All comments as Chairman of the F16 class !

>>I have been able to negotiate with a good builder in Victoria for, what I consider, is a very good price.

Name and contact info please.


>>>It wouldn't surprise me if Boyer and Goodall are sourcing their mast from the USA, not because of the quality but for price!

Leaving aside that this is a very good reason I must also express that quality of the final product was also an important consideration. Noteably to quality control with respect to margins in production. The LA yard proved to be able to produce product with a more constant dimensions and smaller offsets.


>>I would have to hold in stock would amount to over 176 mast sections.

176 section of about 13 kg equals 2275 kg of total batch job weight. In my experience this is a very significant batch job size. Most extruders have a minimum batch job size of 500 kg's = about 35-40 masts per batch.


>>The outcome is that to hold aluminum for one cat I would have to carry in stock nearly $500,000 worth of aluminum.

Humm, 500,000 / 175 = 2857 Aus$ per mast = 1714 Euro / mast

I think this claim to be ludicrously off the mark. I've been involved in a mast production for the Blade mast and know exactly the pricing of extruding. But let me describe it this way. My own mast bought from AHPC 18 months ago was produced, anodised, shipped to Aus, got AHPC profit margin added, than after staying in Aus for about 12 months shipped to Europe, increased with 20 % tax and another 15 % Dutch dealor margin and came out 880 Euro in total. Now do you really want us to beleive that your masts cost 1714 Euro per mast (twice as much) just to have them produced in Aus ?


Darryl, I'm really sorry but this data you supply simply does not check out. And again we're not talking quotes here but an actual production run of which the mast will arrive in EU this weekend.


>>As far as weight is concerned between carbon and aluminum for beams, they all come out at about the same weight, so there is no weight saving by going to carbon beams.

To this claim we agree.

Wouter