chook has just told us about this event , is anybody interested in heading there for a weekend of sailing ,fishingand general enjoyment of the Esperance area
there are some really keen lansailors there and they have their own fleet of minis,so why dont we go and join them

Sounds like a plin

been a long time since i've been down that way. sounds like fun. is chook still doing the beach run after chrissie?

landyacht said...

ledzephyrlin said...
been a long time since i've been down that way. sounds like fun. is chook still doing the beach run after chrissie?

I beleive he may be in the planning stages , but needs more testing of the SUPPPER BUGGY first

SUPPPER BUGGY = buggy to eat last meal of day from

that photo is just too clean and tidy for me chook, I need it more like my mancave

Well I've hit the wall.

I received this last night from the “Festival of the wind” committee.

I have had a lengthy discussion with the committee in regard to including the Land yachts in the program and they have decided that given the absence of insurance, they do not wish to proceed. This decision is based on the cost to increase our insurance to cover the event and that perhaps there are too many variables that may prevent it from happening on the day - weather, lake conditions etc. as was the scenario last time.
As such, I would like to thank you for your considerable time in this regard.

Yours truly, ………………..


So it means that there will be no insurance, (which they had 2 years ago) or support for the "Recycle Regatta".

Geez “Beachball”, I know how you feel mate.

Well The Esperance "Festival of the wind" event has finally been sorted out.
It's a weekend at Pink Lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A huge thank you to both Paul and Lyndon from LLLSC for your help is getting me back on the right track.

So,,,,,,,, as originally organized, it will run with racing on Saturday March 16th and a social day of sailing (have a go day for the public) on the Sunday March17th. There is plenty of room for both to happen at the same time.
(If there is no wind on Saturday the racing will run over to Sunday).
Cost will be $10 per competitor /pilot for the whole weekend.

I have arranged for a porta loo to be left onsite all weekend and a Public address system to be available for both days.

The conditions at Pink Lake at the moment are perfect!!!!!
We have had fire trucks on the lake for the last 3 days as the scenery has been modified slightly by an arsonist. Well the 800 hectares around it.


More info to follow when I've had more sleep and my batteries are recharged.
(3 more fires today after school)

This photo was taken on Monday night at 9.58pm (by one of my brigade guys) so you can understand the amount of radiant heat we were dealing with here. The trees and scrub were about 5 or 6 meters high across at the far lake edge.



Cheers Chook

Got a feeling that you guys will need floats at lefroy and pink lake

Could you use the beach at Dunns,I sailed there once it was pretty good.

handy use for pulse jets no.223

drying out wet gypsum?

Hi everyone, due to the amount of rain we received last weekend
(it's still drizzling with 15 to 30mm forecast for this weekend)
the Esperance “Festival of the wind, land yacht racing and have a go day” has,
OFFICIALLY BEEN CANCELLED.
The lake is just slop!!!!

I hope by doing it at this stage it hasn't wrecked too many plans.

It is a major disappointment as we were so looking forward to hosting this event.

Thankyou to all the people that put in a huge amount of effort.

Bummer!!!!!

dang !!!!!!
oh well we'd better start on plan B chook, I suppose I'll have to go looking for new lakes around Kal then

Thought you said this event was canceled Chook?

Chook2 said...
It was when “Mr Plod” caught me overtaking the cars that were doing 50 kmh along the Esplanade.
A mate that was watching, text me later to find out if......
I was charged for speeding or not wearing a life jacket.
It was none of the above. Ta for that John.

At least I got 6 runs in from the long jetty to the port entrance so 12 Kms for the Festival.

Lots of interest, but long faces about the “have a go day” being cancelled.

Seabreeze should get a lot of hits on the LLMini construction now.

if you told me we could have had an urban weekender i would have been down in a flash. always great to book a new speed record on an esplanade

Oh well see if I can jinx the rain in two years' time and go for a hat trick.

Sick of Pink Lake being wet, so picked this up yesterday with a good sail and a trailer, for a carton of rum.

It's a "Crest Cat" and can't find anything about it on line.
It has an Australian design award sticker on it as well.

Trailer had a blown tyre (bit rude eh??) so it's pictured on my old man's trailer.

Hi Chook.
Couple of pics that you may like. Went to Bridgetown field day. There was a tractor pull. The old Lanz can still keep with the modern stuff,pulled its heart out