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Thanks for the response. My anchor locker is very deep and wraps around the mast entirely. The problem for me is there is so little room on deck anywhere near the hawse pipes that direct the chain into the locker. The windlass might be able to go near the existing ones and the cleats and mast, if it...

Has anyone fitted a windlass, either electric or manual, to a 33 cat ketch? Where did you locate it? I am a single sailor and find I can't pull my anchor in much of a breeze and so am considering putting in a windlass. Pictures would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thanks to the two people who answered.My apologies for not looking back here and seeing the responses. I have tracks on my masts so the wrap-arounds would not be too convenient to change. There is a good sail maker or two in the Rio Dulce, Guatemala, and I will the one I am familiar with see if it i...

Anyone with one for sale? Anyone know where I can have one made in North America as first choice, Europe as second choice?

is there anyone any of you can suggest? I would like to get it ordered from Canada and shipped there for next season down here in Guatemala. Last boat had sails held up three months! with a Guatemalan customs slow down, so I do not want to repeat that, twiddling thumbs as the good weather goes by.

My new-to-me, 1981, 33 cat ketch has of course little room in the bow. The small bowsprit, which is just for the two anchors, fills the space in the bow forward of the mast. There are two hawse pipes, one for each anchor, down to the chain locker aft of the mast and one cleat. To me the cleat doesn'...

I have just purchased "Distant Drummer", a Freedom 33 Mark 11, I think a 1981, designed by J Paris. She is in Guatemala where she has been mostly in marinas for 12-15 years. Not sure of her hull number but will try to find it to add to my signature. Helped her previous owner take her to Belize this ...