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Europe Mast Thinking - The Danish Concept
When I was coaching the UK Europe Squad back in the late 90's, I had some technical help from Sid Howlett who at the time was Ben Ainslie's technical coach for the Finn. Sid explained that standard Finn mast bend profile was: The mast should have 100% of the fore/aft bend number at the half point (between the bands) with 50% at the quarter and 50% at the 3/4 point. Effectively a perfect segment of a large circle which makes fitting the sail to the mast very easy especially with increasing or decreasing sheet tension. We have to hope that...
