Just letting everyone know that there will be a "pub style dinner (tea)" on Saturday night of the kingston weekend, not sure which hotel it will be as there are 2 in town and by the looks of it we'll need to book a table of about 25. It will be a pay your own way deal for those that want to attend, as soon as i can organize times and location i will post the information both here and on the kingston windfest face book page as well as the south australian blokart club face book page, merry xmas to all
Serviced my Nissan Patrol today and it's almost loaded. (5.6 Mini and a kite buggy, I'm collecting another kite buggy in Adelaide). Lots of kites (31) both power and stunt to suit all wind conditions or lack of.
Just the masts and sails to secure to the roof-rack, and chuck in my clothes.
Just tiding up jobs round the house before I leave on Tuesday Jan 5th.
Going to check out the seafood in Ceduna through to Port Lincoln on my way over. 
Catch you guys there.
On Saturday 23rd January while at the kingston wind fest weeknend i have organized a "meet and greet" dinner the venue will be the Crown Inn hotel 34 Agnes street ,the time for the dinner is set for 7.00pm i have reserved a number of seats for us in the main dinning room,, as I don't know what every one likes to eat i have made it a buy your own meals and drinks, that way everyone can sort themselves out so far as food is concerned. .i have also posted details on the kingston wind fest 2016 face book page and will also have details available at the sailing site... 
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On Saturday 23rd January while at the kingston wind fest weeknend i have organized a "meet and greet" dinner the venue will be the Crown Inn hotel 34 Agnes street ,the time for the dinner is set for 7.00pm i have reserved a number of seats for us in the main dinning room,, as I don't know what every one likes to eat i have made it a buy your own meals and drinks, that way everyone can sort themselves out so far as food is concerned. .i have also posted details on the kingston wind fest 2016 face book page and will also have details available at the sailing site...
Awesome , you de man, are you driving me back to the lake when i get tanked and start singing 
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Ummm no
problem solved , we have been forced to share a cabin in kingston and will now have to cross the street after. might need my hand holding or even a lollipop man 
I look with interest 
but cash flow 
is not good 
have a good weekend 
have to stick to project 
didn' t program entertainmet 
so always next year as long as i live long enough 
Good Winds All............ 
............gibba ( still looking for supply vehicle driver for month of may )
That's not good news Gibber, we are looking forward to catching up with you sometime. Might even do some sailing between chin-waggin :)
Hopefully we will start seeing some lake reports popping up soon. Been watching the weather and not noticed any major rainfall lately. Fingers crossed the weather cooperates for the next two weeks, cool change would be nice :)
some reports from the kite guys, clay is super smooth, dry and great! Winds been 20-25 kph average.
where eactly is rhe area , just incase i get a spit sat lotto,,, worse things have happened.....
Its called lake nadzab and is on the kingston adelaide road aporx 10ks adelaide side of kingston joe
The clay is super smooth with only kangaroo tracks across it. Spent 5 hours buggying in 25knot winds yesterday. Today gusting to 30 knots. All the clay pan is available with no wet patches.
Thanks for the report Chook. Looks like there might be rain Monday (long range forecast), then nothing afterwards. Fingers crossed it's delayed a week or so or just a sprinkle.
driving instructions ons are on page 1 (on the poster)
A little bit of publicity...
www.coastalleader.com.au/story/3662178/land-yachts-back-in-town/
In case I forget later and for those leaving soon, I'll see you all Tuesday. Hopefully be getting there around lunch time. Safe travels and see you on the clay!
Edit: I'll put up a sign on the highway to mark the turnoff to the lake. Not sure what it will say, look like. Keep your eyes open
what an awesome weekend. Bill ben and igot more testing done in a week that ive been able to do inyears. ben and lachlan bothe brokr the golden rule of landsailing etiquette"thou shall not keep up with ,or indeeed overtake, the class 5 yachts". some great yachts and buggies.
ben sailed consistently in the "races' by winning all but 1
Although the class 5's were the fastest thing on the lake , the buggies were able to sail very fast over surfaces thet we didnt have a hope of sailing over. the lake vwas generally nice and dry but the slipperier bits were often in different spots from day to day,so the first sail of the day was to find the slipps.
had fantastic winds EVERY day . we are all getting home now so pics and reports to come
Kingston was an awesome weekend for wind sports enthusiast. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and look forward to next time.
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The 2016 land sailing and windfest is all but over for another year. Blokarts, class 5s, kite buggies and some yachts that just dont fit into a class, all mixing it up and having a great time at a great place for sailing showing that we can all get along and have fun sailing..
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If anyone got any snaps of my rough ply and cable tie mini out sailing I'd love to see them, no one took any from from my camp!
Chook2 wrote:
It was fantastic to meet everyone there. Had a ball and covered 1,189 kms while I was there in both the mini and kite buggy. Top speed in the 5.6 mini with a 6.7 m2 sail in a measured 22 knots of wind was 78.9 kmh and in the kite buggy with a 3.8m2 Vapor kite I got to 78.4kmh. Surface was a bit slippery in the afternoon as the surface wet up. A couple of videos of the event from John H.
landyacht wrote:
what an awesome weekend. Bill ben and igot more testing done in a week that ive been able to do inyears. ben and lachlan bothe brokr the golden rule of landsailing etiquette"thou shall not keep up with ,or indeeed overtake, the class 5 yachts". some great yachts and buggies. ben sailed consistently in the "races' by winning all but 1 Although the class 5's were the fastest thing on the lake , the buggies were able to sail very fast over surfaces thet we didnt have a hope of sailing over. the lake vwas generally nice and dry but the slipperier bits were often in different spots from day to day,so the first sail of the day was to find the slipps. had fantastic winds EVERY day . we are all getting home now so pics and reports to come
As there is already a Kingston2016 thread I'll be moving the contents here to that one. Be good to keep it all in one spot :)
EDIT: DONE! (03/02/16)
More footage of kingston sailing. See the tyre side wall deformation on those fat bike smoothies.
Saltylips wrote:
Very enjoyable time on the clay. Short video of a play with a jib.
Excellent footage guys! keep them coming. Unfortunately my video is still with Dad in Kingston...
