I stripped down all fittings out of the mast and bare section weights 15.6 kg's, I believe that Gato's mast weights 15.5 kg's because we had 100 gram difference while fitted. I talked with AHPC and they said that typically mast section weights 15 kg's so basically we are quite close to that number well within manufacturing process variation, even though masts shipped to Finland seems to be on the heavy side.

If typical mast weights around 15 kg's then I don't think that I'll have too hard time righting (with aid) but I do see the difference quite large to carbon one (typically over 5 kg's), maybe with hand picking you could get better section but for shipping abroad that is obviously not an option. Also we got shipped one mast that is totally different profile (I was told that it was taken from wrong pile by accident), so obviously I'm not totally happy about all this. Happier than after weighting the damaged section though.

Hopefully one day we have enough real measurements available somewhere so that people can read that instead of hear say on open forum (let's face it even this post is such <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />).