You think it's too long? I bought the boat used about two months ago, it's from 2007 and the pole does not look like it has been replaced = it was supplied like this from AHPC.
Of course I might have made a mistake during measurement, I'll do it again. However, the boat is in winter-storage, I have the spinnaker-pole in my warehouse only so I can't check if it fits in the class rules - what I still suppose.