Persistence came to us with Electric Lewmar 43ST winches for the primaries. There were no secondaries. For cruising ease the primaries had been located where secondaries normally would be and the mounting locations for the original primaries were faired and painted over. The second set of manual Lewmar 43ST winches were mounted on the cabin top for use as halyard winches. THIS WAS WAY OVERKILL!
ST43 as halyard winches way larger than necessary. Jib trimmers facing backward to trim genoa was awkward to say the least. So we moved the cabin top Lewmar 43ST back to the original primary location and replaced cabin top halyard winches with Lewmar 30ST (Ocean series I believe) This still left us with electric Lewmar 43 ST. First of all an electric winch can be nasty. An inexperienced trimmer can damage the headsail using one. We always had the switches turned off and used as a manual winch. Secondly these were AWFUL to maintain. To service the winches the motor has to be dropped from beneath before the drums can come off to clean and lubricate the gears, pawls, etc ... Due to this and due to the lack of accessibility from beneath to do this these winches were rarely serviced and never properly. When running the spinnaker on these secondaries they were stiff and made spin handling more problematic than it should be (due to the lack of east servicing). In the end we traded these to someone with a pilothouse 44 foot boat for a set of new Lewmar 40 ST that are far superior for our purposes. On top of the ease of servicing and better sizing for the boat removing the motors took away a LOT of unnecessary weight Just a story I thought I would share We are very happy with all of our Lewmar winches BTW Mike Hoyt Persistence Halifax, NS From: nausetbeach--- via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 3:23 PM To: 'Stus-List' <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: nausetbe...@optonline.net Subject: Stus-List Re: Winch Size for C&C34 Some other thoughts: For whatever you decide, believe both WM and Defender have BOGO days on winches during the year which could help reduce the wallet pain. Electric winches are more than a little $ more. Have heard / read good things about Some other thoughts: For whatever you decide, believe both WM and Defender have BOGO days on winches during the year which could help reduce the wallet pain. Electric winches are more than a little $ more. Have heard / read good things about the "eWincher" as a viable alternative for people who do not want to make the investment in electric winches. Brian
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