so light.
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