The windlass and house have always been connected directly to the battery (and led varying distances to their respective circuit breakers). I am adding *additional* fusing/protection at the battery, in order to comply with ABYS. The ANL along with an MRBF seem to be good ways to accomplish this given the tight space.
Also, for the first time I am running the SSB directly to the battery (it used to go through the house panel) so I need to protect that one near the battery too (it also has 30A fuses downstream which I will leave in place).
So I am simply trying to protect all three of these runs with two (or if necessary three) *additional* fuses at the battery so that there will be no unprotected lengths. I should probably go with the highest fuse rating possible, while still protecting the wire, so that the regular circuit breakers trip first.
Brian, good question, I have a Lofrans 1000 windlass, I thought the dedicated windlas switch I bought from them was 100A but I need to double check that.