New boat missing Anchor/Windless. Help me buy a replacement?

[T.R. Bauer]

You have had a lot of good recommendations here. There are a lot of good ways to install the windlass and quite a few wrong ways too. I know about the wrong ways - I usually do it that way according to some people. But I can see you're really into it and committed in my opinion. I think you're going to do a great job. The big things are that you want to seal things up so your core doesn't rot, which is not hard, you don't want to burn your boat down in an electrical fire, and you won't if you put a circuit breaker in the line, you want it to be sturdy and safe, and you want it to work. I don't know your skill level first hand, but on a scale of 1-10 this is close to a 3 when it comes to the technical aspect and somewhere in the middle as far as time involved goes. The biggest time investment will be in waiting for your epoxy to dry. As as the chain goes, I think 25 feet is enough for a CD 22 and more isn't always better given the size of the locker on your boat.

 

[smckean (Tosca)]

...you don't want to burn your boat down in an electrical fire, and you won't if you put a circuit breaker in the line....

Just in the interests of safety, not to be critical......

This statement is not exactly true. A circuit breaker only provides over current protection such as with a direct short; and true, if you have a dead short without a fuse or circuit breaker, you're going to burn something up (at least the wires); but high resistance at a connection, or loss of insulation that allows current to flow, but not enough to trip the breaker, can cause heat and create a fire too. Indeed, my boat had a fire once at the shore power fitting for exactly this reason.

Particularly on a boat, one's connections and wire size must be rock solid. Circuit breakers are not a cure all.

 

[Desert Dory]

I recently added a Lewmar 700 Pro Fish to our C-Dory also.

Nice install - what's the source on that extra switch you added inline for the windlass? I need to add one of those.

That's just a battery on/off switch I found on Amazon. The 50amp breaker that came with the windlass is mounted in the starboard lazarette right next to the start battery.