I understand the new coming One Click system of Slingshot with its benefits of having no more separate fuselage. For good reasons : strenght, stability and weight being able to use carbon : the 2 ends of the fuselage being incorporated in the foils, without carring tools to the beach when changing foils.
I understand the advantages of these systems, but having no fuselage anymore ends the possibility of a compatible mast / fuselage connection. I guess and I am nearly sure it is technically virtually impossible to make an adaptor piece from a Hover Glide, Phantasm, or Sabfoil mast or any other actual or older mast to the new On Lock system that requires the O shape hole on top of the mast ?
Gong aluminum masts are cheap, stiff and adaptable to tuttle, deep tuttle or plate.
Probably cheaper than trying to hack together some sort of half baked connection to the Hoverglide.
I'm unsure if they will offer the windfoil extension for their V3 but if they do that's a direction I'd look. The V1/V2 wing connection simply wasn't amazing although serviceable.
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I understand the new coming One Click system of Slingshot with its benefits of having no more separate fuselage. For good reasons : strenght, stability and weight being able to use carbon : the 2 ends of the fuselage being incorporated in the foils, without carring tools to the beach when changing foils.
I understand the advantages of these systems, but having no fuselage anymore ends the possibility of a compatible mast / fuselage connection. I guess and I am nearly sure it is technically virtually impossible to make an adaptor piece from a Hover Glide, Phantasm, or Sabfoil mast or any other actual or older mast to the new On Lock system that requires the O shape hole on top of the mast ?
It's actually a triangular shaped hole, bit like the old Lift fuselage.
