Winches Serviced

Until last year I had been servicing Pachuca's winches with Lanox lanolin grease but last year I accepted with some reluctance "Lanotec" grease, after being assured that it was the same as Lanox. In fact I have not been able to Lanox anywhwere. I opened the Lanotec and saw immidiately that it had a much lower viscosity than Lanox but I nevertheless decided to give it a go. That turned out to be a bit mistake because as soon as the weather became hot the Lanotec grease began to seep out of the winches as though it was oil. This year I wanted to avoid the standard winch greases because you get very little for a lot of money, and I like to grease not just the wearing surfaces but any internal surfaces prone to corrosion. This year I settled on "Nulon L80 Lithium Grease with PTFE", which ticks all of the boxes for marine use. If this grease works out well I will not expect to have to service the winches for at least 3 years, given the light sailing that I've been doing.