Ocracoke Land Sailing

I've been around watching Paul ( http://paulandpiper.blogspot.com/ ) get his bike car converted to a sailcar, and that has led to great fun zipping around town on this head-turning creation. When the first fall winds started gusting through town, Paul called me and invited me out to the Hank Anderson Park west of Carrboro.

Paul heads down the bike lane on North Greensboro Street.



Carrboro is a bicycle friendly town, with great bike lanes. Too bad more trucks don't occasionally take out the overhead branches. The mast rig on the bike car is 13 feet tall, and it does brush a few branches, but his clearance beats some of the taller trucks, so they do a pretty good job pruning the industrial way.

A short video I shot Of Paul Van Ness sailing his homemade Bike Car in the Carrboro park parking lot.



YouTube - Sailing the VanNess BikeCar



Later we took the rig to Ocracoke Island and had the length of the island and a stiff breeze to propel us.



Finally, we took out the stops and had a tear down this narrow dock at the coast guard station.