My personal opinion is that a carbon mast can be made to suit any crew set/crew weight/sailing style and in that sense it is attractive. The lighterweight will make the boat feel more stable and make righting singlehandedly a breeze.
Yes, agree. When speccing a carbon mast, you can work out the bend charicteristics you want and then get it built into the actual construction. A "whippy" top to allow some automatic gust response when the appropiate amount of weight is out on the wire so allowing you to have less work to do when it's gusty etc.
But it will mean that people need to understand this when buying a 2nd hand boat with a carbon stick - if it was sailed by fat bloke(s) then the mast will be too stiff for think bloke(s) and visa-versa.
