My mentor had us take all of the winches off of a 1980 32' IOR. We were repainting her so all of the winches came off. This included the 8 on cabin house for all of those halyards and the like. No jammers back in the day. I got the removal job. One of the other young guys was the cleaner guy. He...
winches are like automobile engines. There is no fucking point in changing the oil in a car if you rarely drive it. Cabinhouse winches that are used for halyards would never get serviced. They just sit there and get used for 5 minutes every time you sail. If you don't use the spinnaker much...