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Mounting a winch

Posted By: Tom Ray
Date: 6/4/08 5:27p.m.

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In Response To: Vicki: For yrs. we raced our 8 meter sloop in S.F. Bay. (pic) (geneWj,First Born & Teacher's Pet III. Bradenton,Fl.)

I think the whole point of little boats is to escape winches, but that's beside the point.
The Sun Cat has an interior liner which wasn't designed to hold a winch, so I'd cut the liner or use an extra large backing plate if you leave the liner in place.
You'll have to abandon use of the spinlock for the throat halyard, as there's no way to put a winch behind it. If I were to put a winch on a Sun Cat, I'd put it forward of the inboard cleat in this picture, just ahead and to starboard of the peak halyard spinlock.

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Messages In This Thread

For Vicki -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/3/08 12:22p.m.

Photo #2 -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/3/08 12:28p.m.

Woooo, !!This Is Smart, And..... -- Gerald Donaldson -- 6/6/08 5:36p.m.

Photo #3 -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/3/08 12:32p.m.

Okay, Dick, so you have the gooseneck pinned -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/3/08 6:41p.m.

I do what Dick does a little differently -- Tom Ray -- 6/4/08 3:47a.m.

Pulling the pin -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/4/08 11:10a.m.

When you say "downhaul," do you mean the -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/4/08 1:25p.m.

Yes -- Tom Ray -- 6/4/08 5:47p.m.

Gotcha. My dealer called it a Cunningham the -- Winch Wench -- 6/5/08 1:21p.m.

Downhaul -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/4/08 7:17p.m.

Dick, what a simple arrangement. -- Winch Wench -- 6/5/08 1:32p.m.

Hoisting -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/4/08 11:08a.m.

Dick, since you often sail on San Francisco Bay, -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/4/08 1:52p.m.

Vicki, you can also sail back into the wind -- Carl, Horizon Cat/Picnic Cat, Central Texas -- 6/4/08 2:45p.m.

Carl, honestly the two times the sail filled while -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/4/08 4:13p.m.

Vicki: For yrs. we raced our 8 meter sloop in S.F. Bay. -- geneWj,First Born & Teacher's Pet III. Bradenton,Fl. -- 6/4/08 3:09p.m.

The picture is Beautiful, now U need one of her under sail -- geneWj,First Born & Teacher's Pet III. Bradenton,Fl. -- 6/4/08 3:12p.m.

Gene, I had a couple photos of me in the boat, -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/4/08 4:22p.m.

Gene, anything that makes my life in that boat -- Vicki's Secret -- 6/4/08 4:17p.m.

Mounting a winch -- Tom Ray -- 6/4/08 5:27p.m.

Tom, as you say, I probably don't need a winch. -- Winch Wench -- 6/5/08 1:41p.m.

Hi Vicki -- Jim B., Yellowstone -- 6/4/08 6:45p.m.

Jim, your points: -- Winch Wench -- 6/5/08 1:56p.m.

Re: the ice situation... -- Jim B., Yellowstone -- 6/5/08 6:40p.m.

Good luck to you, Jim. This isn't as big as what -- Winch Wench -- 6/6/08 9:22a.m.

Good story -- John- Suncat "Wanderer" in Ontario Canada -- 6/6/08 10:43a.m.

Shucks, John... -- Jim B., Yellowstone -- 6/6/08 6:16p.m.

Standing in the companionway -- Tom Ray -- 6/6/08 12:37p.m.

Thanks, Tom... I understood that companionway -- Winch Wench -- 6/6/08 7:22p.m.

the dagnabits -- Dick Herman, Muddy Duck -- 6/4/08 8:07p.m.

And just what makes you think I didn't run off all -- Winch Wench -- 6/5/08 2:13p.m.

When U'r my age U say thank U Mr. Printer. LOL!! -- geneWj,First Born & Teacher's Pet III. Bradenton,Fl. -- 6/5/08 3:19p.m.

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