Nice design..... pity it doesn't have the correct size wheels to suit the International Mini5.6 class rules.

Looks nice I think wheel size needs some play in it anyway. I agree it looks fast.

with a good breeze on clay the yacht could get scary really fast
love it.
id love to start really playing with 20" wheels on the back of my mini, but have put them aside for the future, maybe just a little cl5 for lil stig to grow up in

Hi Blake
Here is the link
Cheers
Vic
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Land-Yacht-Sailing/Construction/Spirit-of-Stupidity/?page=1

It was supposed to say I'm trying to get Farmer into the mini fray. Long day.

US772 said...
Blake I've been designing a simple plywood 5.6 mini. I designed it to be 96'' long overall to fit the back of my truck. Enclosed cockpit for a little more warmth for iceboating. If it works it may be a fun project for wood workers or wanabee woodworkers. I'm trying to Farmer into going the fray.
John

Oooooh, I like the look of that - any chance of some more details? Is that circular feature at the front end of the cockpit a flat steering wheel?

I love the 20" wheels to but in the interest of having an international class that has plenty of room to experiment I think moving to the 16" wheels was a small price to pay to see this class get well and truly established across the world.
Cheers
aus230

aus230 said...
I love the 20" wheels to but in the interest of having an international class that has plenty of room to experiment I think moving to the 16" wheels was a small price to pay to see this class get well and truly established across the world.
Cheers
aus230

Vic,
Thanks for the link. I would have recognized that black mini as yours even without the numbers. Pretty machine! I had forgotten how much fun and how informative this forum is. Thanks to all!
Blake
US319

Hola,
Trying to clear this up...Are there really 3 Australian mini classes? From a long and somewhat acrimonious forum read, I thought you had settled on two, essentially one like International 5.6 and one where pretty much anything that fit in the 5.6 rope was okay. What about New Zealand?
Blake

blake52 said...
Hola,
Trying to clear this up...Are there really 3 Australian mini classes? From a long and somewhat acrimonious forum read, I thought you had settled on two, essentially one like International 5.6 and one where pretty much anything that fit in the 5.6 rope was okay. What about New Zealand?
Blake

those are old threads you have been reading blake.
Australia has got a bit messy, but at the moment we have( by we im refering to a gentlemans agreement between a majority of mini owner0


International 5.6 mini
blokart
A few years ago at our lefroy event we divided the minis along the lines of the blokart production/performance idea, but have since abandoned that idea. the purpose was to get blokarts/minis racing together. presently we only do that at lefroy events as the blowies just wanna have fun onthier own.
previous to the fisly internationl 5.6class there was an ALSA rule that made the mini classes along the lines of an NALSA proposal for a mini class1,2and 3.
our 5.6minis mainly fitted into miniclass 3. those rules were awkward and led to all sorts of silliness. when the group that had brought the rules in split from ALSA we moved on to the FISLY rules,which are the ones we have now.
so a blokart fits in the fisly international5.6 ,but a mini only fits blokart if it is a genuine blokart.
many years ago Australia had a class6 which was slightly larger than the fisly5.6.
when minis started sailing again about 2007 those rules were dug up for racing, but people tried to change them to suit thier yachts rather than change thier yachts to suit the rule. this was when the 3 NALSA class rules appeared and all the hoohaa started.
so in summary
fisly 5.6 ,blokart

Nikrum said...
Just to add a little fat to the fire; What is wrong with owning a LLFMini 5.6 with a spare set of wheels that might happen to be 20"/32" if you want as long as the Hubs are identicle to the requirements of your Platform Chassis (Talk to Chook).. A quick change around gives you Competition Craft and then you also have something a bit different to experiment with??
OR
Am I just being obtuse??
To me Rolling Resistance(RR) is a great variable in all of our venues, soft surfaces, Hard Tarmac, Grass etc Large dia tends to lower RR and smooth out bumps, smaller Dia is good on soft surfaces as long as the gain contact areas that are greater. It then becomes a question of FAIRNESS and so we have to set a Competition Standard.. Great! No one has yet said you can't play on our field if you are not competing. I would think it is all relitive to what you are intending at the time, furthermore Competition rules should leave as little as possible to the imagination as we are all looking for an EDGE as competitors.
Competition will bring out the worst in many people. Hence we are all punished for the misdemeanors of the few.. Sound familiar???
Ron
PS, what has happened to the Spell Checker???

this is what people get mixed up and hot under the collar.
you can do what you like ,BUT when you go to an event to race with other minis, there are a few simple rules to make things more equal. be it a rope rule or a wheel rule.
otherwise it would be obvious to try different stuff when at that event , in fact go for it and post pics
thats why all my wheels have a common shaft size