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what rope to buy? 23-Feb-2007 At 2:54:11 PM belayslave

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I have a Bluewater 10.5mm Accelerator 50m. I've had that for at least 6 years or more. Most
people would still consider it leadable on, but it's been around the block a bit and seen it's share of
saltwater so has been retired to abseil duties. never had to cut any lenth off it, though now the sheath
is wearing a bit thin in parts. It wasn't the greatest rope for knotting, and it got dirty and held the dirt a
lot! apparently it was a "double dry" rope.

My next and current rope is a 55m (yes it came as a 55m rope, i don't know why!) Edelrid 9.8mm.
Great rope, nice and light, really good 'knotability'. a pleasure to clip and belay with. tends to run
quickly through grigri's though. Great rope.

My GF has a Roca which is a big fat heavy thing. She brought it for the number of Facter falls it could
hold (something about around 16 from memory, more then any other i've seen). I'm not overly
impressed with Roca either as the consensus seems to be.

I've used a huge number of different brands of ropes that i couldn't name them. But on the top of my
list are:
Edelrid
Mammut - My bro has two of these are they're pretty nice.
BlueWater - more specifically for there statics