Most IPs have two anchors up front. When an electric windlas is installed and the rode from the main anchor is on the windlass with the rode dropping inside the windlass to the anchor locker, how is a second anchor retrieved with that same windlass?

What is the best electric windlass for a boat the size of the IP29? Any good/bad experiences?

Bob:
I would simply drop the chain off the primary windlass, freeing it up to pull in the secondary anchor. This is easier on a horizontal windlass as the chain can easily be lifted off.

The windlass I would look at are made by IMTRA.com. You can buy these from defender, but this is the company:
www.imtra.com/product/anchoring_systems/...electric_winches.htm

For an IP29, I would look at the CAYMAN of TIGRES.

I replaced our SL 1000 with a Tigres and love it, it is a fantastic machine!
Hayden

Haden,

Nice windlass but expensive! I was looking for something in a vertical windlass along the lines of my current manual lewmar (which doesn't drop the chain/rode blind into the anchor locker) hoping I could lift off the primary rode and drop on the secondary. Much cheaper , too, and priced appropriately for an IP29. I'd never recover the $3-4K for an Imtra .

Now, if I had the IP35.......

Then look at a DORADO by Lofrons for about $1,400. Either way, I would never go back to a vertical windlass after using one for 6 years and now using a horizontal for 4 years. Horizontal is the best way to go for me.
Did you look at windlasses at Defender?
www.defender.com/category.jsp?path=-1|10391|29596&id=321924
Hayden