HISTORY LESSON TO FOLLOW
As far as I know this information is correct . any body who can finnd out more on this particular subject I for one would aprecciate your input.
This was told to me by father , who spent 23 years in the transport division of the RAF. The relevence of that will be obvious.
The wheel that we refer to as the wheelbarrow was designed as a quick cheap wheel for trolleys carrying bombs and munitions out to aircraft on the Tarmac . The tyres were designed to have just the right amount of suspension that the trolleys did not need springs and did not use excessive amounts of Rubber.. I have related this information from my father to others with a similar military background to my Dad and they agree with him.
Sorry I cant take the claim for that one.
PERSONAL DESIGN RESUME TO FOLLOW
The only "designs" I can take credit for are the Original club 88. I was given the task by SAngropers in 1987 to look at all the designs at the world champs. then come back to Aus and design a one design club yacht. The original batch of steel for the chassis was the wrong type and instead of throwiing away the chassis and starting again with the right stuff, The welder on the project. known here as B4U. started adding a series of square tubes, braces and that hideous holden waterpump pulley . this was consistent with the way he built all his previous machines. the new PROMO design is basically what the club 88 should hace looked like. The seat for the club 88 was built from a set of cardboard templates which I supplied to the great STAN SHARP . he was a boatbuilder and the fibreglasser on the project took the 2 templates ,but only used the side template. I used these same templates on the new PROMO seat.
I'm pleased to say that the CLUB 88 is still being built by the Sandgropers and is a credit to the club that has kept landsailing alive in WA
The next design was the "VIKING" designed and built in 1991. 3 are still sailing .in
WA .
After some experiments in OTT chassis, and 4 yachts being built ( 2 sailing, 2 unknown whereabouts) I built a yacht originally christened the DESERT EAGLE. this was later renamed the PACIFIC MAGIC because a number of NZ,US,UK,BE,and AUS sailors wanted to promote it as a one design. The seat design was altered to the one we see today. that work can be credited to the skills of Adelaide sailor Martin Bell. one of the group that rekindled the Adelaide LYC in the late seventies.
15 yachts were Registered with me before pilots started adding bigger wheels, and grafting the british FED 5 design to it. end of class yacht. I am pleased to discover that the yacht that went to the US ended up being used as the basis for a small fleet in Chile and Argentina. although the PM doesnt fit the new PROMO specs it has heped the sport along internationally which was the intention of the group that asked for the design .
After a few years building schooners, canoes sheds and a business the urge to design came with a desire to sail past a BLOKART.
This led to the design of the MINI EXPLORER , and a class 5 to the new International PROMO specifications.
By my tally and defining a design as say 4 identical yachts, Ive 7 designs to my name.there are some 20 other individual yachts.. These I usually refer to as EXperiments . EG experiment 055 PIGS MIGHT FLY.
AND IVE JUST STARTED
That taper was the hardest part of building the PM!!
