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    Installing an Electric Furler

    Oct 15, 2019 4 minutes

    So, what exactly is involved in installing an electric furling gear? If you’ve ever installed an electric windlass, part of the process will be familiar to you—you’ll be hooking up an electric motor to switches and a control box, running cables the length of the boat and adding an appropriately rated circuit breaker in the positive cable from the battery. That’s all simple enough, and if you’re a capable DIY-er you could do all that yourself. What’s not so simple for the DIY-er, as I found when watching Seldén Mast techies swap out a manual Furlex 304 with its electric equivalent, is the rest of it—the rigging component of the project.

    They were fitting the unit to

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