TiggerToo

Sounds like @TiggerToo has the same issue as me. A new windlass with very, very short leads meaning that you need to join the cables in...

as you say, these are *rubbish*: expensive and the pins corrode/break. I went through two of them at the start of my boat ownership...

Yes, to all of that (I have exactly that crimper). If the original cables running back to the solenoid are OK (i.e. not corroded) I...

That'll be a negative and two positives, one for up, one for down. You could crimp terminals on the ends of the tails and on a length...

I had a VERY USEFUL mate (XXS) whom I held upside down in the anchor locker... so I know about the challenges of that. It made a bit of...

My windlass has 2 cables coming from so I put crimp fittings on and then bolted the cables to these. The connection is in a...

That's it. But there are 3 cables, rather than 2. Does anyone have any suggestions for the "covers" of the terminals?

The Cayman 88 has the motor inside the casing as it it is surface mounted on deck. As the OP describes it has 2 cable "tails" rather...

The windlass is/will be a Cayman 88/1000W. The cables (3: +/+/-) are routed from a solenoid ~2m away in a dry box in the forepeak...

It would be helpful to know what the cable arrangements are, before offering any specific suggestions, but, those connectors are crap...

Time has come to replace Tigger's windlass. I am not entirely happy with the existing arrangement for the connections between the...

I read this post with interest. Thanks to all contributors. Good luck with your plans. :cool:

Interesting snippets on the Calstock viaduct and Neeves' comment that 'They don't build them like that anymore' (posts 1&2). There was...

My autumn birthday cruise. Howling off Brixham to we hurried back before it worsened. Peaceful by Calstock viaduct though Tamar in spate...