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Beginner’s Guide to Fitting a New Winch….!!

If it’s your first time refitting or replacing a winch, this document was written to provide you with a bit more context for the job ahead.

In the event that you are lucky, it will simply be a like-for-like replacement – pop it all back together, everything is exactly as out was before ….. and go sailing!!

Quite possibly you might feel the need to adjust the transmitter to cope with the new winch being aboard. This was my case too. May I suggest that in addition to printing this guide, you also print the guide for “Installing a New Transmitter”

Click this link below for the Guide to Installing the New Winch

The guide for replacing or fitting a New Transmitter can be found here

RMG Winch and Drum Setup on a One Metre (K2)

This is all somewhat daunting at first, especially for the newcomer.

However, this a is a great little video on RMG setup in a K2. The principles are clear and if you watch carefully, there are great little incidental learnings along the way.