Dear All land-yachties
Happy Christmas to you all.

My son and I just finished a welding course and decided (as our 1st project) to build a land-yacht of sorts! We were motivated by the remarkable projects shown on this site. Attempting this project makes us appreciate the magnificent craft that you seasoned campaigners show us on this web-site!

We took our craft out for its first spin - on a wide beach near Wilsons Prom in southern Victoria. The breeze was very light, and although we managed to limp along, we didn't break any speed records! We attach four photos: one of the landyacht sailing, two of the mast set-up (and detaild of the twisted plate), and a third of the wheels and bearings. We would very much appreciate some advice about:






a) the general 'set-up' of the yacht - e.g. whether the mast is too far forward, how we have the wind-surfer sail set-up.
b) how we should make the mast step. Note the bent plate at the base of the mast support - and this was from a light wind. Note that we are using a narrow one-metre mast pole stepping up to wider aluminium wind-surfer mast extension, then all slipping into a wider base-tube. I can't see any pictures on the web site of how you all manage to support the huge forces at the base of the mast.
c) The bearings of the wheel-barrow wheels that we are using, all ceased-up with the fine sand, and stopped all together! How should we deal with that!

Any advice would be warmly received
Ian R.