Now that I read it again it does sound funny.... but I have not thrown in the towel just yet for the motor. Don't really want to drill holes in a 34 year old boat.....
My windlass finally gave out on me so I decided to take it apart and see what the issue was. Mechanicall the Windlass is in great shape the problem is the Motor is completly gone. I reached out to power winch the maker of the windlass as they have engineering docs on the motor they do not know...