The skylaunch is a cosmetic update of the 1960's US Gerhlein winches and
suffers from the same major shortcomings. If you still like it, save $50k -
$75k by spending a couple of thousand for an old Gerhlein and fix it up.

If you'd like a modern, state of the art winch, take a look at these from US
winch buiders:

http://www.romansdesign.com/
and
http://www.hydrowinch.com

Bill Daniels


"Ted" TBBlakeley@comcastDOTnet wrote in message
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Hi Mark & Tony,
THANK YOU SO MUCH for your replies!! You guys are GREAT!!
Cheers, Ted



"Tony Clark" wrote in message
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At 00:43 13 July 2008, Ted wrote :-

Does anyone out there in this world make glider launch winches . . . .


Well you did say "Does anyone out there in this world make glider launch
winches . . . . " ?

Out of interest try looking at :-

http://www.skylaunchuk.com/index.htm

You sould feel at home, as the one I drive, the Skylanch 8200 is powered
by a Chevy 8.2 litre V8 (Run on LPG)