Do you wash your running rigging?

[Cheechako]

I've washed in a bucket with light detergent. I have washed in a machine on slow/delicate too. It can get tangled some, but works. I left them tied in bundles for the machine. The detergent cleans them up very well.

[JBsurfin]

Originally Posted by Pete7

Ours tend to go green in the UK, so we have been washing them in the washing machine over the past couple of weeks. Halyards with a spinnaker fittings on the end go inside an old sock tied on with a shoe lace.

However, for the first time we had this occur 1/3rd of the way along a nice piece of Dyneema

The Genoa sheets definitely feel much nicer after a wash.

I use a mesh bag. seems to prevent that from happening.
I also use fabric soften. Seems to do a great job at keeping the lines supple

[Prairie Chicken]

Ours go in the washing machine at the end of each season when the sails come off.

[doctorbill]

Maybe useful this REI VIDEO on how to wash climbing ropes

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/rope-care.html

[Bunnellr]

Totally agree. Not for wear on ropes, but wear on hands.

[BBill]

The only rope I've washed is old stained dock lines. Soak for a week or so with detergent. Dirty sails get the same treatment in a kiddy pool. Little to zero scrubbing, the dirt just drops off with agitation.

Washing time is better spent on standing rigging damage than running rigging in my opinion. Take down and soak in kiddy pool, lube with lanolin and swap ends on reinstallation.

[ScottMeilicke]

I ended up washing the lines near the base of my mast a lot. My dog would look me right in the eye, and before I could stop him, would lift his leg and pee all over them.