Well the gusts got to 30 knots yesterday, so I pulled out one of "Landyacht" old 3.5 square meter "Flying pig" sails he gave me and set up.(Thanks Paul)

We had a hoot, hooning around our Pink Lake, although it is still pretty damp and you lose the back end on the snotty stuff. Had a lot of runs over 70kmh before I ran out of hard lake and got covered in crud.

I have been haunting the lake every time the wind is up and on Thursday we had 5 yachts out together and no camera. I've managed 167 kms in my yacht in the last 3 days.


This is another yacht I built. A mate from Melbourne was here and he had a broken leg, so I made him up a hand steering and we wrapped his leg in foam rubber and away he went with the Velcro leg straps that hold your legs so they can't be flung out of the yacht in a capsize. (not that he did)
The other yacht in the picture I built for "Mark",that has made the seats for me.


I used this big 6.9 square meter sail, in light winds on Friday and it worked really well. I thought with all the sail hanging out the back it would drag me sideways all the time. Even when the wind increased it didn't.
Why would that be the case?????

Is it because the front third of the sail does the work?
The boom on this sail is 2300mm long and the mast is 4850mm high.
Gets me going in quite light winds and really moves out. It is a roller cam racing sail.