Portable Electric Winches
Posted: March 29th, 2017, 11:15 pm
I sometmes have to recover boats & their launching trollies out of the lake up about a 1 in 6 launch ramp.
Smaller boats are easy, especially when there are other people to help but the safety boat with engine or some of he bigger dinghies like a 15 ft wayfarer are a different matter, particularly if less careful sailors have managed to get a fair bit of water in them. I'm guessing that a dinghy and launch trolley weight about 250kg and maybe 400kg if its been swamped.
I've got away with sticking a chain on my tow hitch in the past but if I'm on my own I tend to move 6 inches, get out, walk to the back, check everything and then go and do another 6 inches and so on.
I've spotted portable electric winches on ebay from about £60 upwards and wonder if anyone has used them and are they worth having?
Smaller boats are easy, especially when there are other people to help but the safety boat with engine or some of he bigger dinghies like a 15 ft wayfarer are a different matter, particularly if less careful sailors have managed to get a fair bit of water in them. I'm guessing that a dinghy and launch trolley weight about 250kg and maybe 400kg if its been swamped.
I've got away with sticking a chain on my tow hitch in the past but if I'm on my own I tend to move 6 inches, get out, walk to the back, check everything and then go and do another 6 inches and so on.
I've spotted portable electric winches on ebay from about £60 upwards and wonder if anyone has used them and are they worth having?
