I had two different boats that came with the Good horizontal shaft windlass. They did not take chain, and they never worked. Three friends also had the same model as mine on their boats and they never worked. Talked with Good at one of the shows and they said they would take mine on a trade towards the vertical shaft model as shown in your pics. Very nice people and very sincere. It seemed to be light years ahead of the horizontal shaft deck mount model that I had, but I opted for a closeout deal on a Maxwell instead simply due to price. I wound up giving the old one to a friend who used it for parts to fix his........and it still didn't work. Go vertical shaft whatever you do. Their horizontal shaft models seem to have bad juju.