Finally a subject on seabreeze that has the blokart guys active.
With that much hard selling from them, you would think you are in your local car yard!!!!
Perhaps they need to buy some advertising space from seabreeze rather than use the forum.

THEBIGC said...

WHAT

WHAT we are now bagging kite buggys ,also are you a blokart dealer?

wheelnut said...

Splitpin he's not only a blokart dealer he's the "importer"
It's AMAZING how active people / groups get when they see $$ in the eyes, or benefits for themselves.

Get your facts right gentlemen, he's not the importer, I am. Phil Coulter is my name and the company is Que 5 Pty Ltd, Australian Distibutors for Blokart.
It amuzes me to read the ever so quick asumptions that seem to plague this forum......

I ask, do you know me wheelnut?
I ask do you know me Hills?

No, neither of you know me, so what gives you the right to ASSUME that the post by MRBIGC has been sent by me.....it doesn't give the right does it!!!! as said get your facts right.

To clear up a few facts in previous post.

Yes Gizmo, the figures are correct that we have sold over 600 blokarts in Australia, it's not just a marketing ploy, it's actual sales.
If you understood the blokart you would have no reason to question what is advertised, Let me tell you, only a small percentage of blokarts sold globally( which by the way now exceeds 8000 karts ) are used for competition racing, the majority sold are used for recreational use only, that also is the case here in Australia.
This is why the blokart brand has done so well in such a short spate of time, there is no other landsailor / yacht or what ever you want to call it available in the world today that can offer you this, one day your blokart is being used as a family fun machine being sailed by Mum, Dad and the kids, the next day the same machine is being used by Dad to race competitively, reaching speeds in excess of 90km per hour, that is what blokarting is all about, families being able to utilize the full potential of there investment.

Hills as for blokarts in S.A, i can confirm with you that there are no less than 30 blokart owners in S.A and if you would like i can send you contact details of a few, better still we have just this week put on a new blokart dealer in Adelaide, his name is Roger Welch and his company is called S.A Lansailing, feel free to contact him on 04 1785 6528, Roger is in place to sell and promote the blokart brand in S.A with the intentions of starting a blokart club in Adelaide
To clear up another fact posted by Hills, clinton (boogie) is not a blokart dealer, he was but we put him off 2 years ago.

If you guys would like to see how big in a global sense blokarting is becoming, search it through Europe / Japan / USA / Middle East / Canada, there is no other landsailor out there today that even comes close to the growth of blokart.

World blokart Titles are being held at the end of this month for 5 days in NZ with over 100 competitors from many different countries, i think that speaks for itself in the way of growth and what the blokart brand is all about,
Australian blokart Titles 2007 at Yeppoon Qld 64 blokarts registered to race,
Vic State titles 2007, 38 registered to race, these are attendancy figures i have never seen before in the "landyachting" world

If you landyachters really want to be constructive, get out there, sort your clubs out and get racing. ( clubs with one member ONLY doesn't constitute a club )

Gentleman I believe fact and not fiction is the essence of any forum

Any queries to what i have just written feel free to contact me phil@blokart.com.au.........04 0092 8060

Phil Coulter......Alias, trumpy

Good work guys maybe now we could get back to the original questions from Greg and his proposal.

No worries luv,but have been around and watching seabreeze for quite a while,yes have not posted before,because of responses and accusations that been posted in the past.
My five cents worth.

or "She who keeps us under control"

I hate to think where we'd be without you Promogirl!

I hope Greg can pick through this mess and glean something useful from it. Just ignore the rest, that's just us blowing off steam. Its been a long winter and we're all chomping at the bit to get out there!!

The MoYC committee meeting today decided to follow up on the option of LS's and will progress further in meeting with those in the sport and discuss how our venue can be altered to accomodate LS in general. Stand by for updates as we make our way.


Greg

InlandSailor said...

The MoYC committee meeting today decided to follow up on the option of LS's and will progress further in meeting with those in the sport and discuss how our venue can be altered to accomodate LS in general. Stand by for updates as we make our way.


