We had electric Lewmar 43 for Primaries when we bought Persistence. During the delivery I noted that anyone with a tendency to over sheet liked using the electric winches. I quickly turned off the power to the winches before someone broke something. I really did not like the electric winches. When manually using were very stiff. Servicing them was awful. The winch had to be unbolted from the coaming or the motor dropped to get at all the pawls. We had manual Lewmar 43 ST on coachroof. We moved them to coaming as primary and replaced with Lewmar 30ST on coachroof. Then we traded the old Lewmar 43 electric even for new Lemar 40 ST which we use as secondary winches. The entire setup is very much better
The electrics sucked Mike Persistence Halifax, NS -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Gilchrest via CnC-List Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Chuck Gilchrest Subject: Re: Stus-List winches were too powerful? A few years back, I managed a friend's Hylas 54 with Antal electric primary winches (54s maybe?). Once when the owner was on board, he didn't put enough wraps on the winch and fed the jib sheet into the jaws of the self tailer and pushed the button. Managed to bend the line stripper down about 1" (Chrome over bronze I suspect) and until we replaced the stripper and rebuilt the winch, it wouldn't tail properly, especially with smaller line. Large Electric winches can harness some insane leverage and I like my fingers way too much to ever put them on a boat that I own.. Chuck Gilchrest S/V Half Magic 1983 LF 35 Padanaram, MA -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Youngblood via CnC-List Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 4:04 PM To: Rick Brass via CnC-List <[email protected]> Cc: Lee Youngblood <[email protected]> Subject: Stus-List winches were too powerful? To powerful - yea well we did break one of the teeth off on a big triple speed winch on the Frers 41. Not sure if it was a Lewmar or what, but the next week it was gone - to expensive to replace, the secondary winches moved up, and we'd just have to move the spinnaker to the coach house winch like on a smaller boat. On May 27, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Jim Watts via CnC-List <[email protected]> wrote: > I put Lewmar ST48's in place of the original Barients, They work well enough and I have the option of upgrading them to electric when I get too feeble. > I have never heard anyone say that their winches were too powerful. > > Jim Watts > Paradigm Shift > C&C 35 Mk III > Victoria, BC > _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
