No Spare Parts? No Problem. Windlass Rebuild in Remote Borneo | S2 Ep 81

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Our anchor windlass suddenly stopped working — right when we needed it most.

In this episode we dive into the full rebuild of our Maxwell anchor windlass after discovering five separate failures inside the unit:

✔ Motor repair
✔ Oil seal replacement
✔ Replaced the worn-out bushing
✔ Machined shaft key
✔ New electrical switch + fuse

Timo takes the whole windlass into Kota Kinabalu (Borneo) — walking between workshops, engineering shops and parts suppliers — and somehow manages to fix every problem in just one day. We rebuild, reassemble, test-run and the windlass works perfectly again… me...