Hi ppl my fathers shoulders are deteriorating of late with tendon damage to both shoulders giving grief and keeping him from surfing and sailing at the present.

To make sailing easier on his body he has fitted much larger winches and is going down the track of using a power drill with the required attachment s to use the winches saving his shoulders.

Any tradies or people with hands on experience with power drills want to disclose their most favoritist weapon and reasons why they are your most favoritist.
Thanks

we had a thread going a while ago and I think the American brand Milwaukee was doing this job cant remember the exalt tool
found it a right angled drill M28

Yes recently he replaced the existing winches with big mamas ( dont know the brand) of about twice the size so in theory that should cut the effort of winding the sail on to about half.

But due to the severity of pain he is getting drill power is now a necessity also. Cheers

+1 on the winchrite, the girls love cranking the mainsail up with this as well

Im just saying. ....you will need one hell of a extension lead

Offthegrid said..
This was on the yacht when we bought it. Grinds our main up 15m easily. It draws from two 12V motorbike batteries wired in series and we charge them in parallel.

can you buy the right angle drill locally ,Off the grid?

www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-3107-6-2-Inch-Right-D-Handle/dp/B0000223HJ

found one outlet so far
www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/milwaukee-18v-fuel-brushless-right-angle-drill-m18crad-0.html?gdftrk=gdfV26854_a_7c442_a_7c1200_a_7c103436&gclid=CJfd89zO08oCFVgkvQodeDsBhA

www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/cordless-right-angle-drills.html

HG02 said..

Offthegrid said..
This was on the yacht when we bought it. Grinds our main up 15m easily. It draws from two 12V motorbike batteries wired in series and we charge them in parallel.

can you buy the right angle drill locally ,Off the grid?

www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-3107-6-2-Inch-Right-D-Handle/dp/B0000223HJ

found one outlet so far
www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/milwaukee-18v-fuel-brushless-right-angle-drill-m18crad-0.html?gdftrk=gdfV26854_a_7c442_a_7c1200_a_7c103436&gclid=CJfd89zO08oCFVgkvQodeDsBhA

www.gettoolsdirect.com.au/cordless-right-angle-drills.html

i haven't found anywhere in Oz that sells the M28, only the much smaller and less powerful 18V model you linked to above...