Main winches on the CSY 44.

[Patrick of M]

I was wondering if someone could quickly tell me the size of the 4 large main winches on a CSY44 (late 70s).
Also perhaps the source of such info, is there a good active csy forum somewhere?

Thank you.

Followed my own thinking and found a csy forum....nit sure how busy it is though. Csyowners.com

[psk125]

Maybe look for one for sale with photos of the cockpit. Winches themselves might be labeled, or might show up described somewhere on the listing.

[Patrick of M]

I looked through a bunch of ads and in YouTube sales walkthrough videos no one keyed in on the winches. They just scan past them, they look big maybe 55s?

[Talk Story]

CSY Owners Association

[Patrick of M]

Yes I have asked there, and no reply yet. This issue is time sensitive so I am searching everywhere...anyone have 4 x lewmar 55s old but serviceable, going for a song?
Or any decent price really.

[duetto]

The largest winches on My 79 CSY 44 are (2) Lewmar 48 Self Tailers for the genoa sheets.

[Patrick of M]

Thank you, that pretty much confirms.
Btw was 48 enough, or would you prefer bigger?
I might as well go bigger if I'm replacing.

[duetto]

The 48 seems good to me.

[Patrick of M]

Glad to hear it.

[AiniA]

We had a Bristol 45.5 that is similar displacement to the CSY. Our primaries were 65s and th secondaries were 55s - the original owner bought the entire option list I think. They were wonderful and let my smallish wife handle the boat without difficulty. Not sure I would want to go below 55s and get 65s if you can (and they fit). The obvious problem is that such big winches are obscenely expensive. I got the winches re-chromed after finding out replacement of the four was something like US$12000.