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I was once on a Mumm 36 with rope strops. 'Twas blowing snot, everybody hiking hard, and of course a strop failed. One of the crew came quite close to swimming. Without quick action by her rail mates, she would have.

While rope strops might be easy to inspect, they probably fail more often than steel fittings.