![]() ![]() Trying to find that special patch of deep enough sand to bury the anchor can be frustrating. Anchored at Josh Caye, Guanaja, Bay Islands, HondurasĪs we get older, it’s harder and harder to think about re-anchoring over and over to get the anchor to set well in the thin sand over rock in Belize or for that matter, Isla Mujeres. Of course, ever since we added 150 feet of 5/16 high test chain, it’s been a bit more of a struggle to get the chain and 44 lb Spade anchor up than it was when we bought the boat with 30 feet of chain (maybe) connected to nylon rode and a 45 lb CQR. ![]() As we’re spending more time talking to “real” cruisers, we keep hearing stories about how important an electric windlass is and how it can save your boat. Swim Ashore? Anchored Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands), Panamaįast forward 4 years, now we’re ready to leave to go cruising the Northwest Caribbean … Mexico’s Yucatan Coast, Belize and the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. But we were able to get it successfully welded in Canaveral. ![]() We tried to get it welded in New Bern, and although promises were made that it would be good as new when we returned the following month, we were without our windlass on the sail from New Bern to Canaveral Florida. During our first commuter cruise in 2001 - from Annapolis MD to New Bern NC, the manual windlass developed a crack in the cast iron and we couldn’t use it. When we bought Winterlude, our 1985 Passport 37, there was a perfectly functional manual windlass on the bow. ![]()
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