Steve & Linda, thank you. I have read your books, kept up over the net, and most of all, have enjoyed your cumulative years of sailing wisdom. I singlehand a Columbia 50 and cruise the islands from Palm Beach, Fl. I have decided to install an anchor windlass and I am looking for suggestions. Ideal appeals to me but I am conservative as to the battery usage. Thank you, Dusko Bruer
Hi Dusko: In the last 15 years we’ve only had experience with Maxwell Windlasses. They have served us well and I can’t see a reason to recommend anything else. Can’t give you any first hand data on Ideal. We have never considered battery usage an issue as the engine is almost always on when the anchor is coming up – to maintain good voltage to the windlass motor (even when we are sailing off the hook). Good luck with your cruising – Steve Dashew
Posted by Steve Dashew (November 30, 1999)
