Re: Bolgeresque landyacht

--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Hallman <bruce@h...> wrote:

> > if your building a landyacht put the single steering wheel at the
> > front. trust me on this..
>
> How do the stern wheels fail?
> I imagined that by canting the axis of the
> headtube for the steering fork backwards,
> [to be parallel to the aftward rake of the stern]
> the gravity force on the wheel would
> self-center it. Besides, I imagined that
> steering the FS with the tiller seemed
> natural.

Think 31' high speed forklift. with crew shooting overboard at
eachturn.
think ofthe acceleration during a gybe. the designyou drew is like
the a mark 1 car design.that was built and crashed on its first trial
run whilst avoiding a passing horse.

>
> >If the landsailing regatta goes ahead next
> > week I'll post you a photo of my new yacht "Pigs Might Fly".
>
> I can hardly wait. And, perhaps you have photos
> from prior years? I

I'll try and do a nice montage.
Cheers Paul

> if your building a landyacht put the single steering wheel at the
> front. trust me on this..

How do the stern wheels fail?
I imagined that by canting the axis of the
headtube for the steering fork backwards,
[to be parallel to the aftward rake of the stern]
the gravity force on the wheel would
self-center it. Besides, I imagined that
steering the FS with the tiller seemed
natural.

>If the landsailing regatta goes ahead next
> week I'll post you a photo of my new yacht "Pigs Might Fly".

I can hardly wait. And, perhaps you have photos
from prior years?

if your building a landyacht put the single steering wheel at the
front. trust me on this.. If the landsailing regatta goes ahead next
week I'll post you a photo of my new yacht "Pigs Might Fly". she's a
bit of a Micro on wheels.
cheers Paul