I purchased a very expensive carbon fiber spinnaker pole from Selden (South Carolina location) for my 36’ sailboat. Two years and four months after purchase and in six knots of apparent wind, while flying the spinnaker, the pole snapped in two.
As a consequence, my boat veered out of control hitting a channel marker, shredding my spinnaker and breaking my boom.
Trying to address this issue with Selden was fruitless. Even after showing them their pole was poorly built with walls 33% thinner th...