Land Sailing Links
From Around the World!
A nice description of the History of Land Sailing can be found using this WIkipedia Link
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A short list of Land Sailing Links was submitted by Bob Dill of the North American Land Sailing Organization (NALSA):
Nord Embroden's article "Landsailing in America" covers the 1950's to 1978.
http://www.nalsa.org/landsailing_in_america.htm
The paper written by Bob Dill on the "Iron Duck Project" in 2003 for the Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium broadly covers what it takes to go fast as well as a history of sailing speeds on dirt and ice.
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/08/tt/bobdill.pdf
"Richard Jenkins Greenbird Record" (2009) is covered well on the Greenbird Site:
http://www.greenbird.co.uk/land-record
Details of "Richard's Jenkin's Record Run" can be found at:
http://www.nalsa.org/MeasuremantReport/MeasuremantReport.html
NALSA (The North American Land Sailing Association) has held a speed event at Ivanpah Dry Lake around Thanksgiving since roughly 1990. This event is for all boats, not just the fastest groups. Speeds were first measured by timing trap and then radar and now by GPS.
NALSA.org can be located using this LINK
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