Wow, what year mast is it?

Maybe you saw MY posts, about the 'inverting mast', on my 6.0na. It's a NA, but it was bought and sailed in #93, sail #111, I think it's #11 production model.

Anyway, my mast went, or inverted, and after taking the diamond wire tension off, it was about 18", when measuring from a straight line ene to end, to the greatest point of bend, bent forward, away form the sail track.

Some of my friends and I 'bent' it back, on some pylings at a parking area on the TX city Dike.

After I posted about this type of failure, many others posted about the same failure.

Well, I figured since it was trash anyway, wouldn't hurt to try and bend it back, which we did, then added more rake, and more diamond tension, and guess what?

Sails better, sail shape is better than ever!
Spin and all!

Never heard of this type of failure, maybe too MUCH spreader rake?