You can destroy anything if you try hard enough. Remember the one year of the Worrell when the surf was huge and on the nose, when the I20 fleet tried to launch through it at the start, most of them broke something, rudders, masts, etc. I think only 5 of the 21 boats made that leg, the others trailerd to the next stop.

I don't blame the boat for that, and just like snapping the mast if you are doing something wrong, it's not the mast's fault.

Heavier usually means stronger until you change material. We know a "strong" fiberglass 20' cat is going to weigh 400 lbs. But carbon is stronger and lighter than aluminum, and fiberglass, that's why Boeing is now building the 787 with as much carbon as they can. All the new Unlimited Aerobatic Competition airplanes are being built of carbon. The A cats are all carbon. Carbon is the future if you want to go faster. But Carbon is expensive. So all we have to do is mass produce it cheap enough to replace fiberglass.

I don't have any knowledge of what it costs to produce carbon vs. fiberglass. If there are any carbon industry experts here, I would love to know. Is it the raw material that makes it so expensive or the manufacturing process, or limited supply or all of the above?