Blue Water ropes

[Jens]

After years of swearing off Blue Water ropes (many bad experiences with em' in the 90's-they suck!) I was a sucker and bought one a couple weeks ago. I ordered it because it was on sale. I got a core shot in the first 4 hours of climbing on it. I wasn't abusing it at all. The rope is toast and pieces of core are bulging out from a blown sheath. My last expereience in the 90's was almost as bad.

Friends don't let friends use bluewater ropes. (I've climbed on a lot of them and know what I'm talking about!)

 

[Mark_Husbands]

did it get hit with a rock?

[Jens]

nope.

[catbirdseat]

I had one that lasted a good long time. I was very happy with it. It was close to being retired when a friend wrecked it by falling off the same move three times in a row on top rope and penduluming the rope over the same sharp edge. Any rope would have been cut by that treatment.

[colt45]

A friend of mine used a 9.6mm blue water rope 2-3 times a week for close to a year. It held at least 100 lead falls, and there were no durability issues. I have never personally owned a BW rope though.

[tomtom]

Bluewater makes ropes for Yates. I have two of the Speed Wall ropes, and they are great. Leading, jugging, hauling or toproping, I've beat the crap out of mine.

[Weekend_Climberz]

Could it be a bad batch or ropes. I'm a Mammut fan myself, though I have a NE rope that is going to be my workhorse this year. We'll see how that holds up

[ericb]

After years of swearing off Blue Water ropes (many bad experiences with em' in the 90's-they suck!) I was a sucker and bought one a couple weeks ago. I ordered it because it was on sale. I got a core shot in the first 4 hours of climbing on it. I wasn't abusing it at all. The rope is toast and pieces of core are bulging out from a blown sheath. My last expereience in the 90's was almost as bad.

Friends don't let friends use bluewater ropes. (I've climbed on a lot of them and know what I'm talking about!)

 

Jens - can you please provide some color as to how this core shot occurred?

[Jens]

I don't know how the core shot occured.

I've proably taken whippers on 30 different blue water ropes so it ain't a bad batch.

I won't pontificate any more but it isn't just a durability issue. Handling, kinkage, lying aobut diameters, poor weaves, inconsistent lableing, sheath slippage, flat spots right out of the bag, and a whole lot more. Don't buy one.

[Mr_Phil]

Gawd, you're a whinny bitch.

[catbirdseat]

I don't know how the core shot occured.

I've proably taken whippers on 30 different blue water ropes so it ain't a bad batch.

I won't pontificate any more but it isn't just a durability issue. Handling, kinkage, lying aobut diameters, poor weaves, inconsistent lableing, sheath slippage, flat spots right out of the bag, and a whole lot more. Don't buy one.

I think you just had an unlucky occurence. Shit happens. Sometmes ropes get cut over sharp edges and I suspect that any make of rope would have been damaged under the same conditions.

[kevbone]

After years of swearing off Blue Water ropes (many bad experiences with em' in the 90's-they suck!) I was a sucker and bought one a couple weeks ago. I ordered it because it was on sale. I got a core shot in the first 4 hours of climbing on it. I wasn't abusing it at all. The rope is toast and pieces of core are bulging out from a blown sheath. My last expereience in the 90's was almost as bad.

Friends don't let friends use bluewater ropes. (I've climbed on a lot of them and know what I'm talking about!)

 

Did you buy it at REI? Return it! I returned a rope once. They just puckerd up and did it.

[Weekend_Climberz]

Gawd, you're a whinny bitch.

 

I bet you wouldn't say that to his face when he's holding a pair of ice tool