Hey, was around a mates place today, and we stuck a rig on his old skate board, was kinda tricky... and quite unstable, plus needed a fair amount of wind to go... Anyone had any experience making one of these, maybe with a long skate board. would be cool if it could go on grass, when its really light wind. Plus it has to be cheap. The cheaper the better.

I used to do that a lot on big carparks when I was frustrated by the lack of wind..you really don't need much wind..an old 4.5m and very ligth wind is perfect to do lots of tricks, backwind etc...plus if you have good skate skills you could even do some aerial gybe/willy skipper kind of move ( I can't I am a crap skateboarder).
As for fixing a rig onto a skate nothing is much easier, just drill a little hole in the skateboard for the screw thread to go through the board and the square nut to be just behind the front truck. This way when you screw the mast foot the square nut is blocked (from rotating) by the truck . Easy and you only have a little hole in the board!

Fish is right , I saw some cheap longboard skate with big wheel in Kmart/BigW toy area .. would do perfect for grass

Thanks for the plug grumple....
have a great one for sale cheap, call 0433 826366 and you can demo...

Rich relative, i would reply but us poor relatives are fueding with your side of the family and i cant go against the family.
anyway how is auntie rich?

Hey Filth,

I used to use a skateboard on netball courts.
But you need the super smooth surfaces that are about 8 courts wide.
Much easier than a rough road or carpark.

Super fast with a 4.5. Easier to teach friends. My uncoordinated land loving buddies could join in.

When I went to the UK I didn't sail so I bought one of the offroad skate boards with the numatic tires..... but there was too much rolling resistance so needed lots of forward drive in the legs and uni joint. The grass does not give you much ...ummmm...
fin pressure. You know what I mean.

Stick to the skateboard with super tight trucks and the one handed laydown jybes and moves you can't do on the water will come. Goodluck with the forward though!

Ash

www.buhalaboards.com ,check em out.

I have one where I have welded a half inch pipe across the bottom of the trucks in order to take pneumatic wheels about 8" diameter. Goes awesome on wet sand and grass etc. A longer deck is better so it doesn't speed wobble so bad and is not so tight turning at speed... mine is about 800mm long.

You cant weld the (steel) pipe straight onto the (alloy) trucks but I have a trick to overcome that. Can email photos if you like.