You've got to be kidding
Hello,
Take the challenge out of rigging? Far from it, unstayed masts are just one end of the mast spectrum, and a misnamed end at that. See, the weather side of the mast IS the standing rigging, and, at least with carbon fiber, can be "tuned" during manufacture. And this can be taken to the next step, with semi-stayed masts, where mast and rigging can interact in unprecedented ways, for greater efficiency than would be available otherwise.
At the moment, designers are still feeling their way, racers are still breaking the bright ideas, and new materials are continuing to generate variables, so the unstayed rigs in production now are really only hints of what might come. And they still have running rigging, so I can at least satisfy my splicing jones.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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