OK looks like I started this on the other thread but thought it's time to have it's own.
QLD titles were last week but this week no Blokarts at Farnborough or Bangalee beach.

Where are you guys??

2 Cartons of beer to any Blokart that beats me. Short or long course, light or strong wind

Red sails said...
This is a favourite road I sail on just west of Gin Gin, with a good 20kt SE it's good for about 80kph in either direction. How do you fancy your chances against a Blokart here?



It really is horses for courses, we aren't restricted to wide open plains to get speed. Kites are fast but if you were to ratio the sail area on each vehicle equally you would be hard pressed to beat a Blokart or landyacht with a kite buggy.

Come on Brett. No porkies allowed on the forum. I know Gin Gin well and I ain't never seen no road like that anywhere near it except on the east side near the golf course and that pic ain't of it.

Besides which if one was to sail it he would have to be suicidal and breaking the law. By definition of the cops, land yachts, kite buggies etc are W.R.Ds (wheeled recreational devices) and as such are nor permitted to be used on public roads.

To BrisKites and the rest of the kiters:- I really wanted to be up there with you with my Lake Lefroy Mini Yacht to show you how good they are (better than a blokart, proven) and show you the follys of your ways but it was not to be due to several reasons, mainly financial.

If I was living in Rockhampton or Yeppoon you could not have kept me away. It really surprises me that the Capricorn blokarters did not join you this weekend.

After all it is a celebration of wind which is our common denominator. If your wind there was like we had here in Bundaberg today, you must have had a ball.

I honoured the wind gods by taking the blokart out for a sail this afternoon.

Brett has a valid point though in that sail area to kite area, he and I both believe a landyacht (which is what a blokart is, as much as the blokarters want to deny it) will go faster than a kite buggy.

Be that as it may or may not be, the point is irrelevant as there are different dynamics involved. It all about what gets your rocks off.

Cheers Cisco.

It is a very nice pic Brett and I thought it was a tad too pristine to be anywhere in Aus.

Like you, I would just go for it and sail it as long as there were no road trains or the like hurtling along it. I am not a big one for permissions either.

Are you still able to use the DHL car park or is it "placio non permitto" now?

When I was living in Gladstone I would sail the carpark at the fishermen's end of the marina. Good reflexes essential.

Spinnaker Park which was essentially the landscaping on the sea wall of the marina basin was really great too. Unfortunately I think I scared the poop out of an old biddy who was poop walking her dog there so the Port Authority chased me out of there and even sicked the cops onto me.

They couldn't figure out exactly what the blokart was so they radioed into their sergeant and came up with the definition of W.R.D. (wheeled recreational device) and told me I could use it in any public park but definitely not on any roads.

The ocean front parkland areas around Bundy have these really great concrete pathways that are about 400mm wider than a blokart wheel base and you can really get a speed hoot up on them. Got to be careful you don't drop your wheel off the concrete and clip your rim on the edge of it. They just explode. I have done two rims like that and the tube usually goes too.

Have you been to Red Beach on the southern end of Bribie lately?? That would have to be the nearest best spot for sailing around Brisbane wouldn't it??

I am watching the weather maps and waiting for a huge high to come marching across the Bight to give me an excuse for a trip up to Yeppoon in the near future.

Fair Winds and Fast Sailing, Cheers Cisco.

well on lefroy we did have a great session sailng with chook2's kite buggy, and we didnt sail on one of Napoleons route nationales( soo busted red sails)
it was in light windsunder 10 knts, chook had a8m kite up, our LLminis had between3.6 and 4.2m sails.
some interesting observations. in a standing start the buggy would leave us for deadeasy, once up to speed we would peg him back and pass, but it did take time and if it was a less than perfect surface,I think he would have stayed ahead.
for the windspeed on the day we were slightly faster and more manouverable.
the mini was much better upwind, the kite needed to do some fancy manouvering to accomplish that. I would love to have done a comparison in the winds we had the next day but chook was off in mid lake destroying a set of fallshaw knobblies in massive long reaches

OK guys, that little jibe was just to create some interest. A few Blokarts turned up on Sunday and Monday and we all had some great sailing conditions. Hope to see you all there next year.