Minney's Yacht Surplus, Costa Mesa, CA has Chromed Lewmar 30 Self Tailing winches for $495. They are the Ocean Series winches. Sounds too good to be true (and therefore I'm cautious). Does anyone have experience with Minney's and their winches?
Minney's STWinches
- Thread starter rbringle
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I good friend and good sailor bought 2 and is convinced they are the real deal. I believe their return policy is "no likey no takee", but check to be sure. Minney's has a good rep out here.
Having first heard about and considered these ST winches on Minney's site at least a year ago (see* below), I am really surprised that at the price I saw back then that they still have some of them them in stock.
Look on eBay: >> Sellers often are asking (expecting) more for second hand 20+ year old no longer manufactured ST winches recovered from a hurricane wrecked boat than Minney's price for a new Lewmar.
I elected not to buy because my current 34 year old OEM ST winch still functions perfectly. And just didn't make sense just to get a new one only for appearance sake. (Simile: -- After 35 years, I love my wife and respect her now even more than when we were both much newer. No way could I possibly swap out ... notwithstanding that a newer model would be quick to observe that my date-of-birth statistic doesn't equate to the expectation of much future duty.)
Reverting back again to the topic of a ST sailboat winch, also I would have had to drill a different mounting hole pattern on my cabin top. Another reason I passed on Minney's very good offer.
* I was interested maybe to purchase only because my perfectly functioning (on the inside) OEM Barient chrome-plated-over-bronze 19ST cabin-top winch looked visually terrible (on the outside) after 35 years on the boat.
Look on eBay: >> Sellers often are asking (expecting) more for second hand 20+ year old no longer manufactured ST winches recovered from a hurricane wrecked boat than Minney's price for a new Lewmar.
I elected not to buy because my current 34 year old OEM ST winch still functions perfectly. And just didn't make sense just to get a new one only for appearance sake. (Simile: -- After 35 years, I love my wife and respect her now even more than when we were both much newer. No way could I possibly swap out ... notwithstanding that a newer model would be quick to observe that my date-of-birth statistic doesn't equate to the expectation of much future duty.)
Reverting back again to the topic of a ST sailboat winch, also I would have had to drill a different mounting hole pattern on my cabin top. Another reason I passed on Minney's very good offer.
* I was interested maybe to purchase only because my perfectly functioning (on the inside) OEM Barient chrome-plated-over-bronze 19ST cabin-top winch looked visually terrible (on the outside) after 35 years on the boat.