Which electric windlass?

[memerys]

Having decided to fit an electric windlass on our 34' Westerly I'm gathering as much info as I can on Lewmar, Lofran and Quick products.
However, to help the decision making process can anyone point me in the direction of any product tests/evaluations/comparisons completed in the past couple of years, either on-line or in any magazines?
Thanks in anticipation!

 

[tome]

Hello Ray

I notice that you are a new user so welcome along. There have been several similar posts recently, and the consensus seems to favour the Lofrans products. If you do a search I'm sure you'll find plenty on here

Cheers
Tom

 

[chasroberts]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

For what it's worth, I agree with the Lofrans comments. We have a Tigres on our 36' Southerly and (touch wood) we are very pleased with it.

Chas

 

[memerys]

Thanks for that, Lofrans certainly seem to have the best range - all I have to do now is get one out to Turkey!

 

[rby]

try the local windlass made in TURKEY.the are good too.cost half.

 

[gianenrico]

She is the Lady to contact:

lidia.brustia@lofrans.it

Arranging Fed EX or other shipment to your port should be no problem.
I bought from them a very helpul wireless control box with chain counter: IMHO one of the most helpful pieces of equipment.
Cheers

 

[GMac]

PowerBoat Reports in the US did a range of tests on winches a year or so back. One year was Verticals and the next horizontals. We are in the same game and thought they were well thought out and run tests which covered max pull, running speeds, power use and so on.

From memory:
Verticals
Maxwell cleaned up
Lofrans comforably second
then Quick
a few in the middle
Simpson Lawrance and
Muir at the bottom end.

Horizontals
Maxwell again
Simpson Lawrance Horizon series and Lofrans second equal.
Quick did well as well.

The basic gist was Maxwell were the only ones to meet or exceed their published numbers. None of the others did by small amounts and some were miles off.

We rate Auto R2C (rope to chain) winches in the following order i.e our personal choice based on all the fedback we get
Maxwell
Lofrans
Quick
Lewmar

Saying that the differance between Lofrans and Quick is very very tiny. We do like the Lofrans over the Quick purely due to looks really.

Hope that helps rather than hinders /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif