Crash helmets are always worn and trainee pilots learn on special training yachts with extra safety features. At the Kent Landsailing Club new members are made very welcome and help is available with all aspects of this sport. Contact the club for any enquiries. We do not recommend that a newcomer to this sport builds a land yacht straight away. Land yachts need to be very strong and well balanced.
Spoke wheels are no good.
Go-kart wheels are too small. For something that has no engine, a land yacht is incredibly fast. The world record for a land yacht is 116 m.p.h., set in 1999 in the States. This machine was bigger than a conventional land yacht and used a solid vertical wing sail. Our Class 3 yachts are capable of peak speeds over 70 m.p.h. and Class 5 are only marginally slower.