Meissner and Lewmar Winches

Roaring Forty has a bunch of rare Meissner and Lewmar winches. You could say the Meissner winches are made from Unobtainium, since the owner sold the business and then the buyer removed these winches from their  product line and they passed into history.

Two speed winches - Lewmar -50 Ocean series and Meissner -53 and -43

Meissner do not use needle rollers but instead the drum runs upon a solid sleeve bearing - simple, super reliable and easy to maintain. 

A bit of a clean up and not in bad shape at all for 22 year old yacht.

Pawl springs from Harken or Lewamar do the job. The pawls are shorter than Lewmar but I am confident manufacturers would tend to source pawls from suppliers, vice manufacture pawls in house, so the odds of matching up is hopefully improve based on this assumption!

Here's a shot of the white main bearing sleeve.