The started out life as a hydraulic system with a pump, numerous valves and hoses running everywhere. I decided to convert it to electric, which makes everything a lot simpler. If I had stuck with hydraulics I would have had to mount a pump slaved off the engine with dual matching pulleys. Also the pump I had with the reservoir attached needed to be the highest thing in the system. Neat trick when it had to be slaved off the engine.
As you can see it is mounted up on the aft end of the bow sprit.	Here are the things I am replacing. The hydraulic motor, controls, and the pump.
Here is the back of the windlass. This is the housing that the new electric motor will attach too.	This is the new 2.5 HP motor showing the new flange mounted to the motor. It is mounted to the motor with 4 flat head bolts.
Another view of the motor with the homemade gasket attached. I didn't want to have a metal to metal joint when they are tightened together.	After some grinding to prevent binding I greased up the shaft and installed the drive hub. Not easy. I couldn't get my fingers underneath to hold the key.
Spider on windless hub ready to put together !	Here it is all together and running as smooth a glass. The motor is supposed to turn at 2500 RPM. With a 33 to 1 drive ratio, this is about 75 rpm for the windlass. When I powered it up it was going approximately 60 RPM. This means it will bring up about a foot of chain every second. Be fun to see what it will really do once it is pulling up the anchor.