If I may make a contribution. I have an aluminium wing mast originally supplied by AHPC, however I did buy this one privately as a blank section. At some time when I were weighing my hulls on the bathroom scales, I decided to grab the mast and weigh it, without any great accurancy, but within reason, it was 14kg.

Originally the mast came from this die I believe (do not quote me on that) and then a heavier section was also available suited if sloop rigged. A batch of masts came from the lighter section die, that were very inconstant, in fact I know of one person who is multiple national and state champion that went to AHPC, went through the entire rack looking for a mast with good bend characteristics of the entire rack, he found 2 'maybes' and took the best, only to return it not long after and stick with his original mast.

I have what would be called an original cat rigged section and the only masts available now are the heavier sloop sections. And it has been recently moved at the Taipan AGM to not allow more newly registered boats to have the lighter masts, to have a level playing field, because the owners of these masts were selling their boats without mast or with a new section, and carrying over the mast to their new boat.

Regards