meteye says you blokes are enjoying a bit-o-wet?. have watched it move down for the last week or so

quite intense, but it seems you mob-o-blokes have gone to sleep, spect it's been too warm to bother, for me

roll on May 1 every thing moving well toward it.......have a good weekend.......Three Cheers for Australia,

" Hip, Hip Hooray, " "Hip Hip Hooray," "Hip hip Hooray" !!!!.........Go The Aussie.

if ya in hadelaide drop in to Salisbury celebrations , main north road sunday 26 and cop an earful of The Northern Ukes [ NUkes ]

been thinking of taking the sailing canoe out to the yacht club just for the photo op

Nice

Sylk said..

I don't think there's much rush to get our land-yachts finished, fortunately there are other alternatives

so how was sailing on thin water?

Ive been working flat out since the rain .
destroyed the $500 brushcutter, then the hedges went ballistic as well.
sundays suddenly have a cycle roadracing distance attached , and im mentoring/designing 7 class 5 yachts.
i will get out for a saoil eventually

recon after the next weather happening, seems to be another brewing to the north

that could possibly land up in the lake. Strange they seem to have sprouted over land

well you seem to have missed 25mm top up landy but i suspect the pink lake may have accumulated some moisture ...chook?

according to the EYE......... it is exceedingly hot round adelaide and the moisture content at 11 am is 3.... strange

A couple of outriggers and you would have a nice trimaran.

Musta bin some holiday....Ya didn't get a word out edgeways....hi Promo

kambalda boysarrived today and got yet more cutting and prep today. we workrd towards an alignment jig and pinning down the final measurenets for the axles. saw some pics of an interesting seat being prepped by andrew , hope to see the pics soon

Brian & Andrew's pods starting to take shape just as we are beginning to see dry patches on the lake. Come on Kalk people time to catch up!!

Well thanks to an early start with Paul on Sat we progressed the build to the point where she needed a test run.

Brimming with excitement I headed back to Kambalda with a ute load of bits of landyacht. Even the rolling thunderstorms didn't dampen my enthusiasm, Sun morning and a quick check revealed that the creeks had been flowing overnight "BUGGER". Of up red hill to locate an exposed patch of salt, hmm better take overalls this might be a bit damp.

Managed to find an exposed patch of salt, same corner of the lake where had that unfortunate test flight last spring.



Minor miscalculations meant we decided to start with straight axles and see how she sails before getting ahead of ourselves.



I'd love to report she sails like a dream but the promising breeze in Kambalda had dropped to a zephyr by the time we got setup. I can report she sails and is very comfortable to lie in while hoping for wind. After an hour of forlorn hope the GPS said max speed 10.5kmh distance covered 1.2km.









To add insult to injury as i lifted the yacht back onto the racks the wind finaly figured out where it wanted to blow from and settled into a decent breeze again.

Better luck next weekend.

Manny thanks to Landyacht for all your time, knowledge and patience I think I owe you a case or two and probably more by the time she's finished.

going by the look of the lake, its just as well you have suspension

might need to think about the rear axle as well if tou want to stop your kidneys swapping sides

stephen

That yacht looks great. the seat is very much stealth bomber. has any of the lake dried out yet, I will probably be up that way in May and was thinking about brining a yacht.

Hi Vic
The lake is more dry than wet just the wet bit is where we launch from atm, a decent southerly would move it over to the StIves causeway.
Right now if you could launch from the old clubhouse you would have plenty of room.

The ponds are all dry I gave my new toy a good test run on Sat clocked up 50km on the 1st pond.
Feels ok just need to put it alongside some other yachts to get a better idea of how she goes.

Let me know when your going to be here Ill come out & play.

CORRECTION: The ponds were dry till 5 min ago, just had a thunder storm come through, will let you know the damage later in the week.