Hi - Looking for windsurfing trolley recommendations.
Thanks !

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gilihilli said..
Hi - Looking for windsurfing trolley recommendations.
Thanks !

Me too, they just closed a beach access around here and the walk is way too long on foot ...

Trolly design most FNQ windsurfers used to get their gear from the wharf to the rigging area.Just slip your board between the cross bars, sails etc on top and away you go, different wheels to suit aplication I guess. Doesn't look flash but very simple and worked a treat.


A quick glimpse @ 01:15 of trolly in action

srtgumbee said..
Back in the 90s when I started windsurfing I was too young to drive a car so I made a trolley out of an old pram that was in the basement.

Fast Forward to present day and during our first covid lockdown, we were allowed out of our house for exercise so long as we didn't drive a car. So I made a trolley/trailer out of my kids pram/buggy with the intent of isolating myself in the water! It was not to be though as the lockdown rules changed and watersports were not allowed.

Once the lockdown finished, I did make use of the new trolley which helped get to a windsurf location that was 5km from the carpark.

A local windsurfer made a video of it. Intro to the trolley is here (if the link works). The video time should be approx 9mins in.

For use of slalom gear on the trolley you can goto 29mins into the video

Great video

Mark _australia said..
Firiebob is onto it, doesn't need to anywhere near as hard as many people make it.


(1)
Pair of BMX bike forks with wheels, weld a bar across the top. Done.

(2)
Old style golf buggy that is basically an inverted vee with an axle at the apex.
Done.

Its that easy.

Welding is hard ... if you don't do how to do it. But 5 cm PVC pipes will do ... bit tricky to put the wheels on but a hole in the PVC for the wheels axle should work well enough ...

The hard bit is none of those ^^ ...

The type of wheels you use, depends on the type of ground you need to travel over and the distance you travel. Sand tends to need wide flat plastic wheels. Rugged ground needs rubber wide wheels. Roadway/path should use narrow rubber. If you have to travel any serious distance, the size of the wheel will matter.

=> the hard bit is deciding which style to use, or just make all types.

this is my super dodgy Bunnings special effort. Made in about 20mins for a Lake Walyungup mission which looked like happening, then didn't then did (sort of). A couple of 90deg angle brackets screwed to treated pipe and some Bunnings wheels is all. Was low profile (not wide) as many hard core spots in WA are through bush. The thin wheels area great in bush but really crap in mud...which was Walyungup. In hindsight I would put protectors over the uprights as weird gust managed to skewer my sail on them..anyone that really cares can see the video of buggy and sail death in action at the video below sails dies on buggy at timestamp 1:45 (I bought this sail from the slow one 2 days earlier). Buggy did however rescue other sailors gear (twice) with a 2km walk in on sand. (however could have done with a lot wider wheel base for that). One project in the many is making an adjustable width wheel base buggy and or double/tank wheels for mud. So few sailing days that justify this means its way back in the queue of stuff to do.

We've done a couple of carts for transporting fully rigged sails to the beach (pull cart 200m and the bike cart 800m).
The pull cart (Cartzilla Mark I) could take 2-3 sails and 2 boards and the bike cart (Cartzilla Mark II) 2 sails & 2 boards.
It's so convenient to have fully rigged sails ready to go (I'm pretty lazy).
Joe
(PS avoiding crosswinds on the way to the beach is highly recommended!)

I use my Yedo Cart, which was made for transporting kayaks see below, to cart all my gear to the beach. Just put it under the midsection of the upside down board in a Dakine board bag and strap it on, and load everything else on top. Use handle on board bag to pull it.