Maxwell RC8-8

[kmacdonald]

Anyone have experience with a Maxwell RC8-8 windlass? After adding 90 feet of 5/16" chain and a properly sizes anchor, its hard to manually pull the anchor up in all but shallow water. I never had an issue with all rode and undersized anchor but I feel my luck was running out.

[rslifkin]

I've got the bigger brother HRC10-8 and have been happy with it. It handles a rope/chain splice (5/16" chain, 5/8" 8 plait line) quite well. As long as your total ground tackle weight is under 330 lbs (25% of rated working load for the windlass) it should be plenty adequate for your needs.

[smj]

We used an RC-6 windlass with 80’ 1/4” G4 spliced to 1/2” three strand and a 45lb anchor for 5 years, worked great and never had a problem.