Quick Windlass Switch Reset

Push it in?

Then time to measure the back leads with a VOM to ensure that is where the failure is.
Look for a battery switch somewhere while looking for your Volt-Ohm-Meter.
Purchase surveyor may have turned it off the battery switch.
To be usually off until used.

Depending on how strongly you did that, I'm afraid you might have broken it.
In fact, it's supposed to be either lifted (ON position) or lowered (OFF position).
It's impossible to be positive about its current position just from your photo, but if I should guess I'd rather say it's off.

I was hoping you would find this thread. I was just guessing to push the breaker in knowing the OP had moved it all around. Also testing the breaker/switch.
Just trying to be helpful to a NFG.
Do Muts have battery switches for deck machinery?

It looks like a rubber boot placed on top of the breaker. Have you tried flipping it up or down?

pull the thing out and replace it with a normal breaker. I like Blue Seas breakers for these applications like

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/blue...gUzHoYdW7WCWvicc7joDpoPr8wfTcKLMaAmXYEALw_wcB

Actually I'm not so familiar with the OP boat, I just happen to know that switch because it's used also in several others.
BTW, it seems that you guys were not alone in wondering how to operate that thing, because the producer still makes it, but they replaced the face panel with a more self-explanatory one...

Actually it is a normal breaker, and also pretty solid.
In fact, coming to think of it, I never came across one that failed.
So, it might well have withstood the push/pull attempts...

Then lets find the battery switch to the breaker and windlass turn it on or On-Full-Force (OFF) and check the breaker.

Just for reference, as I said the switch itself is the breaker, meant to connect/disconnect the positive DC power cable going directly to the windlass.
Here's what's behind the panel...