oh so I guess now is as good a time as any....The South Australian blokart and land sailing club is up and running, or should I say up and sailing As the name suggests we are a state wide club and also as the name suggests we cater for those that sail blokarts and those that sail land yachts. We are still in the process of crossing the I's and dotting the T's but in essence we are a bonifide club with a constitution and INSURANCE.
We welcome anyone who has a desire to give blokarting and or land sailing a try or anyone who is looking for an alternative to what is currently available here in SA.
We run blokart, class 5 and an open class which is a sort of "run what you brung" class, we welcome everyone and as long as people comply with the rules of our club no one will be turned away..
We have several sites around Adelaide that we sail and several sites around the sate that we have access to also for "away trips" and sailing weekends away.
Our club has a strong focus on family participation and when not sailing we still are planning to have social "outings" as a club eg BBQ's, play ground get togethers with the family and so on.....
We have set up a face book page for information and anyone who wants to look at photo's and such like, Our facebook page is... South Australian blokart and land sailing club every one is welcome to stop by for a look or to join the Dark Side. So stop on by the facebook page and join us,,, remember "the force is strong on the dark side"

an amendment of the above post.. Due to certain "complications" that have arisen since my posting this, we as a club have decided to distance ourselves from the land yacht side of the club and focus solely on blokarting, we will be known as the South Australian Blokart club,,,we will still have a facebook page for those that want to have a look at what we are doing, the South Australian blokart club, all other detail will remain the same as before with the exception of the land yachts.. At some future point in time we may be able to cater for those that wish to land sailing but for the time being as I said we are now concentrating on blokarting. By doing this we hope to avoid any clash with any other club or group or assoc, but having said that, if you think that you might want to give blokarting a crack then by all means look us up on facebook and came and have some fun.

Yeah like "e said all blowkarts are landyachts but all landyachts are not blowkarts Just like all hens lay eggs but not all eggs are laid by reptiles

Pretty sure any type of yacht will be more than welcome at the event

Hi Pete,
While you still have the receipt for Bunnings take the wheels back (they are to soft for a land yacht and you will need to replace them within a short time, so a waste of money) Go to Adelaide Merchandising just off Richmond rd. and get some plastic 'Fallshaw' wheels.
admerch.com.au/

I hope you have seen the thread of how to build a Lefroy mini yacht on seabreeze.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Land-Yacht-Sailing/Construction/Build-a-Landyacht-Lake-Lefroy-Mini-Yacht/

Send me a message if you need anymore info.... I'm in Adelaide also.

Don't worry if A.M. arent open, still plenty to do.

Thanks Chook. Will enquire with AM on Thursday regarding those specs. Just swung past and they're closed with a sign on the door.

Gizmo, just wondering where one would sail around the Adelaide metro area. I was thinking of the beach between Grange and Semaphore. That's normally pretty quiet.

Also, any idea what the reg's are for sailing on a beach in SA ?

Chook2 said..


You can also get Fallshaw steering head bushes for 20mm shaft. "SB 20" is the part number (about $1.70 each from memory)
They fit into exhaust tube "sn" said. ( I have just machined up heavy walled water pipe, for them to fit, as that's what I had on hand).

Grey are SB 3/4", black are SB 20mm ID, Inside diameter.
Your going to just love these LLMini's

When the beaut blokes at the "Easyroll Materials Handling" warehouse in Perth gave me these bushes to try out, I took the 3/4" and 20mm bushes into an exhaust shop, and found they were almost an interference fit with exhaust tube.
[external dimensions are identical on both- only the I.D. is different]
They gave me some offcuts to mess about with, gave the tube a couple of little dimples with a centrepunch and it became a nice tight fit.

stephen