Power Winch

This shows some detail on the power winch modification.  I am using what turned out to be a windlass motor/gearbox.  To mate it up, I needed this coupler (dark piece at bottom), a spacer, not shown, and the light gray flange (between the bronze mount and the coupler) had to be drilled and tapped on a wider spacing.  That is all done and ready to mount.  The winch is installed but some fiberglass work needs to be done to seal off the mounting area. After that I can install the motor-gearbox, contactor relay, deck switch, 100 A breaker, and run the heavy cables to serve it.

Bilge Pumps Complete

I am back from a trip to the west coast.

After completely removing and re-wiring my bilge pumps I was stunned to find them not working properly.  Well, I've fixed everything. It turned out there were two bad circuit breakers, and I also discovered that when power is applied, to the automatic circuits, the pumps run for 6-8 seconds.  I was scratching my head wondering why they came on in an empty bilge.

So--both pumps are mounted, set on automatic, and I have two independent circuits for manual operation.  I can trust my pumps are working--for the time being.  I still would like to update these in the future to a smaller lower pump to remove more water, and a higher volume non-submersible pump, and a also an engine driven high volume pump.