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javadano
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Initially Posted - 04/18/2005 :  08:39:31  Show Profile
I bought my Cat 25 late in the season last year and never got her in the water. Raising the keel is pretty self explanitory. Crank the handle. However, I am getting ready to take her out and cannot figure out how to drop the keel. I cannot figure out what/where is the "magic switch" to release the keel. Please educate me.
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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 04/18/2005 :  09:00:11  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
To lower your swing keel, just turn the winch crank the other direction. There isn't a separate release like on a trailer loading winch.

Joshua, below, makes a good point about retrofit trailer winches. Ya wouldn't think anyone would, but I once looked at a Parker-Dawson 26 swing keel with a trailer winch! It definitely looked like a trip to the emergency room waiting to happen. Can you imagine breaking a bone with one of those while singlehanding? Yikes!

-- Leon Sisson

(edited to add trailer winch comment)
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jlguthri
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Response Posted - 04/18/2005 :  16:43:04  Show Profile  Visit jlguthri's Homepage
...assuming you have a brake winch --that A previous owner didn't change it to something more dangerous.....

my father's south coast 22 had a trailer winch put in by the previous owner. we replaces it with an appropriatly sized brake winch from northern hydraluics.. the trailer winch was a broken arm waiting to happen...
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 04/18/2005 :  20:54:48  Show Profile
Remember, Right to Raise, Left to Lower (at the top of the cycle).

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 04/21/2005 :  01:13:11  Show Profile
If it has been a long time since the winch was last turned, the mechanism may be sticky with corrosion. You might have to pull REALLY HARD on the handle, counterclockwise, to break the friction on the clutch pads and get it started cranking down.
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