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Welcome to NALSA's web site
You will find information here on the North American Land Sailing Association (NALSA), upcoming sanctioned events, US club information and landsailing in general.

NALSA is expanding its web presence to include a more interactive site. John Elsenlohr has set up a Yahoo Groups-based site. You have to join up to participate, but you can view the postings without being a member.

President's State of Dirtboating Address 2010 (2009) (2008)
aka, "A Letter From the President."

See the Upcoming Events page for information on future events.

America's Landsailing Cup 2012 Firsts:

Allen Wirtanen won NALSA Class III
Allen Wirtanen led Class NALSA IV
Jim Gluek, first in NALSA Class V
Dave Gluek, first in five square (FISLY Class 5)
Lester Robertson won Fisly Class 5 promo
Duncan Harrison, first Manta Twin.
Curtice Obi, first Manta Single.
Floyd White, won the Mini Class

2012 Results
2011 Results 2011 video
2010 Photos, 2010 Results, Event Review
2011 Holy Gale Results
2010 Holy Gale Video

Photos(also from speed trials)
Detailed 2009 America's Landsailing Cup results Photos

Photos from World Championships

See www.landsailing.co.uk for other U.S. happenings not covered on this site as well as excellent coverage of what is going on in the rest of the world (from a Kiwi and British perspective).

News:
Get out your slide rules and physics text books...On July 2, 2010 on El Mirage Dry Lake, Blackbird sailed directly down wind at a speed of 27.7 mph in a 10 mph wind to set a first record for the ratio of Boat Speed to true wind speed of 2.8. BlackBird was designed and built by the Thin Air Designs team (Rick Cavallaro and John Borton) and sailed by Rick.More information.

Greenbird set a new landsailing speed record. On March 26, 2009 as 40mph + winds canceled NALSA racing and sometimes totally obscured Ivanpah Dry Lake with blowing dust. Richard Jenkins piloted Ecotricity's Greenbird to a new land speed record of 126.2 mph (203.09 kph). Detailed Data
The same day, a new Blokart record was also set at Red Lake, AZ (62 mph, 100kph!) Pod and 2 meter sail.

Archive of past events

Detailed 2008 Americas' Landsailing Cup results (.xls Excel file)
Detailed 2007 Americas' Landsailing Cup results
2009 Gale Results
2007 Gale results
Recap from World Championships 2006

2002 Fisly/NALSA 8th Worlds Championship results and photos.

Get the results from the 2006 Holy Gale here. 

2001 speed trial results are now available.

2001 28th annual Americas Land Sailing Cup Regatta

   .  Results
   .  Dennis Bassano has written an excellent review of the event.
   .  Read a racers comments.... or look at some photos.

Pacrim 2000 Final scores and images 

News from the Nov 2000 speed trials.

Archive of past newsletters

1999 27th Annual Regatta results are still available.

NALSA's newsletters (latest is Spring 2006)

Speed and Distance Records, Attempts and Rules

Landyacht world speed record set. 126.2mph (March 2009)
Read the details here. Data Details

If you'd like to challenge the record holders read the NALSA Speed Record rules.

You can check the weather near your favorite dry lake or beach on the weather page.

Be sure to read Nord Embroden's Landsailing in America article.

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