Parking Lot Sailing?

Parking Lot Sails & Publications

P.O. Box 1195

Clifton, CO – 81520

Skateboard sailing, roller skate sailing, land sailing, and now parking lot sailing?

If you’ve been sailing on the water or ice (ice boats, ice-skate sailing) you know lee-side from windward, sailing to the point of wind or a broad reach, and have an idea as to how much faster than the speed of the wind you can sail; and, you know the awesome power of the wind. Today, the same familiarities can come from land sailing on roller skates and skateboards. Hence, anyone can realize the thrills of sailing anywhere where the wind blows, and where you can find a good surface, e.g. underutilized parking lots.

Here, we believe we are offering a sail design especially well suited for sailing on roller skates (quads or inline) and skateboards (esp. longboards) – on parking lot surfaces that we call a Parking-Lot Sail. It’s designed to use a combination of low cost materials you can find at your local hardware store, or to be enhanced by using more expensive nylon or Dacron sailcloths instead of hardware store poly-tarps for fabrication of the canopy.

The Parking-Lot Sail design is a great sail design, but our primary mission is to promote wind-based sports as alternatives for petro-based sports (see “REGATTA Format Example”). Yes, design your own sail, use a bed sheet or umbrella, or anyone’s sail design, and – if possible – make it yourself and not just buy an “outsourced” sail off of a shelf somewhere. This is a chance to have fun with a do-it-yourself project that can give you thrills to equal or exceed the thrills of riding a roller coaster – right there on one of your own local parking lots. Then, for more fun, tailor a parking lot Regatta as a fundraiser, or have a tailgated sailing party where everybody can take turns sailing even if there are only one or two sails available.

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