Nilsson winch from 1984 Passport 40

[Jeremy Dinsel]

Our hard working and faithful Nilsson Winch from a bygone era is no longer serviceable. The motor unit housing corroded over the last forty years. We discovered this during a major refit project. We’ll be replacing this, and I wonder if anyone is interested in some of the parts. Everything above deck was in much better shape.

[paw...@gmail.com]

No not interested mine is fine, got new parts for it from NZ. Nice man there said his grandfather built that windlass, and its far better than any offerings today. I bought the new parts, including plastic gearcase. I still got the one direction motor but think I will upgrade that when I go to 24V system. Must be a devil of a job to change it over, I believe Nilsson have a transition piece that will assist with fitting a new Nilsson Windlass.

[Jeremy Dinsel]

We've been in touch with Nilsson while trying to determine what to do about the condition of our winch. They no longer have many options for us. We were informed that they no longer manufacture winches as they could not compete with Chinese models and are switching their company to Nilsson Engineering. 

We were disappointed to hear this news. Their winch has served us extremely well and we loved the all metal parts. 

Jeremy

S/V Whale Shadow

Passport '40

[paw...@gmail.com]

Jeremy, 

What did you do, did you replace it, what with, Was your windlass one direction or 2, do you still have it, I know a bloke who could use a gypsy that has got 13 chain link in circumference, I maybe interested in motor if its by directional. Unfortunately cannot get Cima details of the replacement bi directional motor 12v or 24v.

Thanks for info

[Kenyon Stewart]

 Jon over at Living for Sail on YT just restored his with some replacement parts from them including a new motor which I believe is bidirectional. However, his looks different from yours, so may not be the same model.  It is the same as what we have on our 47, V3000 I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5pLzLuiDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0gkDnxMLA

As for replacements, I believe that Maxwell still manufactures in NZ, though they were bought by Vetus a number of years ago.  They sold their tooling and spare parts business to a company in Australia. It helps, at least on our boat, that the older VW series is basically the same footprint as the Nilsson as that's what they were based on, so it will fit the raised, molded in platform on our boat.  It's what I plan to replace ours with as I would rather get something newer with greater parts availability. They have gone up in price substantially over the last few years...

Kenyon

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[Jeremy Dinsel]

These are interesting videos (though in the wrong order I think, chronologically). Thanks for sharing them! It’s fun to watch, but I am glad that I did not take that project on with our’s. He has a far larger shop than I do. We also heard from Nillson directly that they no longer had the parts we needed, but this doesn’t mesh with the video’s timeline of ~March 2025. Perhaps he got lucky with the specific model he has?

I’m glad that we replaced our’s. I think it will be good for the boat’s new life. More on that later.

Best regards,

Jeremy Dinsel

jeremy...@gmail.com