Hi Darryl, Can`t say much for the Auzzie chute, I`m not familiar with the one they use, but in South Africa we use a plastic chute made for a keelboat, and we cut it down the center, remove a piece and glue it back together with pvc solvent. Works like a dream. The rope shouldn`t chafe the plastic chute too much, since when you retrieve, the first thing you do is release the halyard, so there is very little tension in the retrieval line. The line runs through the patches in the spinn, so it bunches the spinnaker up before pulling it into the chute, so the line actually has very little contact with the chute under tension, since once the kite starts to come into the chute, it`s the spinnaker which will chafe against the chute mouth rather than the line itself. We`ve had this system up for about 2 years now, and none of us have any serious chafe-marks that warrant chute replacement. Attached is a pic of the chute we are using.
