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Perfect sailing weather

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Created by desertyank > 9 months ago, 4 Jan 2011
desertyank
1262 posts
4 Jan 2011 4:04AM
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NOT!!!!!!!!!!!




Guess I gotta wait a while.... Plus El Mirage isn't even close to dry...

Hiko
1229 posts
4 Jan 2011 5:12AM
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Crikey!!! I know what it is but here we only see it on Xmas cards

j murray
SA, 947 posts
4 Jan 2011 8:23AM
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SOOooooooooo..... I would be content..... to put another log on the fire

have a Rum or two and a bit of kiss and cuddle

hills
SA, 1622 posts
4 Jan 2011 8:32AM
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Now you just need to swap your wheels for blades and find a frozen lake!

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
4 Jan 2011 9:10AM
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Thats just silly!!!!!!!

Be more careful with your shaving cream.

Test pilot 1
WA, 1430 posts
4 Jan 2011 2:30PM
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Dont change 'em for blades. Change 'em for skis and tells us pictorially how you go.

oldMXer
130 posts
4 Jan 2011 3:11PM
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www.journalgazette.net/article/20110102/LOCAL07/301029893/1043/LOCAL07 ice looks perfect here, but ....... have fear. this occured saturday 'bout fifty miles north of me.

desertyank
1262 posts
4 Jan 2011 4:20PM
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I came closer to Joe's response. Had a few beers, and stayed indoors with the wife. Now if El Mirage's water would freeze........[}:)]

desertyank
1262 posts
6 Jan 2011 3:45AM
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This does NOT look good........




Maybe pontoons/outriggers?!?!?!?

Test pilot 1
WA, 1430 posts
14 Feb 2011 12:28AM
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We had reports of Lake lefroy being in perfect conditions yesterday so I went there today arriving around 10am. The wind was a constant 20+kph with some stronger sustained gusts blowing from ne/e and wouldn't you know it, after ensuring I had fresh batteries in my GPS and a fully charged video camera I left the$$%%^&*(*(** things home! Again!
Still, the sailing was superb. I fought my way upwind to the causeway, looking for the old club house, this took me a good hour and a half of tacking, managing to avoid getting bogged numerous times around old drill holes. Did not find old club house, just areas where the minig companies had built rock pads out to some drill sites. Having found my way there, I knew where the smooth salt was for the trip back and it was an almost straight run back to my car.
Have you ever put your landyacht axle in a vice and used water or compressed air to spin the wheel until the vibrations from it bing out of balance nearle takes it out of the vice and the bearings start screaming?
Well thats what it felt like and sounded like with all three wheels screaming across the salt. I have never been so exhilarated or so **** scared in my life. Every time I hit a ridge line in the salt, I would literally fly a couple of metres and land with a slight bump, never losing it though I sure thought I would. My yacht was humming from the vibrating wheels. I was in nirvana. It was very surrealistic. I did not have the sail fully sheeted in, I was relaxed with the sheet locked in my hands to my waist, my feet relaxed but locking the steering and I am sure I was travelling above 140kph at least. Normally you can see the brown dirt spots quite easily but hese where blurring past.
I kept thinking that the wind was going to change or I am going to hit a soft spot with one wheel and crash big time but it kept going straight. It took me an hour anf a half to get there. It took about 10 to 15 minutes to get back. And I cant prove any of it.
When I deliberately slowed and stopped I could not see the horizon behind me as a rain front was obscuring it. I crossed to the first pond and sailed around to stop the jitters and bleed off a bit of the adrenalin overload I was experiencing and when the rain hit and drenched me i sailed back to my car, disassembled my yacht and drove home. By the time I had paced th car there was 10 mm or more on the lake and ponds and I had to drive along the muddy road out to the highway. It rained all the way home all 80+kms and we had ove 36mm in the rain since I left in the morning.

Nikrum
TAS, 1972 posts
14 Feb 2011 10:18AM
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What the Hell is the Matter with you TP1?? Hmmm??
I don't give you a great deal of credit for sense, now. GPS and Camera. One should have a Box to transport Tools and REQUIRED STUFF!! I learned that when Hang Gliding it was no fun to turn up at your Flying Venue to find you had left Battens at Home 100Km away.
Sounds like you enjoyed the experience though..
Ron

Desertyank,
Have you ever thought of using Combination Wheels and Skis?? Could be interesting running from shore to lake shallows at-----Let's say--------Ah!----------80kmph/40Mph.
Ron

j murray
SA, 947 posts
14 Feb 2011 10:56AM
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So...test pilot you won't be going to heaven, you've.... BEEN..

bryan
WA, 121 posts
14 Feb 2011 10:07AM
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I was on Lefroy on Saturday with Colin, Kalgoorlies newest Blokarter, called Paul and said its exellent, strong Easterly and salt smooth as a billard table.

We also went across the lake to the St Ives causeway, an 11km run. It was great sailing, going flat out every where, the wind dropping us back to 20 kph briefly then back to 60 kph in about 30 sec.

Stopped in the lee of an island on the St Ives side, climbed to the top for a look around and a rest. Rain had washed mud off the side we climbed out onto the salt for about 30 meters, leaving hard salt with a very greasy surface. We went sideways as we came in to park, and after some discussion thought it would be a whole lot of fun to sail flat out onto the muddy area.

It was, after about 10 minutes we were all slid out, generous amounts of mud going everywhere


, Colin learning about Blokarts going sideways!



I had my GPS on board, max speed 63.8kph, trip was 49.2km, avg speed 27km, travel time 1h 49m

bryan
WA, 121 posts
14 Feb 2011 10:24AM
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3rd photo of me at Esperance on the beach about 4 years ago, woops, included somehow??

Fun then......fun now.

desertyank
1262 posts
14 Feb 2011 11:22AM
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Thank you TP1!!! Sounds like the perfect day. Hopefully I can post a story or 2 like that when our playground dries out

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
14 Feb 2011 9:12PM
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had to work, all rained out by the time I got therenot happyneed holiday

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
15 Feb 2011 5:54PM
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Gee Paul I'll put the kettle on!!!

Always a beer in the fridge here bloke.

Chook



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