Gizmo said...

The difference between why and if?
WHY means it did happen and IF means it may not have happened... and it did happen right?

BeeGee
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This attitude of yours and your need to defend/conquer the sport of
Landsailing/Blokarts is unnecessary and possibly bad for your business.
I have no intention in future to respond to this thread due to your present unhelpful attitude.

talk about attitude

Thanks, Hills.

I have no problem with a bit of fun sparring - "Class 5s are faster than blokarts", and so on. Where I have a real problem is where people start throwing around supposed safety issues. It doesn't matter whether it is against blokarts, Lake Lefroy Minis, Phoenix Swifts, or anything else. There IS a line and crossing it can cause serious damage.

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test pilot,......... Hot air Balloonists, now there is a bunch who really get into the nitty gritty , of regulations, and they just love to argue and call each other names. I think THEY would hold the gold medal for Dummy Spits in "SPORT" I think this forum is only kindy grade, by comparison

As the originator of this post can I plead with all of you to give up on all the stuff relating to anything other than the original question?
Give it a rest guys, you are not helping anyone with an outside interest in the sport to feel good about getting (re)involved.
Seabreeze has become a "shop front" for the sport. Right now it's heading into the ghetto.
FWIW I know a lot of the names round here as having VERY long history in the sport. I won't name any, but some of the aspersions being cast are so far off the mark that the writers are making themselves look foolish. And that's on both sides of the fence.
Lighten up! I have yet to see any sheep stations being won and lost in this sport. (Despite what the Emir of Qatar asked me when I raced there!)

lights out and time for bed I think

Arjay said...

Hey!! Just for interest sake, I threw my legs out of the Blokart today, with pod attached and easily put both feet on the ground.(Wouldn't do it if it was going but then why would I want to??) Now what does "enclosed bodies" really mean??
Food for thought!!

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my daughter can do that when she limbers up for gymnastics, sadly my old bones are just way beyond that point!

Go for it , This sport Has been draged into the gutter by a small group , and Some off us have had enough, If it isnt stopped it would be with in the sports best interest to get rid of the forum

aus230 said...

get rid of the forum,you have to be joking its the best thing that has happened to promote land yachting. The problem is that people are not thinking of the concequences before the answer, there is nothing wrong with different points of view (that is how new ideas develop) but should not be taken or infered to a personal level, we should treat other people the same as we would like to be treated ourselves.
Sorry about the infered swearing in one of my posts but I could see the way this was all heading.
onwards and upwards
Cheers
AUS230

Fair comment,
But may be those that throw stones should get thier arms cut of, eg removed from the forum

As the originator this thread was started with the best intentions to ask some very simple questions.
Along the way it gathered a lot of irrelevant "stuff" (to be polite!)
I have no objection to the thread being deleted, it's a shame that this may be the only way forward.
Now I know that this forum is not the "official voice" of ALSA, perhaps the correct and current rules for the classes could appear in the sticky which has rules, provided of course this is the official version.
In my opinion this thread deteriorated as people appeared to be speaking officially and others leaped in.

Very good comment,
on the money, As to the rules we will be racing under rules as put up in the events page re 2010 event
And yes the correct rules shold be posted or is that going to start more?
Now i will melt away with no more to add,

Also rules for Class V, please.

Thanks Vic, I would love to attend that event. Just have to see how the $$$ are by the end of the year. I will suggest it to our members. Must be a lot cheeper than going to Ivanpah.
Could you tell me more about the venue. How big is the coarse? what type of surface? Wind strengths?

Hi Clem,
Bazl is probly the best to tell you the size of the course, It is quite an exciting course with lots of change in directions, The surface it sort of fine gravel, can be rough in some areas and soft in other areas. It requires a lot of skill to get around it and the local sailors go at it real hard. The wind is around 25ks most afternoons at that time of the year. Landyacht can you add anything that I have missed.
Cheers
AUS230

Ok I've tried to clean this up and remove everything that clearly contravenes our rules.

Feel free to continue but any personal insults and swearwords will be removed.

you could pop up to Kalgoorlie after , sail Lefroy and fly out from Kalgoorlie to Melb for $178

I think Val managed Kalgoorlie to rockhampton for about $1100 return. nearly half of that is the Kalg-Perth legs