Shall I pile on?
My windlass is as old as my boat. Installed in (or before) 1980. Well used by previous owners, who took this boat to AK twice before I got her.
One anchorage that, for me, resulted in a fouled anchor, tested the lifting power of this windlass by bringing to the surface a complete car-hauling trailer, so roughly a ton of dead weight. Twenty years later, the old girl was getting weak so I took the motor in to a shop and had it re-wound, for a new lease on life.
A Lofrans Tigres, of course.