Windlass - dumb question

[John T1594]

We just acquired a boat with a powered S-L Sprint 1000 vertical windlass which I am looking forward to using. It has both a drum and a rope/chain gipsy. The owners manual has lots of information except how exactly to use the thing. My dumb question is: when retreiving the anchor, do I feed both the line and then the chair through the gipsy or do I first use the drum for the line and then (try to)slip the chain down onto the gipsy?

 

[Bill Bell]

Just use the gipsy

The gipsy is ment to be used on both rope and chain. You do need to have a rope to chain splice so it will go through the gipsy. The drum on top can be used for other winching jobs.Bill

 

[John T1594]

Thanks

Thanks Bill. I guess that's why they call it a rope/chain gipsy - Duh! The thing looks like it would chew the hell out of the line, especially under load.