Well, did you get out there?

Oh well, it's still better than working, right?

The typical wind at el mirage is light in the morning, then builds up during the afternoon. It usually comes in from the west or northwest. During the 'santa ana' season, the wind will be out of the east.

Do yourself a favor, though, and check one of the weather .coms (no seabreeze data for el mirage....) or even one of the phone apps for weather. there are days where the wind is non existant all day, and some days where it might even be too strong for ya..

FINALLY!!!!! Got out there today. I stop my truck, and a toyota truck that was described by dudevato pulls up near me. We shared small talk, then we sailed!

Lake is in great shape, and several sailers besides us were out there. Wind was waaaaaaay more than i wanted (wind 24mph with gusts over 50mph predicted; and i verified 25mph while there) for the first run on the beer-5, but everything worked great I can't get the data off my gps yet, but one of the other sailers took the beer-5 out with his leg mounted gps, and went 56mph in it

Dudevato was still sailing when I had to leave. All in all, a pretty good day in the desert.

The beer-5 was very stable, and I think I'll add another mounting point for the steering rod to slow down the steering a bit. Thanks Paul for sharing the Pacific Magic plans online, as I used them for the basic design.

CHEERS!!!, John

Dudevato break that 58 as soon as you can[}:)] Nikrum's leg aint long enough to reach yo ass from where he is(way way down souff) and any way 's to fat to run after ya ifn he could get to ya

.........ummmmmmmmm.....eeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr...........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....... damn! no camera.....

If i can get the info off the data tracker, I'll send a pic of the screen, tho....

The other guys we met had some nice stuff to sail too. 1 'soup', 1 'fed-5', and a 'fisly-5'. At least I think that's what they were. No one knew what dude's rig was, tho...

YA, we had a day of sailing as DesertYank said. I got there about noon. I was going to stop in at the visitor center and see what they'd tell me, as Anything would be better than just driving out on the lake and setting things up.
As I'm pulling into the parking lot I see a truck with a cart in the back, so I figure he'd know more than a Park Employee, so I follow the truck. Turns out it was the DesertYank.
So we talked a bit and I got in a Full Day of sailing. The GPS DY borrowed I got to use also. I got it to read 41 mph. And I can tell you what you all already know, "with your butt 4 inches (100mm ) off the dirt you are rolling along pretty good.
I was suprized how large the lake was, how smooth the ride was - I had 30 psi in the tires. I figured I was going to rig up some kind of suspension - No need for that.
There was like 5 carts out there and I spoke to 3 sailors total, what a nice crowd. I originally asked the GPS owner if he'd sail along side and yell out the speed we were going, as I had a $10 digital bicycle speedometer rigged up that I stole off my mountain bike. Well, with it set up for the 26 inch tires I had the thing Pegged @ 99.9 mph. The guy hands me the GPS and says 'check it out, and take your time' Wow.
I had a Great time and only stopped sailing to pee a few times and eat a burger I had with me. Is it permitted to drink and sail? I finished off a 40 oz beer. I now realize the glass bottle was not the correct packaging choice. I'll go with aluminum next time.
Tomorrow I'm going to figure out how many miles I put on the cart, my speedo showed 222 miles total for the day, I'd guess I did some 70? I started pulling the cart apart at 6:30.
I've got to comment on DesertYank's cart, Very Nice, nice looking welds, wheels and seating. And if it goes 56mph I need to make one Just like it.
It's going to be a Great, Fun summer