There's always another project when you own a boat, especially an older one. It's too cold to work on buffing or bottom painting, so I'm doing what I can indoors. Current project: Winches. The 2 primary winches in the cockpit are Barient 32 self tailers. These differ from the normal Barients in that the whole gear structure is a contained unit that is removable. So I took one off yesterday and brought it home.
Here is the gear unit and the drum.
The next step is getting the gear unit apart so the parts can be cleaned, lubed, and re-assembled.
On a winch this big and complicated, I clean it up in sections- that way there is less confusion in the jigsaw puzzle of getting it back together. Smaller winches don't have many identical parts, so it's less of an issue.
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