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    Posted: 28 Mar 11 at 2:39pm
Not convinced that advice to "protect" sailors from such pitfalls should be in class rules.
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Lol. The Laser class rules even state you must have a knot in the end of the mainsheet which was vigorously tested at the 2010 Worlds!
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Have to say I do NOT like Maffioli sheet - sooooo flopppy, tangles around everything.  OK it doesn't kink but the free end ties itself in knots around the jib sheets and my ankles.  

Rooster polilite is much nicer, but the strength is in the outer and the outer is the thing that wears first - leaving no main sheet when those gnarly harken blocks eat through it.  At least the maffioli's strength part is woven right through it.  

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Originally posted by NickA

Rooster polilite is much nicer, but the strength is in the outer and the outer is the thing that wears first - leaving no main sheet when those gnarly harken blocks eat through it.  
 
I have a 7mm polilite on my boat and have had the Harken blocks since they were released. There is no sign at all of any signficant or excessive wear on mine, perhaps your blocks may need some attention?
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After a lot of testing I have now gone back to the Rooster mainsheet as I think it is the best (I haven't had any problems with wear compared to other ropes and it seems the least 'knotty').

However I am now using maffioli on control lines as the soft rope is much kinder on the hands.

There is more detail here:
http://jonemmettsailing.co.uk/index.php?page=latest-blog

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I ordered a load of Rooster rope for the Minisail mainsheet on Sunday (12 m worth - very long boom!) - glad to see here that it is regarded as being good. The boat is aft main, and I wanted something light weight so it pulls the boom back less when the wind dies on a very broad reach. My old main was also too short to be able to get the sail past 90 degrees.
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We had a Rooster polylite mainsheet on the javelin for a bit - my helm found it hard on the hands (big sheet loads), but it didn't wear.  Back to some old school woolly stuff from P & B now.

Sure enough it was my harken carbo block that ate the old (pre-maffioli) main sheet on the V3k - little burrs had appeared on the teeth of the ratchet wheel. 
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