Its only 1280km from my house, that's almost half way between us.

heres the 9am wind datawww.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_011003.shtml
seabreeze by 9am and still blowing its guts at 3pm

I COULD BE AN INTERESTED PARTY TO THIS BEACH PARTY. DO YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS, AND HOW WIDE IS IT?

I do recall the comment at the time that it would have to be a boys trip. I hope shes not getting any ideas of running it for me.
A club 88 could do it. But fit some hand steering in case you need to shove over the odd dune.
From the beach I saw and the wind and tide data I think that Cape Le Grande beach would be the best comparison. Basically a massive broad reach with the occasional more downwind leg as the beach scallops a bit. the 2 Date windows i posted give a morning low tide at 7.00 am but the high is at 9.00 pm. ie 1 tide. Our experience at this time of year is that the chances of light winds in
January are almost nil ,so that would be my choice. I will be inclined to take a class 5 if the beach is really wide on the day. I will be fitting a cam cleat to the sheeting so I can have a sleep and still sail.
I plan to also take a mini in case the beach is narrower or there is a softer bit that needs negotiating.
We will need a couple of people willing to take a turn driving the support 4WD(s) and try to make it possible that everybody gets a go.
I suspect we could do the beach in 2 days of sailing to the west.

CISCO? recently showed some photos of some6x8 2ply ribbed fatties that would fit the mini. I might try to get some and see if they fit.
this beach is just soooooooo tempting,and it was there all along.

G'day evereyone,

Lindsay & I used the kite buggy tyres on a "baby" faze5. You can go anywhere, but they are relatively heavy and more so for a little yacht. 600x6 aero tyres would be much faster and more than enough for a blokart / mini yacht to go on soft stuff (and they are much tougher). Probably woudn't need to go to 800x6. You'd want a bigger tyre on front of blokart as well.

Lindsay had 600x6 on at gillies.

these are the ones Gizmo found . I will investigate further. I d like to stick to the 8" rims now Ive got this far

so do you fancy a bit of beach driving in my 100 series tojo, or do yuo want to try out a landyacht

Went to buy some fat tyres from hong kong hardware .... SOLD OUT
They dont know when they will get more in as they deal mainly in surplus stuff..
but i will keep an eye on them as i go past often....

Test pilot 1 said...

Sounds like a good test for our three seater. 1pilot 2 suckers for ballast 1 trailer for goodies

you'll have to start seriuosly learning to sail downwind TP1. but yes it would be feasible. i would be inclined to leave out the passengers. A simple rule is if you take it , YOU push it. Is a mini sounding any better?

I would love to come on this trip to Eucla but it's just too far for us. Maybe at a later time next year. On a point of interest about back-up. It would be very good if the back-up vehicles carried an extra battery each. The two batteries can be joined together (24V) and used to weld any broken (steel) L/Y. Take a set of good (heavy) jumper leads as they make excellent welding leads. Use 2.5mm welding rods (Satincraft are excelent) and carry a welding helmet or shield. The batteries will work as a DC welder and will do a perfect weld. To ajust the amps, clamp a strip of 25mm x 1.5mm x 500mm stainless steel to a battery terminal and move the welding lead along the stainless steel strip to get the amps required. Try this at home first, you will be quite surprised at how great this works.

Kody

The idea of having passengers is that they push, after all, no "free" rides.ay ay ay!