For the winterising we had removed ALL the running rigging. This means all ropes that were not actually holding up the mast. I washed all ropes (warps, halyards, sheets, painters, shorelines and the rest..) in a washing machine on a gentle programme using Woolite soap and they came out looking good. Then we stowed the ropes for the winter so everything had to be installed again, including the sails.
Clambering up the mast allowed madam to get some harmless exercise winching me up three times in the bosuns chair. Some of the 'mouse' lines had broken and come out due to 100mph winds over winter. These mouse lines are installed in place of halyards so that they can be reinstalled without climbing the mast. So since they had broken I had to get up the mast to feed the ropes back into the pulley apertures etc.
Here are some pictures:
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