I must admit....that i dont know who these people are except they say they are fellow landyachters. This would have to say that a working disclosure of who one is , re members id is needed for integrity. Most genuine posters here are fairly easy to discern that they are genuine. I thought the thread was covering some good ground that could assist landyachting in general. So being pirates aboard they should ....walk the plank...........[}:)] it may even cause me not to be so open

I think these people need to put up the reason....
They did what they did?
Why they did it?
What they hope to achieve?
And why they thought they have the right to do it?
Not under an anonymous names or group names but their REAL NAMES.....

And please explain why I have been anonymously contacted (by them) on several occasions with threats, accusations, insinuations and abuse.

I will give them until 7pm Sunday evening 12th Feb 2012 to respond to these questions.
If they choose not to respond to this forum (which would be very foolish), after that point I will consider my options in passing on the names, addresses and phone numbers (which are ALL public record) of those people involved in this action to other REAL people who participate on this forum and possibly the police.

People on this forum should NOT assume that we will be invited or welcome in their circus....
Land Sailing in Australia as we know it is now virtually dead!!!
The way I see it unless you are prepared to abide by "their" rules / regime, your on your own, and part of that is participating in (non approved by them) forums..... doubt it?...... that's part of the "expected" conditions of belonging to the ALYC.

this is all just to stupid for words, something that is spose to be fun has now dropped to the level of mud slinging and i for 1 don't wish to become involved with anything or anyone that has to resort to this sort of crap just to prove a point,, I will stil go ahead with the misfits here in SA as a social sailing group/club but as for any involvment with any National body I'd rather stick hot pins in my eyes...I came into this sport because it was a fun thing to do, but now i have to wonder if it's all worth it, i doubt that I'll ever compete on any national level so i can't see the point of all this....I'm sorry but it's all bull****,,,,how could we ever hope to attract people to this sport with all this going on........well all i have to sayis.........MISFITS RULE OK so while howm ever it is, is trying for global domination or what ever the hell they're trying for I'll just be out sailing and anyone is welcome to join me........

BB57,
I hope that your remarks were not directed at me or what I said.. I am suggesting that the disbandment of ALSA is not all BAD.. If Members insist there is now a great opportunity to Start a New National Body.. I am also suggesting that those Wreckers who are causing problems on this Forum Should Be Named in a File so that we can see who they are and take their words for what they are worth.
Do not Allow disunity destroy this forum or Camaraderie, if we do The Wreckers have won..

Ron

Lets move on, If ALSF want to get there federation going good luck to them. Going by the emails that I have received they are not even happy to do that.

To help them along here is there web site again and it may contain a pic or two of there steering committee.

www.australianlandyachtingfederation.com/

I personally would like us to focus our time and effort on promoting land yachting, I don,t agree that it is the end of land yachting in AUS. The Sandgropers has a very good club, the Lefroy club is increasing it numbers, The misfits will succeed , Esperance numbers are building and there are yachts being built all over the world because of this forum.

Cheers
aus230

aus230 said...

Lets move on, If ALSF want to get there federation going good luck to them. Going by the emails that I have received they are not even happy to do that.

To help them along here is there web site again and it may contain a pic or two of there steering committee.

www.australianlandyachtingfederation.com/

I personally would like us to focus our time and effort on promoting land yachting, I don,t agree that it is the end of land yachting in AUS. The Sandgropers has a very good club, the Lefroy club is increasing it numbers, The misfits will succeed , Esperance numbers are building and there are yachts being built all over the world because of this forum.

Cheers
aus230

yeh i agree, let them do what ever it is they want to do and lets try and repair the damage done, if they want to do thier thing let them,, like i said it's a free country, they can do their thing we'll do ours and like i said I'll put my time into promoting this as a family fun sport/pastime and yeh we'll just do our thing, i'm not going to tell anyone what to do or how to do it i just know how i intend to do it, i hope you're right and the misfits go forward.. time to get back to grass roots and start having a bit of fun again.......

I think the way this thread is going, all we're doing is perpetuating the issue. I know at least one of their crew would be very happy with this thread and I suspect the number of blocked emails in my spam filter will increase now.

I would prefer to let them do their thing, I don't believe anyone on here or in the clubs listed above will ever be welcome in ALYF and as Vic said there are now enough clubs that, should we see the need, we could always start another national association.

But until that time, lets let them pursue the political/profit making side of land sailing and wish then the continued success they've experienced so far and we'll pursue the fun/social/technical/construction side of land sailing on here.

As said before by many of you, lets keep our side of land sailing fun, like this forum always intended.