He bought the windlass! He bit the bullet, or the winch handle. He finally did it...it's big, powerful, shinny and ELECTRIC! He purchased a brand new Lofrans Tigres windlass and doesn't have to ever pull up an anchor if he doesn't want to... EVER AGAIN. Now his decisions are, one, choose to steer or two, smash on a foot button. He's been on manual labor mode for the 10 years we've been sailing together and anchoring plus all those years BBB. He had hand surgery once and was amazed I could pull up the anchor. "Stttttrrrrrrrrrong woman" he constantly exclaims. He so deserves this! Now all he has to do is install it!

He did sell the Sparkman Stephens he bought at Sailor man last year to Larry on S/V Thunderball. It's nice to know it's being "given away" to some great guy at least. My excessively optomistic announcement on the morning net that the "purists" out there without a windlass, might want to segway into the world of a windlass by slowly with pump, manual variety didn't bear fruit or EC dollars. No American dollars, Euro dollars, nadda.

Right now it's an arm rest and this his Wendy and Doug. It'll be a piece of furniture in our salon for a little while, I'm willing to bet.

Congrats honey!

Your first mate, only mate...Bec