Side power anchor windlass jammed with anchor rope






This windlass is installed on a axopar 37 Cabin.

There was problem since the installation, boat owner even lost an anchor, I'm not sure why...

Went for inspection on 2018/10/08, the rope is jammed on the disk.

rope turns a full round, and jammed the windlass

the other angle

It seems the problem is the spacing between the deflector(black one) and the inner disk(on the right)

You have to unmount the outer disk, then release the jammed rope.

we first installed the rope guide, which was missing during last installation.

try again, it jammed again.

The cause is still the same, too much space between deflector and inner disk.

The deflector is not at center of 2 disks.

it's really off centered
This is how it stated in the manual.

It seems that the bracket is not fitting to the left...
We have adjust the bracket and get it to the most left position.


We have adjust the rope guide bracket, but only get couple mm of improvement.
In my point of view it still off centered.


we also adjust the angle, then test seems be ok.



We have tested with boat owner, also with remote control. it seems fine, after we left, boat owner go for sea trial, then it jammed again.


I believe the cause is the same, but I have put the bracket close to inner disk as possible, no more space to adjust the deflector position.
Not sure if the size of deflector is correct or not,the spacing shown on the manual seems impossible for the set we have on boat.

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