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Yes, but you're forgetting to add the load on the fixed end of the line. 
In Response To: I don't think so ()
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- help for old cruisers
- A few answers....
- Electric Winch
- A few thoughts about that
- If you have the money....
- I have been watching and taking notes on this for future reference
- A few comments
- A couple rowed up to us last weekend to say they'd sailed to Maine on my boat, in 1966.
- A windlass install isn't a big deal...
- We have two electric windless's on the bow. One for each anchor and
- Gallows
- Consider a cordless winch driver
- Probably a dumb thought but...
- Catamarans do it all the time.....
- A lot of line!
- Not a dumb thought. It's "standard" with boats that have full-batten mainsails
- We've had two sailboats which came with fully battened mains and don't have that rig.
- While you are right about the line...
- I don't think so
- Yes, but you're forgetting to add the load on the fixed end of the line.
- Yes, but you're forgetting to add the load on the fixed end of the line.
- I don't think so
- I'll vote with Larry on this one...
- Huh????....
- There is a right answer...
- Not quite...
- Aw comon! You left out....
- You guys need to check your physics...
- Aw comon! You left out....
- Not quite...
- There is a right answer...
- Huh????....
- Catamarans do it all the time.....
- Another use for the windlass
- Not age - a question of strength and agility.
