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New Anchor Windlass Shelf

This almost-new boat had some very bad delamination in the anchor windlass shelf. It was made of fiberglass with a plywood core, and the holes for the chain had not been sealed well at the factory. Nor had the leading edge of the shelf, which had just been cut and then coated with gelcoat, which cracked when the shelf flexed under the windlass loads.

Building a new fiberglass shelf was out of the question, since the original was part of the deck mold, and there wasn’t nearly enough accessible surface area for the secondary bond of a repair to be strong enough.

So we cut out the existing shelf at the height of the underside of the deck, then, using a sheet of 3/4” G10, we made a new shelf with all the required holes for the anchor winch. G10 is a fabricated epoxy and fiberglass material that’s cured at high pressure and temperature and is extremely strong and impervious to moisture.

We bonded the new shelf, both mechanically and with epoxy and glass, to both the hull and the back of the anchor locker, as well as supporting it with a stainless steel strut from underneath. After a year of charter use, it looks worse for wear, but is perfectly sound.