Greg

great news, I hope the flood of ideas ,and opinions didnt scare you all off. please keep us posted and see if you can get those photos of the surface, they will tell us quite a lot.
Cheers paul

Greg,

It was great to meet you guys and introduce you to the sport we love.

I hope we will be seeing a contingent from your club at the not only the 2009 Vic Titles, but the Australian Open in March next year.

Brian

Bloody excellent work all you victorians. Less talking and more sailing, can only be a good thing

A further update for you Seabreeze readers/commentators on our progress.
As you all know,the club had a great day courtesy of the Melbourne Karters. If you go to our club web page http://www.freewebs.com/mokoanyc/ and click on the newsletter link, you'll see how it went.
We're now in the process of chasing funding to get 6 Karts and one members has already picked up a couple of near new Blowies to be our first owner.
As far as the track goes, we have found that there is $200,000 set aside for the redevelopment of the Yacht Club into a Community Centre. We're now hinting [lobbying] to have most of that spent on the development of a "mutipurpose sports area" read grassed flat area for the Blokarts. In the meantime we'll get something done on the cheap using some locals and their laser graders/land planes!!!!
Insurance wise because we're a member of Yachting Victoria, the Blowies will be considered as an off water social activity and as such have cover for our club members. It's also handy that they come under the "Blue Book" of sail racing rules. To compete in the State and National Blokart titles, individuals will have to join the Blokart association, just the same as they would to sail in any class associations "on water" titles.
We've been in contact with Access for All [Sailability] regionally and they're enthused with the concept and will help with finding funding for us.
Even though we're making good progress, reaistically, it wont be till next year, some time towards mid year I'm guessing, that we'll be underway in the true sense, but in the meantime we'll probably invite the Melbourne Blowies to come up and help do some demo days.
We've got some ideas as far as sailing goes including putting on some night sailing events and even team racing activities using the bar that hooks 2 BloKarts together. As far as the night sailing goes, well bring a bit of our on water experience to this, with night lights on the blowies and illuminated marks to help "navigation". Would like to do it on one of the sports arenas in Wangaratta with lights. We will need to chase sponsorship to pay for the lights I guess. Wont happen for 12 months I suspect, maybe at the same time as the Jazz Weekend in Wang. when these still a chance of a breeze. Spring is the best for wind here as I guess it is in in most parts of Oz.

Greg

EDIT

The area we have in mind [500m x 500m] will need to be sown down to grass to stop it washing during the wetter months [If we ever have them again]. In the warmer months it will die back to a dry cover.

A couple of years ago we camped at the local footy roung at Dumblyung with a load of sailors to sail on the lake there. I still kick myself for not taking a mini. the drying grassed area was like concrete, kind of sand /clay mix which they love for farming. with a mow it would have been perfect.
A blokart salesman could have sold a few yachts that weekend

Gizmo said...

Has anyone heard how these guys are going?
Did they find yachts? and if they did are they sailing?

I spoke to Greg a few days ago. They are doing well. They have two blokarts and are working on the funding for more. We'll be catching up with a couple of them at our Australia Day event at Oliver's Lake near Horsham.

Brian

With this and other various happenings I believe our sport is really taking off. There is funding available from the taxes we pay.

ALSA needs to get it's act together now or it needs to be dumped as the national representative body for landsailing in Australia. If ALSA has not carried out it's responsibilities, ie AGMs etc, it should be reported to the relevant authority for investigation.

An appropriately worded letter to the Federal Minister for Sport and Recreation may put a cat amongst the pigeons.

Anybody want me to write it??
Cheers Cisco.

I take that on board Laurie. I think generally on our landsailing forum you will find that most of us are trying to get ALSA up rather than bring it down.

There are several of us in the sport who are "orphans" looking for a home.

ALSA keeps it's doors shut and refuses to even talk to us. If the organisation is not what it is supposed to be ie "The National Representative Body", it has two options.

Become that body or declare and get out of the game.

The original "BUZZ"!! I'll never lose that mate and I will always be a landsailor, with or without ALSA. I think there is a huge opportunity at the moment and if nothing is done it may be lost. Cheers Peter.