Customer Reviews

Minnkota Deckhand 25

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Great wench for small boats. I use it on my bass boat and it works perfectly. Very easy to install. It took me about 1 1/2 hrs to complete.

Product works like a charm on my bass boat. No problems. Plenty of power for my 20 lb anchor. Pretty quiet and easy on my battery. Sure takes the drudgery out of the old cranking type.

Excellent product...works great. No more rope laying around in boat. Just push the button and down it goes til the anchor hits bottom. Push the button to off to lock into place.

When ready to retrieve push up until anchor is back in place. For transporting insert locking pin and you are ready to head home.

Exactly what I was looking for in this product!

Wanted to make life easier because my lil wife was having trouble pulling up the 22 lb Minn Kota Crab Claw anchor that we have on our 21 ft Jetcraft XS. So being the kind, considerate hubby that I am I started looking for a winch for the wench. She is thrilled with it. A touch of the button the anchor drops, kachunk, kachunk it finds a home, the auto-drift feature works flawlessly. When it is time to move on she simply hits the lift button and the anchor comes up into the davit and rides there well until needed again. This product does what Minn-Kota says it will do. The only improvement I would suggest is a remote switch as is available for their Deckhand 40 anchor winch. A good product indeed, at a reasonable price.

We have trouble with the electric anchor, The cord tends to backlash and ties itself all around the wheel. so far it has been a battle. Nothing like we expected. If I could I would return it. Great idea not such a great thing.

I bought two of these. One for the bow and one for the stern. The one for the bow I had to drill new holes in the mounting bracket in order for it to fit. The stern will take some major work to adapt it and I haven't installed it yet. The one I do have installed works fine though.

The item was installed per instructions and contacts with tech support. The DH 25 proved to be unusable for most of the one week fishing trip that it was purchased for use on. The rope continued to tangle and run off the side of the spool(inside the housing) and become inoperable. The unit had to be taken appart at least three times. The case was damaged when a tangle pulled the spool lose internally. When discussng this yesterday, the tech suggested an alignment problem. This is not the case, since the rope guide and unit is mounted on the nose of the boat directly behind, and in alignment with the davit. I suggested that the rope was installed incorrectly to begin with, and should be completely unwound and rewound. The tech agreed with the approach. There is nothing in the instructional manual that indicates that the rope may need to be rewound before initial use -- in the meantime, the unit is unusable and the case and rope are damaged. I will make the fix, again, and write this investment off as a disappointing purchase. I own other Minn Kota products , so was surprised at the lack of quality.