[Public-List] Winch Pedestal on Cabin Top?

[George Dinwiddie via Public-List]

When I bought Calypso, the main halyard was lead to that. Since I need 
to go forward when reefing, anyway, I now use the mast winch for the 
main halyard, and lead both the jib and spinnaker halyards back to that 
winch.

  - George

On 5/28/16 9:39 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List wrote:
> That pad is for an optional main sheet winch...  Some boats had the main
> sheet tail run along the boom to the mast, round a turning block to another
> similar block and so aft to the cockpit.  It was a way of getting the main
> sheet crew forward in the cockpit.
>
> I find it's a convenient place to put my coffee cup when sticking my head
> out the companionway when at quiet anchorages...
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
>
> On 2016-05-28, 9:23 PM, "Daniel Swords via Public-List"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> My boat, #525, has what appears to be a pedestal for a small winch molded into
>> the cabin top fiberglass on the starboard side of the sliding hatch. I am just
>> curious what a winch in that location would be used for?  Or is there
>> something else that might attach to the cabin top there?
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