Granted, it doesn't have nearly enough carbon for a Nacra 20 and this does not include hardware...but it's still a far cry from $11,000.
I just got off the phone with a friend who has a company in Irvine California that builds carbon components for Boeing as well as racecar teams. I asked about carbon prices in general and he said that raw carbon material as gone from $20 to over $50 per pound recently.
He also said that the Navy has stockpiled millions of pounds for new projects including two mostly carbon destroyers. He wouldn’t say but my impression is that these two “tin cans” have already been built, each using a million pounds of carbon materials.
Where do carbon masts fall in this scheme of things?
