Anyone With Some Input

Not quite dinghy development, but pretty close, my newest toy, just finished it the other night, some minor hicups in the design needing refining, i need to make a sail with a tighter leech and add some weight to the extensions, but other than that she went a treat, we timed it over a measured distance and got 18 km/h on the first outing so far so good. Once ive refined it ill send the plans to anyone interested, it hasnt cost much to make at all.

We did this a while ago and called the class the 1DL. We've all still got radio controlled landyachts down in the Southampton area. Here's a picture of us racing at Weymouth in 2002.

We've got all the stuff to build a load more of these and get the circuit going again in 2006. We had 20 out at the nationals in 2000 and it is such a laugh. We regularly clocked them over 30mph sustained speed (GPS).

To see more of the events we ran go to:

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/classes/?s=42&c=124

Is it available as a kit?

Rick

I'm sure it could be - I've got around 10 half-built landyachts at the moment without the rig. The rules we made up had a one-design hull but the rig was open to design as long as the whole landyacht fitted inside a 1.5 m hight by 1 m long by .75 m wide box with the main sheeted fully on. We made a jig for producing the hulls so they were all the same and could mass produce them.

We could knock them up for around £250 quid with 44.1 Mhz RC gear, high speed and strength mainsheet serve (the expensive part) and carbon spars and back axle.

I've been waiting until I built my new garage / workshop until completing them. It would be great if the forum revived this class as it was such fun at the time!