My P335 already misses the central cleat as the previous owner had a cable coming out there. This cable is connected to a winch in the starboard aft part of the chain locker. The cable can be used in combination with the spinnaker pole and stabilizing lines to top spreaders to lower the mast without a crane. There is also a hinge beneath the foot of the mast.

I thought I would come back with some progress so far on the Windlass. My friend who is a mechanic has been helping me a lot as I am not very gifted in this department. We decided on aft of the anchor well, there is just too much other stuff in the way at the front of it.

Below are some photos

The Windlass is a Lewmar Pro Series Windlass 1000. This was wired into the same power and breaker as my Bowthruster as I am never going to be using both at the same time.

This is a work in progress as we are still figuring things out. Any advice you may have will be very gratefully received.

Went out sailing on Sunday and also got to test it out. It worked very well, but still have a few snags to sort.

1. Fitted a second bow roller to get the anchor offset and away from the jib furler. However, I need one that goes further forward of the boat as the anchor sits very close to the hull. I would prefer one that the anchor sits in and can be locked down ideally. Although this option does allow for the anchor to be removed and put in the anchor well.

2. As you can see, the chain is currently sitting over the top of the lid of the anchor well. I have not figured out how to best deal with this. Other boats I have had, the windlass was down in the well, so it pulled it the chain down on an angle into the well. I am guessing others have figured this out, please can you share your ideas.

The only thing I can think of to get the chain going down is a 90 degree old school hawse pipe, then maybe round some sort of pulley inside the locker. But all these additional complexities might just cause more trouble than they are worth.

It may be better to have the convenience of putting the anchor in the locker until needed.

I don't know about others but I prefer to keep my anchor in the locker anyway; the chain from the windlass fits inside one of those raised lumps on the back edge of the lid. Simply leave the anchor dangling a few inches below the bow roller when raising it, then you can pick it up and wriggle it bewteen the foresstay and the pulpit and put it in the locker (if you have left enough space by keep the chain over to one side...). You do have to keep the lid open when raising it, but you need to anyway so you can flake the chain.

Hope that helps

Peter

We tried it properly for the East coast trip to the Airshow and that’s exactly what I did.

I was going to upgrade to a heavier anchor, but decided against it and to be fair the 12kg seemed to hold us fine, although it was fairly calm.

It is very useful that it fits through the gap of the pulpit and can be tucked away when on the move.

I am still looking for a better bow roller, which needs to be offset to work with the Genoa. I should add that as the current roller has no top guide, you do need to be perfectly lined up, otherwise it jumps off the roller. But I assume you can’t have one of those, if you want to remove the anchor and place in the locker.