Good day lords ladies and gentlemen and fellow comrades , I have been a lurker for a few years now and have taken the plunge to ask my first question in what I perceive to be the best sailing forum on the web ,
I have taken the unusual step and bought a 1979 42ft aft moody
Ketch designed by Angus primrose to set sail and circumnavigate with no timescale with myself my Wife and daughter , the plan is to set sail in 2020 once the Admiral has finished her PHD in fresh
water ecology , at the moment I am fitting out the
boat to sail around
Scotland and the North Atlantic to get her and the crew ship shape for the journey
So my questions to the community are regarding
winch sizes for the fore sail and the rest of the rig as I am trying to get the
boat set up for short handed sailing , I suffer from a neurological condition M.E and Fibromyalgia which gives me constant pain and fatigue , I was a very fit guy before I came down with this but can still maintain a decent level of fitness although I do have bad days that can lay me flat.
When we depart I will be 49 and the Admiral will be 42 she is a formidable lady who is
training to do triathlons, looks after me our daughter who will be aged 10 2 large
dogs a cat and 10
fish so I don’t see any problems in regards to her strength or stamina , the boat is is need of major upgrades in which I am doing most of it myself , but I have issues with the winches ,
At the moment she is fitted with
Lewmar 2 46STgenoa
Cockpit top
Lewmar 2 8
spinnaker Mast
Lewmar 2 8halyard
Mast
Lewmar 1 6
Halyard mizzen
And her sail area is as follows
Mainsail 26.94m2 = 291sq2
Mizzen 10.03m2 = 108sq2
Foresail 33.80m2 =363sq2
She displaces 11 tonnes and runs on the
perkins 4236
engine , so as I need this boat to be easily handled with 2 and a half mainly on
trade winds but also around the North Atlantic for a few years before heading of,f what do you guys think About the
winch set up , what is the best set up, what size of winches should I fit , were would be best to place these winches , Ideally for shorthanded sailing, are
electric winches the only real alternative or has any one used the
battery operated winch handles , do they have enough torque , and is anyone else cruising with a disability and how do you overcome this, I know there was a Vlog with a gentleman with muscular dystrophy (2 afloat sailing) very inspirational , but would be nice to hear from others .
I have my 70 year Father in law coming over from
California a
delivery skipper in his day with 50 years experience to help with the running
rigging layout but as always its good to have multiple opinions, also after experiencing some shoddy companies were I’m based regarding
marine services I hesitate to get a rigger in as people seem to take advantage a little to much , but if anyone could recommend a good rigger around the Clyde area of
Scotland then I can take that under consideration
Thanks for reading such a long post , if you need any more info on the set up or boat just ask I i will try to answer , although I’m a
dinghy instructor and sailed and cruised for a fair number of years this is the biggest boat I have taken on and suddenly it becomes very important to get it right as my
family are involved.
I have also taken the time to look at the
Harken website and the lewmar website , but get slight confused in regards to the different numbers and
charts for comparison , and I appreciate their are far more intelligent people out there that can understand ratios and
delta curves and trigonometry much better than me , so if possible simple is better for myself to understand, or I will have to get the Admiral involved and that could lead to scientific papers been written on the subject.
Oh
money is not free flowing but I have some
money to spend on the best and right
equipment versus cost
Thanks again