Envisage, you're a hour from landfall, cruising indurated waters in your Mate's 35-foot sloop, a bully wind astern. The wind shifts. The jib luffs. Prepared to gybe, your buddy points the bowsprit across the wind; you let outside the Harbour jib stage. Much, when you grind the starboard period, no thing happens. The arm barely budges. What at once? Chances are it's dirt trapped within the drum. Barring something worse, liking a carbon fibre crack in the drum, the next are some steps you can share to repair your winch while sailing.
Instructions
The Dirty Winch
1. To disassemble the winch, unscrew the backside of the winch handle socket, pull absent the socket and lift the drum off. Remove the gears and bearings and stow everything in the sack.
2. At your cleaning station, launch cleaning winch components, placing the smaller pieces in the can fundamental; add the mineral spirits. Remit the components to soak.
3. After soaking, returns Everyone Element and, using the cramped brush, work away the old, dirty grease. Rinse them in hot water, removing the mineral spirits. Dry parts with clean rag.
Spin the shaft and gears to ensure that everything works. Repack the winch drum with fresh grease.
5. Slip the drum back into the winch housing and screw in the winch handle socket.4. Replace the gears to their housing; observe that the pawls open and close with ease. Lubricate pawls, using light oil---do not grease. Then replace remaining components.
