Being unable to find any ideas for mounting a horizontal windlass on a 1983 C30, I gave it some thought and came up with what you see in the attached photo's. I'm pleased to say it works very well. Our rode is made up of 250 ft of 9/16 3 strand nylon line and 30 ft of 5/16 BBB chain, when retrieveing the anchor the line coils itself very neatly (unassisted) in the locker and the chain drops nicely into the middle of the coil.
The windlass and the fwd bow rail stanchions are bolted through the bow sprit, through the deck, and through a large backing plate. The bracket under the bowsprit is fastened at the bow using the bolts that hold the forestay bracket to the hull and by a "U" bolt at the tip of the bowsprit. The length of the bowsprit depends on the size of the anchor, our 33lb Bruce has a long shank requiring a bit more overall length. We are fortunate in that it extends only 2 1/2 inches past the bow rail, any further and it may of impacted our berthing fees.
I suspect this method could be employed on other Catalina models that have a similar anchor locker arrangement. Hopefully someone out here will find this info usefull.
Echo Gulf
The windlass and the fwd bow rail stanchions are bolted through the bow sprit, through the deck, and through a large backing plate. The bracket under the bowsprit is fastened at the bow using the bolts that hold the forestay bracket to the hull and by a "U" bolt at the tip of the bowsprit. The length of the bowsprit depends on the size of the anchor, our 33lb Bruce has a long shank requiring a bit more overall length. We are fortunate in that it extends only 2 1/2 inches past the bow rail, any further and it may of impacted our berthing fees.
I suspect this method could be employed on other Catalina models that have a similar anchor locker arrangement. Hopefully someone out here will find this info usefull.
Echo Gulf
