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Winch Servicing and Repairs…

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Our winches take a bit of a pasting, don’t they – really hard working pieces of the boat. Having a winch you can maintain is an important subject.

At the weekend, the very important subject of winch servicing and repair came up. I guess in our fleet we are pretty evenly split between RMG and Stinger.

The key piece of advice is to always keep your MYA Members Year-book on hand. In there, you will find the UK companies supporting the various winch manufacturers. For myself, I’ve had great support on my Stinger winches from K7yachts. Contact details are all in the MYA year-book.

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

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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

Click to access sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-fitting-a-new-winch.pdf

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

Click to access sailing-beginners-guide-pdf-version-to-installing-a-new-transmitter-v1-aug-2024.pdf