marc5 said..
Does anyone else find it weird that we call the long part of the foil that connects the fuselage to the board the "mast"? So now we have two things in our gear that we call the mast. It gets confusing when someone says, " Adjust the mast." Sail mast or foil mast?
How did we ever start calling it the mast? If you Google search parts of a hydrofoil, just about all early images return "strut" for that part. I notice several posters here are using that term. The horse is already out of the barn, but should we start saying "strut" instead of "mast"?
No it's not weird. Just a reflection on the demographic of wind foilers. Scientists studying language have found that innovations are always from the youngsters. Once we get on in years we have trouble thinking up new words for things. "Strut" is certainly better than "mast" but i'm sure a young windfoiler could come up with something that just hits the spot. ( Windfoiler is also a bad name, too generic, the best I can do is uni foiler or UJ foiler. More descriptive maybe but I'm not terribly imaginative)
