Winches

[Ron173]

Geoff,

not sure on your entire setup but if your taking 200ltrs of fuel I'd say that 540kg all up is going to be light, once you add hull / motor etc.

My winch is rated 900kg, boat / motor full of fuel weighs under 700kg it works fine, but certainly works hard.

I ignored the rolling weight factor, and worked it out on the basic weight as if lifted, if you do that then any relief from a rolling load builds in a greater safety factor.

Ron

[sea raider]

Does anyone know of any other Stainless steel winches with a greater capacity than the one I have found?

Cheers

Geoff

[finding_time]

Geoff

I used to have the strap and mine like yours had a small tear that was starting just near the hook, during the retrieval process one very COLD winters night at about 2am at the scarbrough ramp it broke on the last turn off the winch. The result was a very cold swim in the boat harbour to retrieve my rig. Change the strap now , and spectra rope is the go.

[seatime]

This a Jarrett winch, 6.5 weeks old, already rust on the drum and staining on the strap which will deteriorate it.

does spectra hold moisture like a strap?

[Brumby]

Gelsec, I suspect it does, I checked my drum after reading some of the other posts and it's not looking too pretty any more. I guess I'll give the new one a good squirt with one of the lanolin based sprays before I get it wet. They don't seem to attack synthetics and rubber the way the solvent sprays can. I'm still not going back to cable.

[Chimo]

I had one of those set ups on a 5.6 tinny cuddy I had and the only way to keep it from rusting that I found was to undo the winch when back home rinse off the salt, dry the whole lot and respool before next use. Come to think of it I still have one winch on the 12 ft tinny and i have to do the same with it too.

I think I like the leccy winch with its thick steel cable better tho as all i do with it is hose it off and then a day later drench the wire in a lanoc / metho mix. Its thin enough to drench the whole coil of with andf the meths dries off and leaves the thick lanoc behind.

PS Dno't froegt the laehter gvleos!!

Cimho