None of the procedures listed are guaranteed to work, and some or all of them may be hazardous. If you feel unable to take responsibility for your own actions and errors without resorting to the legal profession then you are advised not to read it, let alone build anything based on information here. In any case you are advised not to build a composite structure without someone experienced in the materials to contact for advice Introduction Mast building is probably the most challenging laminating job the amateur boat builder is likely to take on. It means handling a lot of material in a particularly tricky lay-up, and the consequences of getting it wrong are serious. If you build part of your boat with an unnecessarily strong lay-up then you've wasted a little bit of material and added a few grams of unnecessary weight, and if you make it too light then there'll be a small loss in stiffness and possibly the need to reinforce it.
Masts are more difficult.
Don't take on a mast until you've done a good lot of laminating and can consider yourself reasonable skilled. You're also well advised to do a boom or a bowsprit first because the much smaller size makes the project easier, there's less of a worry about it ending up too stiff, and in any case its not such a big lump of cash in the bin if you get it very badly wrong. The folk who are building masts within the UK fleet are doing it with the benefit of some years experience and several boats behind them. Its also well worth pointing out that there's no consensus as to the best way of building masts yet, and there are other methods that work just as well - maybe better. Page Index Designing the Section.