[Rhodes22-list] Converting Electric Winch Motor Lift to a Manual System

[ROGER PIHLAJA]

Hi Stan,

That’s very interesting.  I did not know there was more than one version of the manual motor mount.  The side rails on my motor mount are 28-3/4” long.  From that, can you tell if I have the standard or tall manual version?  I suspect I have the tall manual version as there isn’t much more vertical real estate left on the transom after installing the motor mount.  It took some careful measurement and installation to make that thing fit properly on the transom.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium

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From: stan<mailto:stan at generalboats.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Converting Electric Winch Motor Lift to a Manual System


thanks Roger, Peter please note,

We did *not* build the manual motor mount to tilt for the vector change
reasons Roger covered earlier.  The effort needed to raise up to 9.9  4
strokes OBs was and is, very reasonable.

To maintain our "proclivity for constant improvement" we did also build
a tall manual version where tilting a standard 20" long shaft is not
necessary.

On 9/8/20 9:39 AM, ROGER PIHLAJA wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Given Stan’s proclivity for constant improvement, I don’t know if my GBI manual motor mount is “typical” or not.  Having said that, I can tell you my motor mount does not automatically tilt the motor at the top of its travel.   I have an extra long shaft Honda 8 hp outboard.  Unless I am hard on the wind on starboard tack, I do not have to tilt the motor up.  Even with the port rail in the water, the 1st detent on the motor’s tilt mechanism is sufficient to keep the lower unit out of the water.  Tilting the motor up to the 1st detent is pretty easy and you only need to do it on one point of sail if its blowing hard enough to bury the port rub rail.  Are you certain it’s worth all this effort to make the motor mount do this automatically?
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> Roger Pihlaja
> S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
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> From: Peter Nyberg<mailto:peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 9:50 PM
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> George,
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> I’m not sure if you’re saying that your think that the GBI manual lift did not have tilt, but after seeing the pictures, that’s the way it looks to me.  It’s hard to be sure though.  Again, maybe someone who knows could comment.
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