rsmith
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 50' CONV -Series I (1966 - 1969)
The windlass is Ideal. The solenoids are mounted in the chain locker and it appears to be the oem setup - no box and no appearance that there ever was a box. As I said earlier, the wiring and presence of the 4 solenoids is as shown on the oem wiring diagram. I ASSUME that the breaker, which is mounted just above the chain locker door and is visible from the cabin, was added by the PO since it is not shown in the wiring diagram for the boat. It is not the Ideal breaker box which Ideal sells separately.
The PO had grandkids aboard a lot and I made the assumption that he had the breaker added as a switch to be able to conveniently shut off power to the windlass so the kids couldn't activate it. He told me that twice they pulled the manual fire extinguisher handle...
"The PO had grandkids aboard a lot"
Some of the worst kids I've ever seen.LOL
