well after getting the clearance from the doc to go "sailing" again finnally got out on the sand on the weekend and as i was rounding a mark that i had set up i wondered to myself what sort of 'g' force would be pulled in a tight turn at speed say 50 plus kph,, has nyone ever tried to record the g forces generated by a land yacht at speed in a turn maybe i should not be thinking of such things but i did..
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that makes absoultly no sense at all

Couple of ales helps too.

IMHO if you are generating substantial G force you have to be scrubbing off speed. If you then take the view that you are trying to get around a course as quickly as possible, you do every thing you can think of to maintain the speed, so G is as small as possible.
Then again if you are just hooning generating G is great, but 720 degree spins are way more satisfying if you can keep on going at near undiminished speed

GPS Tracks can supply G-force readings

Reckon Landyacht might have a couple of tracks lying around that might be instructive...

The way I look at it, to pull high G in a corner means you are not losing traction other wise you would be sliding and therefore G would be less. If you lose traction you are losing speed therefore(ergo) high G would = high speed.
This all assumes you are not tipping over instead!

Road cars on tarmac will struggle to hit 1G lateral load. I've been in racing cars that do more, but they are special cases with very sticky tyres, not like a landyacht at all.

With your normal landyacht and a coefficient of friction less than 1 (as you would expect in normal sailing) I'd expect less than 1 G lateral load, no matter how hard you tip it in.

or shoes,pretty game or foolish i reckon.

phhhh, he wasnt even sheeted in, i might have to send the kids over to show em how.
to get some good G you need a really grippy surface and then get the yacht to properly drift, say good clay or smooth tarmac , with the tyres smoking on the turns,
so how big is a G meter and how much and where do you get them. i will now go and have a look at some GPS
edit- oops , wifey has all gps on hers
but i can tell you that VINDICATOR has a 4 way harness , with shoulder straps because when you accelerate up from 85 your feet want to leave the stering pedals and it really cuts into the shoulders