As the weather was settled, I decided to work on the windlass and once I got it apart I was shocked at how the rusty chain had flaked pieces of filings into the windlass. These were still magnetic so clogged up the small magnet which is used by the windlass sensor to detect rotations. I cleaned up and used my stainless cleaner to remove all vestiges of rust form the pieces of the windlass and re-assembled it. It initially worked, but the chain was still flaking and soon the sensor stopped working again. I decided to let my anchoring remove the worst of the rust and then clean up the windlass again in the future.
I had a tasty Lo Lo meal at “The Rib Shack” but they’d put so much garlic and salt and other spices onto it that I needed to drink about a half liter of water afterwards.
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