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I've been poking around some big boat websites and have noticed there is little
to no information regarding the potential hazards and risks involved in moving
across a dry lake bed at speeds in excess of 80 mph with your butt hanging less
than a foot off the ground while being blown by high winds in limited visiblity.
Heck, that sounds like fun to me, but are there any reports of accidents and
their potential causes?

Jerry

Mon Jul 6, 2009 6:22 pm

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I've been poking around some big boat websites and have noticed there is little to no information regarding the potential hazards and risks involved in moving...	Jerry Frost gypsy_triker	Jul 6, 2009 6:23 pm
I've heard some terrible stories about ice boat crashes and the reasons were steering failure (hit shore), operator inexperience and collisions with other ice...	chga_1999	Jul 6, 2009 6:58 pm
Accidents are rare on dry lake beds in the US. Beach racing on smaller confined area's is a different story. Most of the guys in big boats race. They have...	johhnysrocket2003 johhnysrocke...	Jul 6, 2009 7:08 pm
... Collision is the main hazard. I know of one landsailor fatality when a motorcycle ran into him. If I recall the story correctly, the motorcycle rider was...	Tom Speer tspeer007	Jul 7, 2009 5:39 am
Tom That was a most insightful reply. I'm a bit surprised that kind of information is not readily available and shared on the nalsa site and others. I think...	Jerry Frost gypsy_triker	Jul 7, 2009 1:47 pm
Tom You mentioned, "Mast flutter can be prevented by mass-balancing the mast so the center of gravity is on or ahead of the pivot axis, but almost nobody does...	Jerry Frost gypsy_triker	Jul 9, 2009 4:42 pm
... Weight in the leading edge on or an arm projecting ahead of the leading edge. Due to the side-to-side movement of the rig from slack or stretch of the...	Tom Speer tspeer007	Jul 10, 2009 5:10 am

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