Hi. I'm heading out to the Burning Man festival week after next and thought the Black Rock Desert near Reno would be the perfect place to try land sailing.

I can't afford a lot for a landsailer, but would be interested in hearing if anyone along the Colorado Front Range has one for sale.

On the assumption that I'll be building, rather than buying, I need to put something together quickly, and will be using wood.

My main challenge is attaching wheels/axle. Any suggestions for off-the-shelf parts I could use? The plans posted on this site are great, but I don't have the time needed. I'm thinking of checking out go-kart parts, to see if I could modify those, but I thought I'd ask this forum before I go down that path.

Where do you folks get your hardware locally?

My second question concerns design. I can't understand why all the landsailers I've seen on the Web have two wheels in the back. My understanding is that two wheels up front provides better stability in cornering for other types of vehicles, and I'm planning on building mine that way. Any reason not to?

I have a lot of experience with boats, already have a couple of sailing rigs from some canoe-sailing experimentation I've done, but this is an exciting variation!

Regards,

Erik Ness
erik_ness@nrel.gov

I am keen to build a landyacht, but as landyachting isnt very big in australia, their are no metric plans. I have downloaded the plans from windisfun.com but the conversion rate was to tedius for all the dimensions.
Could anybody out there please help me!!!!!

Fraser

Why build when you can get a blokart. The blokart will blow everyone away, it fits in the trunk of your car and only takes five minutes to put together so you can sail on every lakebed on your way to Burning Man, giv me a call for a special deal, 1 877blokart