Shamless promotion of my son's business

[Wayne Lundberg]

Being a member of SASSASS, I am making a shameless plug for my son's
business... design and manufacture of a surface sailing RC model - a boat on
land, if you will. A kite without a string, so to speak.

Wind, space and batteries for the radio instead of string, is all that is
required.

We have discovered that RC people are the kind of people that most
appreciate Lyle's innovation.

Take a look at www.rcsailcars.com for photos, specifications and prices.

(SASSASS = Sunny Acres Sailing Sipping and Soaring Society - no membership
required; just the attitude)

Wayne in Chula Vista, CA
Join the fun at Mesa College parking lot in San Diego on any Sunday
afternoon.

[Carl Farrington]

Wayne Lundberg wrote:
> Being a member of SASSASS, I am making a shameless plug for my son's
> business... design and manufacture of a surface sailing RC model - a
> boat on land, if you will. A kite without a string, so to speak.
>
> Wind, space and batteries for the radio instead of string, is all
> that is required.
>

I've looked at that site before. Now if those sails were only coated in
Solar Cells, and stored up electricity for when the wind died down....

[Wayne Lundberg]

Great idea!!!

"Carl Farrington" <carl@000compsup000.net> wrote in message
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> Wayne Lundberg wrote:
> > Being a member of SASSASS, I am making a shameless plug for my son's
> > business... design and manufacture of a surface sailing RC model - a
> > boat on land, if you will. A kite without a string, so to speak.
> >
> > Wind, space and batteries for the radio instead of string, is all
> > that is required.
> >
>
> I've looked at that site before. Now if those sails were only coated in
> Solar Cells, and stored up electricity for when the wind died down....
>
>

[CoyoteBoy]

do you get flexible solar cells? And then you'd need a motor. Then you'd
have to worry about wind resistance of the sails and extra weight. The
original idea is cool, I like them. The other may be harder to implement but
if done correctly could be even more fun.

JB



Wayne Lundberg <Waynelund@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:MHKIa.14906$3o3.1101993@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Great idea!!!
>
> "Carl Farrington" <carl@000compsup000.net> wrote in message
> news:bcvmti$ipg$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> > Wayne Lundberg wrote:
> > > Being a member of SASSASS, I am making a shameless plug for my son's
> > > business... design and manufacture of a surface sailing RC model - a


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[Rick Russell]

In article <bd1hl6$nf4$1@titan.btinternet.com>,
CoyoteBoy <j.buckle@btinternet.com> wrote:
> do you get flexible solar cells?

I remember some company in the late 80s was producing flexible plastic
solar cells via a simple press method.

Yeah, here we go:

http://www.uni-solar.com/cons_products_marine.html

However, I don't think you could cut the solar panels into sail
shapes; you would need some kind of custom-made triangular panel.

> And then you'd need a motor. Then you'd have to worry about wind
> resistance of the sails and extra weight.

I don't think resistance would be a problem, but weight might be.

Perhaps a more practical use of solar cells on a wind racer would be
to keep the internal receiver/servo batteries topped up.

Rick R.

[Joost Runsink]

Maybe you could just use you're motor as a generator to charge your battery
in wind conditions.

Joost


Rick Russell <rickr@is.rice.edu> wrote:
> In article <bd1hl6$nf4$1@titan.btinternet.com>,
> CoyoteBoy <j.buckle@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> do you get flexible solar cells?
>
> I remember some company in the late 80s was producing flexible plastic
> solar cells via a simple press method.
>
> Yeah, here we go:
>
> http://www.uni-solar.com/cons_products_marine.html
>
> However, I don't think you could cut the solar panels into sail
> shapes; you would need some kind of custom-made triangular panel.
>
>> And then you'd need a motor. Then you'd have to worry about wind
>> resistance of the sails and extra weight.
>
> I don't think resistance would be a problem, but weight might be.
>
> Perhaps a more practical use of solar cells on a wind racer would be
> to keep the internal receiver/servo batteries topped up.
>
> Rick R.
>

[noone]

"Wayne Lundberg" <Waynelund@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
news:LBHIa.13690$0v4.1125182@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

> Being a member of SASSASS, I am making a shameless plug for my son's
> business... design and manufacture of a surface sailing RC model - a
> boat on land, if you will. A kite without a string, so to speak.
>
> Wind, space and batteries for the radio instead of string, is all that
> is required.
>
> We have discovered that RC people are the kind of people that most
> appreciate Lyle's innovation.
>
> Take a look at www.rcsailcars.com for photos, specifications and
> prices.
>
> (SASSASS = Sunny Acres Sailing Sipping and Soaring Society - no
> membership required; just the attitude)
>
> Wayne in Chula Vista, CA
> Join the fun at Mesa College parking lot in San Diego on any Sunday
> afternoon.
>
>

Yes it is shameless, however we have known it was spam since the first
post. It's really starting to get old. There isn't that many new pics if
any at all from spam post to spam post.

At least if it had something new it might pass as informative and useful

[Eddy Matthews]

> > We have discovered that RC people are the kind of people that most
> > appreciate Lyle's innovation.
> >
> > Take a look at www.rcsailcars.com for photos, specifications and
> > prices.

Innovation? Sailcar?

What exactly is innovating about it? Why do you insist on calling it a
sailcar?

It's simply a landyacht, and they have been around for about 100 years or
more! Hardly innovating, and certainly NOT a sailcar as you keep wanting to
call it!

[Justin Mahn]

Perhaps he didn't know about the land yachts. Sailcar is just as
descriptive. Could you provide a link to your landyacht?

--
Justin Mahn
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"Eddy Matthews" <eddy.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> > > We have discovered that RC people are the kind of people that most
> > > appreciate Lyle's innovation.
> > >
> > > Take a look at www.rcsailcars.com for photos, specifications and
> > > prices.
>
> Innovation? Sailcar?
>
> What exactly is innovating about it? Why do you insist on calling it a
> sailcar?
>
> It's simply a landyacht, and they have been around for about 100 years or
> more! Hardly innovating, and certainly NOT a sailcar as you keep wanting
to
> call it!
>
>

[m]

Well it don't have a sail but I call it a LandYacht---- A 1970 Olds 98 <--
that's a lnad yacht!!! 19' and 2 ton of attitude.


"Justin Mahn" <gabrilPanties@tcainternet.com> wrote in message
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> Perhaps he didn't know about the land yachts. Sailcar is just as
> descriptive. Could you provide a link to your landyacht?
>
> --
> Justin Mahn
> remove Panties to reply
>
>
> "Eddy Matthews" <eddy.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:zIGJa.1031$5q2.109602@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net...
> > > > We have discovered that RC people are the kind of people that most
> > > > appreciate Lyle's innovation.
> > > >
> > > > Take a look at www.rcsailcars.com for photos, specifications and
> > > > prices.
> >
> > Innovation? Sailcar?
> >
> > What exactly is innovating about it? Why do you insist on calling it a
> > sailcar?
> >
> > It's simply a landyacht, and they have been around for about 100 years
or
> > more! Hardly innovating, and certainly NOT a sailcar as you keep wanting
> to
> > call it!
> >
> >
>
>