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How to attach the mast to the windsurfer board?

Do all windsurf boards require a mast extension?

  • I got a windsurfer a while ago in the winter and im taking it out this weekend for the first time. I was looking at videos about how to rig them, and i see something called a mast extension? Its some thing that seems to go on the end of the mast and attaches to the board. I went out and looked at mine and it doesnt have one. Do all windsurfing boards need it? Or is it just some? it's a used board so it's fairly old. The board is a mirage 290, if that helps at all. If it does need one, how much would one cost me? Thanks!

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    Excellent question and also posed with info. Thanks. Nope. Your sail set is what you have be it 6.2 or a 7.0. All an extension does is simply that...extend the mast and also the sail area. Why they offer these nonsense items...beyond me. Competition perhaps but nothing a recreational boarder should worry about. If you are a competition boarder, I'll leave out to those in the know since I'm simply recreational.

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Most new sails require the use of a mast extension. That is because different sails require different mast lengths so you can get the right mast curvature and get the bottom of the sail as low as possible. Masts are typically 4.3m; 4.60m and 4.90m; etc. So, if your sail needs a luff of 4.80m you would use a 4.60 mast with an extension for the other 20 cm. The mast extensions have a ring that makes it adjustable to different lengths and the tip of the extension goes inside the mast. What keeps it in place in the "downhold" that you put to the sail (rope that goes from the sail to the cleat in the mast extension). Then you have a "joint" that attaches the extension to the mast base in the board. There are old designs that are different but same principles. Very old equipment, with just one sail (typically Dacrom), had the mast cut for the original sail length, but that was the case in equipment from the early 80's, not anymore.

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