“I’ll make some winch covers! How hard can they be?”, I thought. Ha. By the time I was finished I had thrown away the first three, still wasn’t entirely satisfied with the remaining five, and had taken to calling them “*$#@%%* winch covers!”
Much to our pleasant surprise, Pegu Club came with five winches that had clearly been upgraded from her original stock winches. They are all oversized and self-tailing, and the two largest are two-speed winches. Two-speed winches have a high and low gear which allows you to crank the lines in a lower gear (by reversing the cranking direction) as it becomes more difficult. Buying them all new would approach $3,000, something we never would have done. Her original winches would have been fine, but the bells and whistles on these are certainly nice to have.
Now bear in mind that as far as I can tell, a winch cover is truly unnecessary. Sure, I didn’t like how rainwater would just stay in the hole for the winch handle but it’s not like it was going to hurt the winch. Heck, Little Bristol was built in 1975 and had her original winches – likely never covered – and they were fine. Nope, I just wanted to make them because I thought it would look spiffy. Continue reading “I don’t think you could pay me to make these again…”
Adventures on the Club 