I am in the planning stage of building a mini. Since I am 1000 miles from the nearest ocean, I will be doing most of my land sailing in a large parking lot. I do not want to do body damage, to either myself or any parked cars,therefore I will want to put a brake on the mini. I think a disc brake would be the best. Any ideas how to put one of those on the wheels? Would it be best on the front or the back? Thanks.
Brian

Sometimes the best-laid plans go south. My plan was to photograph my sail, then get some feedback concerning the cuts. Didn't happen. I called my sail maker (yes, 1000 miles from the coast in a small town of 10,000 we have a sail maker…go figure) and he is excited to get involved in land yachting. I called on Saturday evening, he said he would help me but he is leaving for a month on Friday. If I had the sail ready for him, he could sew it on Sunday morning. This gave me 14 hours. No problem there, sleep is overrated anyway.

I made a cardboard template as per the instructions. I am using a Neil Pryde 5.7 m sail. I laid out the sail and unstitched the bottom of the mast sleeve. Cutting this sail would have made a lot of work to make the battens still function. It appeared that an easier solution would be to add to the bottom end of the sail.

I cut the bottom off the sail then unstitched the cut off part. Placing it on the sail, it looks like I can get the proper luff curve and not have to deal with the battens. He is going to sew it in about an hour from now.

The good news is that he wants to make a custom land yacht sail for me, when he gets some time. I will be asking you more about this when he gets back. For now I will try this out, at least I will be able to sail.