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Whilst it is very nice to receive letters from all you blokart-mad people out there - please
make use of the available blokart forums.
Hi,
I’ve just bought a Blokart
and after a wee taste at St Andrews I bought a second one. I figured that my friends would want to try it and I’d
never get my hands on it again. Would you post my email and name on the site with the location as Aberdeenshire. I’m trying to pull together a list of the Scots Karters. We have some good beaches up here both at St Andrews and on the Islands.
I’m just back from Ireland, sadly without the Kart. The beach at Castlegregory
on the Dingle peninsula is just perfect. The postmaster in the village and his lady are Blokarters
too.
Regards
Graham Dalzell
Hi, my name is Sergio and I live in Argentina (South America).
I’ve just buy a Blokart with a 3 meters sail, but I’m seeing that it would be
little for me because my weight is 95 Kg.
Now I’m trying to design a new sail of 4 meters or try to found someone used to buy.
Do you now someone tha could help me in this topic?
I think that I can improve both alternatives because here I have many places to make a new sail. The other alternative
is to buy a used one (to import a new one is to expensive here in Argentina.
Well, thank you s much for your time and for your help in advance.
Best Regards.
Eng. Sergio Ronchi
Anyone out there with a used/abused or damaged Blokart for sale?
Regards
James
just a short note and maybe a fix to the problem of the frustrated
Scottish member i also had the problem of a shorter mast top section as
time went on lost about 4 inches and the reason
being that the top mast
section was slipping into the second section of the mast due to the
collar on the top section
coming lose but not loose enough to notice.
Measure your top section against a new one and see if it has shifted and
if
so replace or get a new one if under warrentry.
If this is your case you will notice the difference in speed once the
full
height has been gained to bring the sail up to its original height.
may the wind always blow
regards Michael
south
coast blokarts
Adelaide Australia
A goodly site worth trying.
Having been forced to leave Cornwall over Easter I took the precaution of taking my Blokart with
me and I'm very glad to say it was a good move.
Near York is Elvington Airfield and it is just 2miles plus of heaven in
extreemly good condition. ( better than a lot of roads around here) There was over 17mph of wind there and was just
a blast and no early baths in the sea. The grass edge to the airfield came in handy for an emergency stop at times!! A warm
welcome by all the members was given me, the contact is Mike on 01472280643 or mobile 07733000818. The York Land Yacht Club
have use of the runway every other weekend. Well worth a visit.
All the best John Juleff
Dear Karter,
I have just had a very very windy day on St Andrews,
spending the majority of the day on two wheels and having great fun as part of the Scottish team training session, also
very frustrating though !!! as fast as I was going, Charlie or now Chic in his new POD with fancy designs at over 110Kilos
would still pass me, on our makeshift circuit I had to really cut the corner to catch up with him, really cut it by about
50M, anyway he was so far ahead he didn't see !! and then he probably wondered how I caught up with him, this was purely to
compare the length of his downhaul, then distance sheeted in, etc, etc - all were comparable apart from that he had
a POD and I didn't ......... then he would pull away again.
Anyway further scrutinising led me to notice that
between Donnie's pole and Chic's Pole, mine was about 3 inches shorter, maybe I should use a more nautical term and call
it mast, the length at the top of the sail was the same but really my sail was lower, I just wondered if your readers
or members could shed any light on this and does the length make a difference, maybe I could request a survey of the lengths
of each members mast to make a comparison, anyway further advice would be appreciated as I need something to make it a little
longer, cost the smile on Charlie (Chic's face) told me that length makes difference, do I have a shorter mast or a longer
sail, I did have a shinier helmet but that didn't make me go faster - all help and advice welcome.
Yours
Frustrated member of the Scottish Team
Hi,
I just had a look at the British Blokart Club website and I do like it a
lot. I am a blokartowner from the
Netherlands, working in Germany.
I like the logo from your club. Is this available as a bumper-sticker? If
yes, I would
be very happy if you could send me some for my sticker
collection.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards,
Hans
Brenkman
Hi Hans
Let's face it my friend - no sticker collection would be worth having without a British Blokart Club sticker.
Soon Hans,soon.
But wait ! look ! British Blokart Club mugs of great quality are here to own today !
Put the kettle on mother...
hi karter
please could you and your fine team explane how i should tune my kart for
different wind speeds
how tight should the battens be?
and just how much downhhaul should i have on ?
S-K
reply
Dear S-K
Yes, now then, err
There are many different ideas about all this but the generally accepted set ups are as follows:
Strong Wind
You want your sail to look flat so:
Battens not too tight
Outhaul tight
Downhaul tight as a tight thing.
Light Wind
Need to create some curvaciousness in your sail to drive it, so:
Battens tight in - tension one at a time and look up it to see smooth curve transition one batten to the next.
Outhaul loosish - get a finger in the tension straps
Downhaul firmly down but not max.
Sailing upwind downhaul on, sailing downwind downhaul off.
Now then there are those wise one's who say blokarts don't always obey the laws e.g. always keeping everything loose
works for some ?! and everything always about to snap works for others
I'd like as much response to this question as possible.
What do you do?
Karter
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