Hi Rolf,

I like the idea of spreaderless prebent wing mast. Crowther Multihulls designed such a mast for large Multi's, I have seen a couple in action and they looked good. One of the guy's that lives nearby has built a couple of Schionning cats, he had a home built mast on his first one, which had trouble with invertion so he kept raking back the diamonds and increasing diamond tension to prebend it, but eventualy diamond fixings failed and he broke the mast. So that's why I think building in prebend is a good idea, it can never invert I think.

Phil, it's good to see others going back to off the beach cats from big ones, although mine where not as big as your Schionning, which are very nice cats we have a couple of them on the Gippsland Lakes now.

Regards Gary.