Replacing winchesA friend

[frdeluca1]

A friend is replacing his genoa winches. I recommended Lemar 44 self tailers. Opinions?

[hirover]

I replaced the Barient 22's with used Lewmar 43 self tailers. The 43's are more powerful that the Barients and a major plus cranking in the 135% genoa. The self tailing also makes it real easy to single hand as cranking in the Genny is a one handed operation.

So yes I'd reccomend the Lewmar 44's which are probably about the same power as the 43's. Believe the Barient 22's are equivalent to Lewmar 40's.

[spot476]

I'd go for the Anderson ST 46. Loved them!!

[seaner97]

Got my Barlow/barients reconditioned and converted to self trailers. They are now basically new for about 50-75% cost of new, and no fussing with plugging holes or rebedding attachment points. Australian winch company. Very easy.

[warren]

The foam trim that pearson used to fill the gaps between the bulkheads and the cabin ceiling on Seaquel are starting to disintegrate.
Have any other owners have this issue ,and what have you used to fill in the gap ?

[roverhi]

You should start a new thread for this topic.

Have the same problem. I just clean out the old filler and leave it. In most cases you'd have to remove the part, put the new filler in place and reassemble. A lot of work and not practical for the main bulkhead which is the biggest gap offender.

[yellobird]

Warren, I just removed all the rotted "filler" on my boat and replaced it with double braid line (5/16 for the small gaps and 3/8 for the larger ones). I cut the line to exact length, melt the ends nicely and squarely, lay a small bead of construction glue in the gap, then starting at one end, lay the line in the gap, working it towards the other end. The glue I used was pretty sticky and held the line in place from the first contact, but I did use some painters tape every foot or so to mak sure it stayed in place until the glue dried. If you get to a spot where the gap is wider than the rope size ( my bulkheads went from zero to more than 1/2" gap in spots) just gently "bunch up" the outer part of the line to fill up the gap (that's why I used double braid line instead of 3 strand). I ave some pictures, but I'm not sure how to put them there.

[warren]

Yellobird,
Thanks for your suggestion for filling in the gap,I will give it a try. What color line did you use?

[yellobird]

I used white StaSet with red flecks, only because that's what the local WM keeps in stock and I wanted to make sure I could buy it as needed. I think if one got line with flecks that matched their boat canvas (Bimini,dodger, sail cover, etc), that would look cool.

[yellobird]

Here you go Warren, I figured out the picture thing.

[warren]

Thanks for the photos.
It's two degrees in Chapel Hill this morning
Hope to get out to the boat next week and start working on the gap