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[quote=samc99us]Dyneema strops work well for lowering the mainsheet off the boom, and won’t hurt nearly as much as a shroud adjuster if you hit your head! I use 4 or 5mm dyneema, tied through the clew and around the boom with a bowline at each end...there are fancier knots/splices but I find bowlines hold well in dyneema, are easy to tie and easy to adjust.

Nacra sailing is right that you want a dyneema cores line for a tapered mainsheet, or a cover you can bury dyneema into. The Rooster Politite could be tapered by an experienced rigger, essentially you bury dyneema into the core then do a locking brummel splice into the dyneema with the cover. Unfortunately this tends to make the line thicker at the splice, and therefore the whole thing doesn’t run as smooth through the system as an untapered line would.

I’ve been using Coppa 5000 in 7 and 8mm for tapered mainsheets, this is a good mid-range line that holds up well in systems with autoratchets. If you have a manual ratchet in the mainsheet system that doesn’t free spool, you need a more durable cover that can take the abuse of running across a locked out block.[/quote]

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