Wayne Iwamoto says the mast is aluminum. He doesn’t think the mast is why the boat capsized. He thinks the carbon mast is about 1/3 the weight of the aluminum mast, which would be perhaps 500 lbs lighter. Reducing the boat’s weight makes it faster and reducing weight aloft reduces the boats movement in light air.

I asked him about fairing the front cross piece. He said don’t bother. However, he will look for an aluminum tube remnant at a cheap price that we might could replace it with which will lighten the weight at the bow, which improves performance.

He didn’t think we should remove the nar-pole, if that is the pole going up the middle of the tramp.

Mike