Many reports of 3 strand operating poorly with this windlass. Don't see your windlass listed? Give us your windlass model and we'll try our best to help. Please confirm with your windlass manual. Notes: All specifications are listed as a guide only. We also checked the Maxwell unit with the 3-strand rope to see if any differences were apparent.Requirements can vary, even for the same model of windlass, so always confirm the listed dimensions with your windlass manual. Quick did not provide a rode, so to maintain consistency we tested it with the New England 3-strand. Maxwell Marine also supplied a New England rope with 20 feet of chain attached, but it was an 8-plait nylon instead of 3-strand. Lewmar provided a section of New England Premium 3-strand with 20 feet of chain.
We wanted to test those claims, and also record ampere draw during certain tests.Įach unit was tested with the rode provided by the manufacturer. How We Tested Nearly every unit made claims for no-load speed, working load speed, and maximum pull. One windlass, the Muir, slipped over that price limit. To round out the field, we purchased the horizontal Quick Genius at West Marine. Maxwell Marine sent its Freedoma vertical windlass. Lewmar sent Practical Sailor four units: two verticals from the Sprint series, the andand a pair of horizontals, the Horizon and GD. The field consisted of four verticals and five horizontals. What We Tested We scanned the windlass market for units specifically designed and priced for smaller boats, whose owners might be interested in mounting a windlass aboard for the first time-and found nine candidates. On a horizontal windlass, the motor is generally abovedecks we have an exception here and the rode comes over the top of the gypsy and then down. With a vertical axis windlass, the motor is mounted belowdecks, and its rode wraps around the gypsy for at least degrees and then drops through the deck. Many, if not most, heavy-displacement cruising sailboats carry windlasses on the foredeck, but the decision whether to mount one on a smaller, lighter boat has to be based on several factors, including the size and type of anchor and rode used a lb.Ī windlass is categorized as horizontal or vertical. Around here, one test often leads to another.
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