Wok to answer your question.... Would it be 'legal' to road sail in Australia...... Hell NO!!!!, these days you can get a warning for having non-rated D shackles on your tow bar (even if they are hanging there AND your not towing anything). So I've just made a personal guess that sailing down a road would be out as well.
In USA it seems a little easier, but that's there we are here.
This is a pic I found in 1980.


Since then it regularly crossed my mind also, it seems that many countries around the it is quite doable with various sort of yachts.





Could you do a special race / trip on the road possibly. At the same time as the solar race? Those solar cars hoot along at 100km/h +

A torch taped to the mast lights up a sail well for night sailing.....

Good one Chook, I bought some red and some white units. Hope the batteries don't cost the world. You can send some of your rain up to Denham if you like, it's as dry as as as as. Need to soak the ground to get my fenceposts in...Wok

Good thinking BB. The solar car event is such a major one I wasn't surprised they were luke warm about joining. A purely landyacht event such as you suggested would surely raise some interest. I think it would have to be done with official blessings and that makes it a little complicated...W

one of interest ...if it works..German Auto Factory
Germans have a positive trade balance, in spite of paying workers some of the highest wages in the world. It is truly incredible.

mmmm might be left of center a bit perhaps.

well i dont know if i have done some of you blokes a favour, or,

just let you have a free swing at me, but i have broard shoulders, etc.

thanks to a friend i /he managed to repair my crashed web site, walkaboutjoe.com

on this site you will be able to read all about the cross australia run in a landyacht by jeanphillip,

both his version and my australian interprutation. so if you heve never done things like this. dont bag it , read it

and with an open mind form some opinion. Much of my lifes interests are at this site, so when you become as free

as me, we may together have enlightened interaction, in other words dont hide behind your avitar, be totally honest.


edit, seems to be some problem, my friend will looksee, and maybe work his magic.......

B.B. and Gizmo.
I have been looking at traction kites,(the buy and sell section on this site) as I know stuff all about these gadgets it looks like they go by size, just how big do they make these things? and for example how much weight will a 14 meter kite pull? another question is, I was thinking of building with bamboo and wicker for a test rig do you think it would stand up to it?
I bought four wheels and the stub axles today the fun is about to start.

Just got an email with this attachment with it thought I would share as I got a giggle out of it, nope didn't work

I have pics and a fair bit of detail of the one that long time Land sailor Les Damsell "sailed" from John O Groats to Lands End to raise in excess of 3 Million pounds for Muscular Dystrophy. Perhaps if you were to do a charity thing like that you might be able to have some rules "massaged"? He was also involved in the Nat Geo trip on the Sahara.

if you're gunna have anything to do with the kites I'd suggest start off small first, I did,, maybe a 5 meter or something like that just to get the feel of flying them,, traction kites generate a lot of power, I have one here that has lifted me off the ground by, they say a meter, and dumped me back down on my backside, and I'm not a small person by any means,,they can be DANGEROUS if you're not carefull with them when you're first starting out, most power kites are soft that is they have no frame so they fold up into a fairly small space, and they are controlled by at least 2 and mostly 4 lines attached to a handle or bar, they take a bit of practise to get to fly but once you get the hang of it it's fairly easy.. The other kite option i'd look at is what's called a lifting kite, imagine a rectangle shape and that's what most lifting kites look like they generate lots of power that can be used for either lifting and mostly use only 1 very thick line,, lifting kites have been around for 100's of years and were used in early wars to lift observers into the air to "spy" on the enemy...I'd be getting in touch with a kite shop in Hobart or a kite maker over your way and speak to them,, Tassie has some brilliant kite makers, check you're phone book or google kite shops or kite makers in Tassie... A square rigger would be good but don't forget you still have to get it up and over sand dunes and such....

You could do both, a square rigger and for those qccassions when a bit extra power is needed launch a kite as costner did in water world

Test Pilot 1
I was over your way not long ago and had a look about the old Kinross mine(I think that's wow it's spelled) I crossed a big dry lake and wondered if you have sailed on it?

ThundaUp said..
The possibility's are endless, I just hope someone else would like to have a crack at a project like this.

sent u an email to the address you gave me not sure if you got it or not BB