Washing mooring lines

[Fourbees]

Washing mooring lines ??

Running rigging yes, but mooring warps really is a step too far!

+1 - I never wash them.

 

[johnalison]

They get stiff with salt after a while and are much easier to cleat after washing. People ashore seem to have a habit of releasing your line and dropping it in the water.

 

[mcframe]

One maintains said machine so one uses it at will

The bushes went in my washing machine recently, so (after finding a video on t'net ;-) I ordered some spares theough Amazon.

In the spirit of RORC regs on skin-fittings & plugs, and Montessier and his spare steel plates, rivets and drill bits (oli-filled jars) kept in the keel, I ordered two sets of bushes and a spare drive belt; the spares are now gaffa-tapped to the back of the washing machine *on the inside*.

 

[ocean_groover]

Had a dockline got some diesel spilt on it in a cockpit locker. Soaked it, towed it...couldn't get it clean.
Eventually, at an Australian east coast marina that shall remain nameless, I did a moonlight flit up to the laundry and chucked the smelly slippery rope into a washing machine with a ton of detergent.
The dockline is to this day still slippery and smells of diesel. There is also one particular washing machine at an un-named Australian east coast marina that you are advised not to use.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

But Shirley - the MAB will have drifted from its mooring by the time he gets back down to Gosport with the clean lines ??

 

[johnphilip]

I rent a washing machine so I can wash anything I want in it. If it shakes itself to bits they bring me a new one. I don't rent anthing else because that would be stupid.

You may have a point, renting has been recommended to me by another sailor with the motto "If it floats, flies or fornicates it is better to rent"

 

[penfold]

The bushes went in my washing machine recently, so (after finding a video on t'net ;-) I ordered some spares theough Amazon.

In the spirit of RORC regs on skin-fittings & plugs, and Montessier and his spare steel plates, rivets and drill bits (oli-filled jars) kept in the keel, I ordered two sets of bushes and a spare drive belt; the spares are now gaffa-tapped to the back of the washing machine *on the inside*.

The problem with that is when you come to use the spares they'll be covered in ooze; if you must use gaffer tape pop the bits in a plastic bag first, but better to loop them on a piece of string.

 

[mcframe]

The problem with that is when you come to use the spares they'll be covered in ooze; if you must use gaffer tape pop the bits in a plastic bag first, but better to loop them on a piece of string.

Still in the plastic bags they came in

I /did/ think about adding some of my silica sachet collection, but decided that would be OTT.