I built an Iceflyer and chronicled my progress for anyone who's interested in building one. http://www.iceflyer.net. Some of the links to third-party sites are broken. Will get around to updating it at some point. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Hi David'
I built a Wind Flyer (Ice Flyer)some years back. I loved the yacht but moved to class5 so that I could compete in racing. I would have loved to have raced the flyer with several other flyers. Here is a link that I posted on Seabrease .
Cheers
Vic
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Land-Yacht-Sailing/General/wind-flyer/

thats a nice set up youve got peter, , at least you have some good tension on the downhaul/vang/outhaul to set the sail well. does it need the the point where the sheet attachs to the body to be closer to the tail of the boom, that would have to help

Thanks for the nice comments. I am wind and ice surfer more than 30 years(started at 12 jears of age on water.)
Windsurf riggs on land and ice is a diffrent set up as on water.
I build my experience over the years for water and ice, on land its about good now.
I still modify my buggy, the front wheel is 35 cm closer to the driver for a better balance.

I would like to know more of the sheeting like the ice flyer , than may be the sail can pass the center of the buggy when tension comes. And the tension comes at that point sides ways from the back axel? like windsurfing.
Then i can build off my system to set the rigg like windsurfing :
mast direction against the wind, the first test went really well only the sheeting should be better.
With the mast against the wind direction i take off early'er, build up more speed in control in good balance.

To Landyacht,
Its an option , i am now pulling down on the sail , with your suggestion i am pulling backwards witch would be better.
But I would like to pull the boom side ways in direction where the wheels are.

To Lorry,
I also did some sailing with the landyacht from my buddy Jos, with the sail in front.

Whats good in my concept;
The view like this,
Empty beaches like this are not common in Holland (the Netherlands), most of the times they are crowded.
No sail,lines or ropes in front of you.
The sail bottom is 10 to15 cm from the surface, and the endless possebillity to rake the mast.
Imporant for my main goal to go fast and save on ice, on the beach is training. You are comfortable sitting in the buggy as a kite buggy, not lying horizontal.

What could be better;
Take off, i need more wind compered to the sail in front.
Sheet rope, for lighter, faster controls and complete all my idee's.

I have seen some big crashes with ice surfing, had some my self also but i am still in one piece and want to stay so. Thats why i want to sit .

To Vic,

Thank very, very much.
Now i can build off my idee's , and will post some foto's if all the work is done.

Sorry for my poor englisch.
If anyone has questions or tipps , please let me know.
Cheers Peter.

Hey Peter, I enjoyed that ride, great beach to sail on. You can migrate to South West Australia anytime if you bring the beach with you!! Our beach down here is pure white but softish and about 10 metres wide when the tide is out...if I'm lucky... Wok

Hi Peter, lucky Bug... is all I can say. I used to live in Cairns and the beach near Pt Douglas was the same, did 120mph on my first motorbike down that beach, no safety helmet, no noggles and only thongs, shorts and tee shirt. Makes me shudder to think about it now...W

Peter, nice build. How do you tune your sail for ice or land compared to water? How does it go against a blokart?

Hello Peter
Never ride a Blokart ???? come to Roosendaal and borrow mine !
Have Fun
Ruudje

I made a set up without sail for sheeting my steel ice flyer, it runs very smoothly.




Also made a aero plane steering.



Take it apart to fit in my car in a few minutes.



Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Peter.

looks good, but i think you need a tag on the outside of your foot steering controlls to stop the foot sliding off sideways and possibly going under the yacht.....then breaking

short vid from my old wind flyer

Some thing that would help with the low end, is to rake the sail forward about seven inchs past vertical, if you follow Wallys plans you will have a succesfull boat, I built a tubular scalled down version a few years back and it ran very well.

great to see that somebody has finally done the experiment that needed to be done with this set up setting up the sail for when you are up and powering instead of etting it up as you would when you initially get on the board.
whilst losing the initial take off power ,you dont slow yourself down as you accelerate . kind of like starting in 3rd gear .
great experiment well done. Its interesting to note how small your sails are compared to the US boats, yet you are sailing onsofter surfaces.
your beach looks stunning by the way

It is hard enough to get out to the dry lakebed when the wind is just right. Does the tide and wind seem favorable most of the time or is that just one more variable you have to deal with?

Been rockin' this setup and theory for a couple years on a LL mini sized platform. Will learn this week and next as we test at Ivanpah if the is speed there or not, hope we have good wind.

US772 said...
What days are you going to be there?
I plan on being there next Thursday 21st for about 10 days or so. Going to sail the new class 2 wing.
Wind looks good -
windalert.com:443/spot/35368

Between now and April 5 will be there any day wind looks decent. Looking forward to seeing the big boats. Red Lake is on the agenda also.