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Skip,
I was wondering why you were replacing your Lewmar 1000. I just so happen to have a Lewmar 1000, vert/drum/gypsy windlass. I purchased it new many years ago for my Ingrid 38 (13-14 ton) building project. Since I launched only ~4 years ago, I have only used it for 3 seasons of cruising. Mostly opting for anchorages rather than marinas. Maybe 200 drops and recoveries. My self: I have always had a problem getting it to start it's initial free-fall. After the 35lb anchor and 30ft of chain are over the roller, it is fine. As a result, I initially was releasing the friction discs too much and in the second season, one of them jammed and broke in several pieces. The solution I have resorted to, get the first shot of chain started, is to "power down" this doesn't work well on this windlass because the release screw in the motor-to-drum shaft backs out in ccw rotation. Aside from that, I have found it to be a very powerful and reliable windlass. Sure beats a manual windlass. I will refrain from commenting on rope-chain drums, S/L rope chain splices. My thoughts and opinions, FWIW. Steve s/v Good Intentions "Skip Gundlach" wrote in message ups.com... Some of you may be aware that we had to saw out the old one in the course of trying to service our antique Lewmar 1000 vertical drum/gypsy windlass (follow the link in the sig - and follow the comments on the first page - to see what's up with the refit). So, we are in the market for a (similar) replacement. We've had the opportunity to review the survey of Seven Seas Cruising Association members on the subject. After replacement of the rotted substrate and repair of the surface, we expect installation to be pretty straightforward. Our boat is 45' LOD with fairly substantial overhangs fore and aft; it's got a design weight of 33000# and an anticipated real weight closer to 40k, after final loading and provisioning. We currently have a 20kg Bruce, a Chinese knockoff of same design and weight, forward, both all chain, and a 34# Fortress with mostly rope rode. We'd sort of like to move up one grade in anchors, but it's not a critical event at this juncture in our refit. Unfortunately for us, our boat appears to be right in the middle of the high or low end of most of the various different classes of vertical windlasses available, at least based on boat length. Having had a replacement motor in my hand at the local WM Bargain Center, I agree with the assessment of the Lewmar Sprint series, which is that they're not worth having. We also know that prices vary all over the map; what is quoted on one site may be double that of another. So, "street price" is what matters in the end. So, given a gypsy/drum arrangement on a vertical windlass with a chain pipe (automatically feeds the chain below), and a street price of under or very close to $2k, who's replaced theirs recently with something like that, and what's been the experience? Thanks. L8R Skip, rehabbing (well, waiting to rehab) and champing at the bit to get back to refitting Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 - the vessel as Tehemana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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Hi, Steve, and group,
"Steve" wrote in message ... Skip, I was wondering why you were replacing your Lewmar 1000. I replaced it because I had to saw it out. With us about to go out for life, and it totally corroded, though working successfully the last dozen times we used it, we wanted to take it out for servicing. However, it was totally frozen, and attempts to unfreeze it broke it (see my last couple of photo galleries for examples of what we faced - the ones for July). So, we finally sawed it out, and are in the process of deck repair (very minor, cosmetic stuff) and undergirding replacement (more rot as found in numerous places aboard). Steve, if you need some parts, the only destruction done was the gearbox and support aluminum, as well as having to saw the shaft in half. The motor seems fine, we have two (3/8 and 5/16) gypsies and one full set of clutch media in addition to everything else you see in some of the other pix. I know clutches are problematic, though one could probably size-match them for something which would work, as there are no parts for this windlass available NIS; the other stuff you'd have to use an awful lot to wear out, I'd think. As I never dropped the anchor, but motored it down, and from the looks of it, likewise the prior owner, the clutches look new (one is, in fact, new, being in the spare gypsy box, the other small one having broken when I was separating them)... How's your project coming?? L8R Skip, rehabbing (well, waiting to rehab) as fast as I can in order to get back to refitting -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:00:19 -0400, Larry wrote:
Paul L wrote in : Practical Sailor mag just did a writeup and test on the smaller windlasses. The October issue will have tests on the mid-range windlasses. Paul SV Jeorgia Does it say "This windlass sucks! Don't buy this awful product!", or does it say what boat magazines always say that every advertiser's, or potential advertiser's products are just wonderful and you can't live without them? Haven't read Practical Sailor, Larry? G They frequently condemn companies outright by describing exactly how fast they went to rat**** when tested in the real world. They take zero advertising, which is why I buy it. I don't always agree with them, but I haven't had a bum steer yet in marine products. R. |
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rhys wrote in
: Haven't read Practical Sailor, Larry? G They frequently condemn companies outright by describing exactly how fast they went to rat**** when tested in the real world. They take zero advertising, which is why I buy it. I don't always agree with them, but I haven't had a bum steer yet in marine products. R. I've already been properly flogged on this issue.....You're too late...(c; -- Larry |
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