Hi all
My anchor chain keeps jumping off my horizontally-mounted Maxwell 500 windlass gypsy during a drop, even when trying to control the drop-speed using the clutch.
Does it really mean that my only option is to replace the windlass? I am inclined to think I did something wrong - I have only had this boat for a few months, and I only dropped anchor once before - I do not recall any such issue when I did so. Since then, however, I did take the whole chain and rode out from the locker in order to clean it out and length-mark the chain. I am wondering if maybe I did something wrong when I put it back in the locker? Does the chain need to be stored in the locker in a particular way to avoid this? I checked that the chain is not twisted.
Thanks for any advice.