Winches to Windlasses

This morning I wrote out a list for the men to pick from.  I looked at the schematics for the windlass and thought... it looks way easier than a winch so that should take about 1 hour or so...

I had to go to town to use wifi. I was gone from 10 - 2pm.  When I came back they were still working on the windlass.  (A windlass is the mechanism/machine that we hand crank to pull up the anchor. Many a times Ben is doing this... it is a lot of work!)

In the pictures...Those guys faces look happy but... i'm not so sure... i've heard a few swear words come out of my dad.

There was one screw that would not come out!  I stood around thinking with them... I was so hot and thirsty... i actually had a pop from the boatyards pop machine... normally water will do it but i'm not so hep on the water here.  I'm sure Ben can explain the details....

... as I went to the pop machine to "think"... Ken said, "How are you Pam?"... I frowned and said... we can't get a screw out of the windlass... we have it half stripped... bob sitting next to him said he knew what to do.

When bob got there he asked, "have you tried this?" yes yes "have you tried that?" yes yes "have you dont this?"  the guys proudly continued, "we have tried all the tricks to getting out a tight screw"  Bob ran away and came back with the funniest tool... Both Ben and Dad had seen them before but not me.

It worked!  Now it was getting to 6ish.  The three-some (dad, Ben and me) cleaned the differential (gear thingies) and put it all back together except that - well - it didn't work so I said, "Let's go out to dinner to cheer you guys up for working so hard on a project all day!" And so we did.... plus I did not feel like cooking!

tomorrow we will take it apart and put it back together.  It was really good we did this so if the windlass falls apart we know how to put it back together.  I love things like that.  I don't like electrical  -  don't get me started on that!  i'll cry my more woes on a different day.

here are pictures.  I love pictures. I'm sure Ben can explain better the day than I can.
peace Pam