Go Windlass

[TheBiscuits]

16 minutes ago, haggis said:

I love my Go Windlass . I haven't used the ratchet much but it is there if I need it. Before I got the Go Windlass my windlass of choice was a long throw aluminium one but I found that the big circles my arm had to make were causing me painful shoulders etc. With the Go Windlass, if it is quite easy paddle gear, I use the inner slot and the reduction in my arm movement has made locking pain free for me again. I love anything which makes life easier! 

 

haggis

 

Interesting.  I use a short throw windlass most of the time, which is less leverage but a lot less arm movement than a standard one.  

 

@Postcode and @cheshire~rose tried it last year after the BCN challenge on Farmer's Bridge locks and didn't like it, but reckoned it was worth 90 seconds a lock ... 

 

[MHS]

Bought Wendy a Go-windlass with the swivel handle for Christmas. She loves it and usually uses the short throw option. The long throw ratchet is useful for those really stiff paddles that need a bit of welly. 

[Arthur Marshall]

56 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Are you getting the revolving handle version?  I tend to prefer "grippy" gloves, which I find good for everything except windlass work - and a revolving handle would solve that problem.

They're only selling the revolting handle niw.

PS I hate writing on tiblets.

Edited July 28, 2020 by Arthur Marshall

[Mike Todd]

There are some locks where a long throw windlass has a problem as there is insufficient clearance above the balance beam to allow it to pass so it has then to be used much as if it were a ratchet windlass. But this is not sufficiently frequently to deter the user on our boat from making it her windlass of choice. Not for me, however.

[Laurie Booth]

12 hours ago, Jo_ said:

I'm a great advocate of the Go Windlass. I love mine - use it all the time. 

Same here, excellent company to deal with.

[wandering snail]

13 hours ago, Rambling Boater said:

and they aren’t magnetic if they fall in. 

Our one is.

[Arthur Marshall]

3 hours ago, wandering snail said:

Our one is.

They're made of steel, so should be magnetical.

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, Arthur Marshall said:

They're made of steel, so should be magnetical.

Only if it is magnetic stainless steel!

[mrsmelly]

Blimey I never realised there was so much to using a winding thing!! 

If I ever have to get off the boat to use one this info will all have come in useful ?

[Arthur Marshall]

1 hour ago, mrsmelly said:

Blimey I never realised there was so much to using a winding thing!! 

If I ever have to get off the boat to use one this info will all have come in useful ?

Some us have mislaid more wives than we have lock keys!

[mrsmelly]

Just now, Arthur Marshall said:

Some us have mislaid more wives than we have lock keys!

Its that bloomin trombone!! 

[system 4-50]

37 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

Some us have laid more wives than we have lock keys!

corrected that for you.

Edited July 29, 2020 by system 4-50

[Arthur Marshall]

3 hours ago, system 4-50 said:

corrected that for you.

Thanks!