 Welcome to Sportsman Tech Talk, my name is Jim Isaac. This week we'll be going over how to properly deploy and retrieve your windlass anchor. The windlass is standard on all of our open inherited sport fish models, 26 feet and up, and an option on the other models. All right, the first thing you want to do is come up front, access your anchor locker lid here. Your windlass is down here. You're going to have your safety chain hooked to the chain here. On the bow here, you're going to have your two controllers for the bow, as well as one mounted on the console. Yeah, so you remove your safety chain, and then you're ready to deploy your anchor. So once you remove your safety chain, you're going to come over here to the bow controls. Make sure that nobody has any of their hands in the box or anything like that, because it is a spinning windlass, so it could get caught in there. You're going to have a bow control. One's going to be facing towards you. That's actually to deploy. Then there's one facing away from you. That button is to retrieve. So all you're going to do, come over here to the button, you're just going to press it. All right, so once you have your anchor deployed and it's set in place, you're going to want to come in here and you just want to pull a little bit of slack and actually cleat it off onto that cleat that's in the anchor locker. That way you're not pulling directly on that windlass and it's not stressing it too much. All right, so now that your anchor's set and you're ready to retrieve the anchor, the first step you're going to do is go over and you're going to take the rope off of the cleat. Then you're going to go over here and the arrow facing away from you is going to be your retrieval button. So you're going to want to hit that button, let the gypsy on the windlass spool up until it comes tight and then it'll start retrieving the line. It's going to go slow until it reaches the swivel on the anchor. Once you get to this point, kind of stop it because you don't want to jam the anchor into your bow. Just pull it in and that's all it is to it. Then once you have it retrieved, you're going to come back in here, hook your safety chain in and you're good to go. All right, so that's the basic, simple, easy way to use your windlass. It definitely makes it a lot easier if you're out with your family or you're out by yourself and you don't have an extra hand. Retrieves it for you, stows it for you and you're ready to go. All right, if you have any questions, just post them below and we'll see you in the next episode.