Hi fellow land sailors,
I have been following the forum for a few months now and have decided to join the forum.
I am a blokart sailor from Sydney and am keen to get things going in and around Sydney. At the moment there is a small number of us sailing where ever and when ever we can and I am hoping with the help of the forum we can get to meet other land sailors or potential land sailors to get the sport going in Sydney.
Welcome aboard doc. You will find plenty to keep you interested on this forum and it is really easy to use as well.
The blokart forum seems to have died a death and "bugs" mk2 ie jiglu was hopeless. Check the older threads on this forum. You will find lots of good stuff laced through it.
Cheers from cisco. (blokarter Bundaberg Queensland)
Welcome Doc, good luck getting the blokart action up and running in NSW. That's exactly what this forum is for!! 
Hi there Doc,best of luck with forming a band of blokarters in Sydney,once the word get's out and you get seen you will have a rush of converts i'm sure.We have got a strong core of karters in Mackay,today we had 9 on Bucasia Beach ,(teenage to grandfather)an awesome sight!Mackay would have at least 20 regular karters that i know of, and the number is growing,with plenty more in town which we do not see. happy sailing from Stevo in Mackay
Hi Guys & Girls
My name is Graham have been messing around in wind sports for 35 odd years,got hooked on landsailing and have operating Blokarts for four years.I am involved with the Melbourne Blokart Club at committee level.Since the death of B.U.G.S we have using JIGLU as our message board so any Australian Blokarts feel free to look us up at http://melbourneblokart.jiglu.com/ or our web site at melbourneblokartclub.org.au/.
We are looking at Lake Gillies at easter any info on the event?
Welcome Graham! I've added jiglu to the aussie web sites thread, but unfortunately I can't update the first post any more, so I've added it to the end. I wasn't able to get into jiglu, is it down at the moment?
There's a couple of documents about the easter at Lake Gilles in the photos section. If you need any more info contact David, the president of Adelaide Landyacht club at email address: budrose@picknowl.com.au. David is the one you have to register with anyway.
Cheers
Thanks Hills have emailed David yesterday requesting more info but not had a reply as yet.Any idea of start times and directions to the lake cause we would not want to be late for the start,will blokarts have their own start or will it be a mixture,sorry for being niave but not sure what the go is as have not seen any notice of race.
G
Do you camp at the lake or is there camp grounds?
Hopefully David will reply as I've not been there before. There are absolutely no facilities so I believe you just camp on the edge of the lake. Make sure you take plenty of water.
I've overheard discussions about whether blokarts should race on their own or not, but I didn't hear the outcome. It probably depends on final numbers.
Unfortunately I can't make this year as I'm on call for work and my wife is working but I think it will be a great event.
Unless anyone else in this forum has any info i will just have to be patient and wait for Davids response.
Hi all,
Just thought I would drop in and say hello from the new land kiting forum on Seabreeze, in case you have any doubts I can assure you we are very blokart friendly and it would be great to get out with you guys sometime for a sail/fly, it would make for some great video and some new alliances.
Feel free to drop by and say g'day also if any of you are curious about land kiting for eg buggying or ATB, we are always happy to throw you a buggy and take it for a spin :)
The majority of us so far are based in Sydney.
Regards
V.
I have posted some info on Lake Gillies, sent through by David, under the National Champs thread. Looiing forward to meeting lots of new faces.
Promo Girl
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Currently putting a CL5 together with a lot of help from David Rose (many thanks)and once I get the sail back from Ken I'll rush it out for it's first test, Hi Paul & Sue
Good to see you guys are as active as ever in the sport, looking forward to catching up with you at Easter at one of the best spots to sail on SA has to offer.
Happy sailing
Marty
How ya going ya old fart. I believe I owe you a chock milk and a new barby plate.
I heard a rumour that you will grace us with your presence and that of the lovely Eileen at Lake Gillies?.
I also hear that your yacht is bleedin fast and you havent lost your touch.
Hanging out for a cuddle,
love Paul
Hello,
My name is Juan Enrique Quinones, I am landsailor from Chile, South America.
I am married, I have 2 sons and 2 daughters. I live in Santiago.
I built my first landsailer transforming my kitebuggy by adding a windusurfing mast and a 5.5sq mt sail.
Then I receive some plans from a friend who met Nord Embroden in the north of Chile.
I built my first true landsailer a Pacific Magic ( the plans went half way around the world!!).
Now I have 4 of them and we have constructed 10.
The amazing thing about this is that I met the Pacific Magic designer in Argentina, when I was assemblying for the next race in the World Championship.
Paul and Susan Day, were very helpfull!! letting me to borrow one of their 5.5 meters sail and giving me all kind of tips on how to improve my landsailer, making my experience on the world championship a more enjoyable one.
I hope that some day some of you could come to Chile to be able to share all our landsailing spots with you.
best regards
juan enrique
www.carrovelismo.cl
X17
p.s. please forgive my english.
Welcome Juan!! Your English is better than most of ours, so don't ever let that bother you
Paul and Susan frequent this site as "Landyacht" and "Promo Girl" They'll be very happy to hear from you, as are the rest of us.
I'd love to see some photo's of your Pacific magics, please post some if you can, as I am also a pacific Magic pilot.
Cheers
Phil
Your english is better than most Australian, trust me. Good to hear from you again now that Susan ,myself and the girls are home and back into a routine. On the way home i managed to burst an eardrum descending into Santiago, so Im now almost deaf on the left. When sailing on my left make sure to shout. Hve you guys been thinling about the next yacht?
Cheers Paul.
Excellent photos Jeqs, thanks for posting them!! How did you attach the rescue stretchers at the front? I like that idea a lot!
This thread was too old to add to, this should enable people to continue, so please feel free to tell us about yourselves. 
Hi All! Are you guys Aussies? Do they do this over here in the states? What a blast! In Minnesota I never thought about it because we really don't have a lot of open area that isn't filled with water so ice sailing is big here.
I recently married and will be spending my winters in the Arizona desert and this looks like it might work great for me.
Someone was out on the Sail Design yahoo group discussing sail shape. I would love to talk sails with whomever is interested.
I have been designing custom sails and canvas for almost 10 years now.
My web site is under construction but you can see some of my work there. www.llsails.com
Thanks for sharing your awesome sport with me!
Liz
Hi Liz, welcome to the forum. We're mostly Aussies and New Zealanders here, but our member Kemosabi is from Colorado. Hopefully more from the US will join the forum as we'd love to see what you're up to over there.
Have a look through the construction section, theres a lot of discussion about sail design there.
