Blue Water

Technical details:

I acquired my BlueWater from Mark McIntyre in 2007.

The BlueWater is a typical two-slot belay tube with a rigid keeper. It is forged from aluminum alloy and soft anodized. Mine is 48 mm. long, 57 mm. wide, 83 mm. high, and weighs 49 g. The slots are 32 mm. long and 15 mm. wide. The top of the Omega oval carabiner that I use for comparing belay tubes sits 13 mm. below the ends of the slots.

One side of my BlueWater is marked "BlueWater."

Comments:

The BlueWater has a rigid rod keeper that stands up to the rope running over it (by accident, of course), but makes the device harder to pack. The keeper is loosely pinned in place, and the ends are visible as they are on the Smiley Atoga - not that it matters either way. Aside from the visible keeper ends, it looks much like the Advanced Base Camp Brakeman and Liberty Mountain belayer.