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Hy there,
my name is Enrico and I live in Rome. Do you think Italy is not the best place for landyachting? Well, we don't sail on beaches and deserts, but we've got some amazing spots on grass. In my home spot in Rome I have at least one session every month. These fields are pretty different from beaches because they're not so flat. We share this spots with Class 8 pilots and you've to be skilled enough to go up and down the field without losing speed. It's a good training.
I currently sail a Seagull Miniclub, my first home built yacht has gone by now. It was lot of fun, but not so easy to carry around. Since 1999 I've been travelling and sailing all over the world, but my favorite spot is still Le Touquet, in France. Very tough sailing there.
I wish to thank all the people in this forum, my favorite one especially for home building inspirations!
Cheers
Enrico
Welcome Enrico. Your landsailing area looks very challenging. I hope you post more photos and tell us some stories about landsailing in Italy. Where I live most of my sailing is on grass but it is very flat. Cheers Cisco
Hi Enrico great to hear of you and your exploits , I hope you contribute more 
into our "Pizza" of home builds.....cheers ..walkaboutjoe
Hi there,
thank you for your welcome!
Here we're a bunch of few landsailors, about 20, some of them with landyachts, especially Seagulls, and others with blokarts. We often go sailing in France or in Belgium or Ireland, but some places here are very nice spots.
In Italy there's a very long beach on the east coast (Cervia - 44°15’59 N, 12°21’32 E), while you can find some others huge sandy spots in the south-east part of Sardinia.
Grass, we have enough! In Rome (41°51’04.61” N, 12°38’12.68” E) and on a highland at 3100 feet above the sea level, about 150 miles north of Rome (Monte Petrano - 43°31’08.43” N, 12°36’49.76” E). There's another spot not far from Monte Petrano, it's an airfield on grass (Castiglione del Lago – 43°08’12 N, 12°01’57 E), but up to now I've never been there.
Some pics of the spot in Rome and, yes, we can even go uphill!
Cheers - Enrico
And this is my home build yacht, a beach south of Rome, December 1999.
Fiat car hubs and wheels for the rear axle, Vaurien rig, aluminium bars for the chassis. Despite how it looks, it was very light, but the mast was too uncomfortable to carry on the roof of my car.
Cheers - Enrico
Hi Enrico
Thank you for posting your pictures Very interesting seeing what you guys get up to
I havent tried that sort of rough terrain landyachting myself but I can see it would be a lot of fun I Must try it
Being a heavy sort of guy I think I would need quite a big sail for that
Best regards from New Zealand
Hiko
g'day enrico,welcome to seabreeze, glad all our construction fun is being read around the world.
your first landyacht is not so different from many of the yachts weve all built
youve just added another place in the world for us to go and sail
Enrico ....that's what we like Fast Italian women and landsailer's
Armour......Armour......Armour
