Are you a marketing major? The first paragraph seems written for a glossy brochure, not the reviews section of a forum.

The CAAS masts are like a jewel. They are extremely well made. I've got 3 Powerwave 100% RDM CC masts. I chose the Powerwave over the Extremewave as they are lighter. I'm not an extreme sailor, and don't need the strongest masts.

The good thing about buying an OEM brand (this probably is the case for other generics), if the sail manufacturer isn't forth coming with mast/sail compatibility info (or you question their info), shoot these guys an email, and they will tell you what year/model/brand's is the most compatible with your masts. I mentioned in another post at the start of the year, I use pure CC masts now. I am going to work my sails around my masts from now on.

I have both these sails and masts. have 4.3 , 4.6 , 4.9 & 5.2 . use them for everything. B & J cross shore to on shore. They do exactly what they say with only three battens. You do need the right high quality mast to make them shine and CAAS Masts are the perfect match. I find small increments in rigging can have large on water performance gains. I appreciate their simple and minimalism nature and design. Well done HSM and Kauli Seadi . Im not a team rider. just a 53 year old hack.

I helped to develop and test the 75% masts in the past as well some 100% when CAAS was still a really small start up brand (2006 or 07).One of the cool things is that the owner Damjan is still doing almost everything or at least supervising himself, so the quality should be pretty constant.

CAAS doesnt build his own pre-pregs but uses the high quality ones made in Italy as well the Pre-pregs made by the triana-factory.Besides building there own label masts, CAAS made some masts for other brands as well.The BIG difference between the Extreme and the Power is that the Extreme has besides a thicker wall also a different Pre-preg and filament patern. Where the power is made from a slightly stiffer but more britle pre-preg makig it more reactive they used for the Extreme a more tenacious/elastic?? kind of fiber. that combined with a slightly less steep angle of filament allows a thicker wall thickness without becoming too stiff.In feel the Extreme is having a really nice sweep. I,m not sure how to explain it, but it offers a bit of filtering making the sailing more relax to me without being dull.
Like written above the Power is a performance orientated mast, powerfull and fast, but to be honest, not as fast as an MaverX Superlego, Hotsails Ultra or Severne Redline, those are just a different performance and price league. If I would compare them to others I would say they are a bit faster as the Ezzy and Goya masts. Both Power as well Extreme can take a serious punishment, but eventually everything can break of course, I proved it on both, but with both I was actually surprised it was "just" my mast instead of my whole gear destroyed. Can,t blame a mast for a stupid sailor trying things way above his level in serious waves and shallow water The only mast I haven,t broken yet is the Hotsails Kauili (wich is pretty thick walled as well!!).
I,m sailing KS3 since there out, and yes they are pretty cool sails.They aren't that many sails out there that except in minor details stay unchanged for 3 years and are still hard to compare with anything else.

Hi Jeroen,

you talked about goya mast have you tested the 99% goya mast...should fit exellent on hsm sails...

thanks in advance

uwe