Simple Simon wrote:

Only an idiot turns a winch 360 degrees so he can
fall overboard doing it or lose the handle overboard.

As opposed to the idiot who mounted the bimini so that the sheets cannot be led fair to the winch, nor the
winch handle turned....

Anyone who actually sailed would have forseen this problem.

As I said, it hardly matters on a boat that never sails anyway.

DSK