How Does Adding Weight to a Sailboat Mast Affect Its Dynamics?

[BrianMc]

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Retired engineer (agricultural engineering) living in Tennessee. Came upon this forum looking for physics of adding weight to a sailboat mast and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion found on this site.

Educational background included basic statics, dynamics and hydrodynamics taught in most engineering programs along with advanced mathematics and thermodynamics.

Professional practice was in soil & water engineering, and water resources.

At this point main interest is in physics of sailboats and how they react in wind/wave conditions. However, all physics topics are quite interesting to me.

 

[phinds]

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you'll like it here.

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to the PF.

Came upon this forum looking for physics of adding weight to a sailboat mast and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion found on this site.

Then you probably already know that we are fortunate to have several experienced sailors here, like @anorlunda and @sophiecentaur

 

[phinds]

Welcome to the PF.

Then you probably already know that we are fortunate to have several experienced sailors here, like @anorlunda and @sophiecentaur

And there are those of us who can sometimes identify sailboats 'cause they're the ones with the big white flags all over the place.