Sorry to be beating "my own drum" here, but in the F16 class we allow carbon pretty much everywhere. Carbon rudderstocks and rudder/daggerboards are still less than halve the price than the glass/alu stuff from our competitors.

Stealth marine offer a full carbon set of hulls for only 1000 pounds more, on a total glass package price of only 6700 pounds. This standard package already includes a carbon mast.

It is my experience that certain carbon mast makers charge high prices for their products but that this is alo wholy unrelated to the price of the carbon cloth itself.

"Carbon = expensive" is simply not true

"certain builders/supplier = expensive" very much is true.

Wouter