The last time we went to ivanpah dry lake a guy from nalsa showed up with this new home built mini. It's built for
speed, not comfort. Pretty fast little yacht. Has a carbon fibre sail built some where in california. Little rich for my
blood. Reminds me of the sign on the auto parts house I use to go to. "speed cost/how fast do you want to go".
This is the only decent picture my wife got before he was gone. I think she was trying to get a picture of the
train in background. Looks like he has very little luff curve.
Couldn't be a 5.6 Mini.... the wheels are to big, the front wheel looks like a 20" and the back ones are the same size, chassis looks to long / to big.
Maybe a Class5?
This is Terry Fulbright's class 2 mini, it is a cut down Fed 5, He is repsonsible for the mini's in the US, the class 2, mini have the same foot print as a Manta single, the US class 3 mini is smaller and falls into the 5.6 mini spec's./Burt
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The last time we went to ivanpah dry lake a guy from nalsa showed up with this new home built mini. It's built for
speed, not comfort. Pretty fast little yacht. Has a carbon fibre sail built some where in california. Little rich for my
blood. Reminds me of the sign on the auto parts house I use to go to. "speed cost/how fast do you want to go".
This is the only decent picture my wife got before he was gone. I think she was trying to get a picture of the
train in background. Looks like he has very little luff curve.
there was another pic of it up last year just after the FISLY 5.6 rules were anounced. .thanks for that shot as I can now see how he gets away with centre sheeting. sweet
If I recall the sail was a smaller class 5 sail. with that heavy sheeting system the sail could work really well
That size landyacht could be very easy to transport as airline luggage. I like it alot!
What are the rules for the US class 2 Mini ? I cant seem to find them on the NALSA website.
a few years ago i saw the rules floating around as proposed rules.
I dont know if they were passed.
they had a class1,2 and 3 mini . the idea was to incorporate all the small US yachts into raceable groups.
at that point the rules got complicated with all sorts of weight limits.
you could see straight away that special yachts would be built to fit the specific class, so the existing yachts wouldnt be able to compete. a class5 would be a mini class 1 i think.
the rules are somewhere in the seabreeze archives somewhere
