I'm seriously gobsmacked that the carbon in such a small hollow pole weighs 600kgs, surely you must mean inclusive of all the hardware, stress guages, rigging, instruments, pulleys, halyards etc, if so then yes you would need a lot more than 10K's worth of Carbon. On that weight it must seriously strong, sort of a carbon stick on Viagra ? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
Wanyne, with all the rigging (fixed and running), spreaders, load cells etc the mast weighs closer to 900kg.
So yes the bare tube is 600kg give or take.
The new mast on Wild Oats (100ft canting keel maxi) is longer and larger but lighter than an AC mast as it uses a higher modulus carbon than is currently allowed in the AC boats. It cost a lot more than an AC mast too...
