Catalina 22 Swing Keel Winch [EP 110] 

That was a great video. I just bought a Catalina 22z. My winch goes up fine but has troubles going down.

I enjoy learning about your Catalina 22. I recently became interested in sailing so I am trying to learn everything I can. I'll keep watching.

Thanks for posting this. I have a Venture Newport 23 with a similar cable, swing keel setup. The cable jumped off of the winch's drum without me noticing it, and is now tightly wrapped around the axle and the winch body with the keel about 3/4 down. I can sail it and have been, but will be taking the boat out of the water at the end of April and will need to find a way to fix it. I am hoping the launch ramp and trailer will physically force the keel up enough to get the boat on the trailer. This video gave me a good idea of how the winch is put together, so now I just have to jump in and see what I can do. A boat yard wanted almost $1,000 to repair it for parts and labor, because they said they would have to use the lift to get the boat out of the water, put it on stands, store it until they could get to it and get the parts for it. Your video may be a life/boat saver. Thanks

Great video! Thanks very much. The design of your winch is much simpler than mine. My winch and cable system is over-engineered to the point of being ridiculous. This video helped very much. Thanks again!

Need to do this too

thanks so much for the views; I found my cable had broken yesterday and the keel and BOAT is stuck in the mud, so to speak, any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated!!!

You may or may not want to reconsider how you ran your cable past the turning ball. The ball's purpose is to prevent the cable from contacting and sawing into the keel trunk when the keel is lowered and the cable end clevis moves forward. In the design case the cable should run aft of the ball. I see, however, that you have moved your keel attachment point aft because the tang is missing from the keel. That repositioning may be enough to prevent the cable from contacting the trunk when the keel is all the way down. In that case you're OK and, depending on how far aft your new keel attachment point is, the cable may even need to bend aft a bit when the keel is raised all the way. In that case, the ball will be serving its purpose when the keel is raised instead of lowered. If you can use a dentist's mirror and flashlight you might be able to look up through the pipe when the keel is most of the way up to see which way the cable bends. If your boat is high enough above the ground you might be able to lower the keel most of the way to see if the cable contacts the trunk. Before I replaced my ball, cable, and tube lat week I got some really good information from Jim at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p8CPz2JbnQA.html

Have you had your Catalina under sail yet? If you have any questions let me know, my first time out with my wife we had the original sails and a old outboard, good day of sailing. Put the sails down went to motor back in and the outboard wouldn’t stay running. We tried sailing back in and the wind had pick up, we undershot cove 3 times, finally our main blew out, we drifted to shore on other side of lake. We ended up getting new main a job and Genoa, and got rid of furler. Wife insisted on new outboard 😀been sailing her a lot since then

You should run cable behind ball, not in front, it won’t do any good there. Also consider removing winch mount, adding many layers of fiberglass at the mount point to strengthen, with stainless or aluminum plate on top . Remove that bracing, you don’t want any pressure on your hull right there. Always slack your cable when you trailer and strap keel down to trailer to keep it from bouncing. Some people leave tension on cable and if it bounces, it can destroy where your winch mounts. I did a similar thing with my keel bolt, my original broke will remounting keel, tried to drill out and replace, but tap broke and threader broke, I had a small shake before, like yours, but decided bigger is better, went with 1/2 in d shackle , mounted 2 inches below original bolt, be safe sailing

Great vid really useful from a jaguar 22 owner in the UK looking at the rusty remains of a winch! Is there a catalina UK shop to buy spares from?

Excellent! Thank You for showing the groove in the ball from the silicone jamming the turning of the ball. I would have made that mistake! I so wish you videoed the cable into the winch part, but maybe it will be obvious when I do mine. Where do I purchase the blue jack stands that are holding up the boat?

Install a friction winch unless you like breaking your arm when you release the pawl and the heavy keel drops.

What's the 2-legged metal pipe contraption between the keel winch cable and the cockpit drains?

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I've never seen galvanized pipes for the drainage setup.

I'd be figuring out a way to mount that someplace besides the bottom of a fiberglass window frame opening (if that's what I'm actually seeing). If there's more structure to that opening than is showing, great. If there isn't, and the fiberglass around the opening is showing distress cracks like I think it is, I bet it's not the original configuration. A narrow swing set style framework on either side of the cable tube with your winch between the two would take all the stress off that window frame.

Where do you have your bilge pump exiting?