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A remote controlled model landsailer includes a wheeled vehicle having a sail supported on a mast with a fixed rig position, in which realistic heeling is produced by an outrigger structure including a transversely-mounted resilient wire having wheels at either end thereof, with the elasticity of th

A remote controlled model landsailer includes a wheeled vehicle having a sail supported on a mast with a fixed rig position, in which realistic heeling is produced by an outrigger structure including a transversely-mounted resilient wire having wheels at either end thereof, with the elasticity of the wire providing for realistic heeling of the vehicle while at the same time preventing the vehicle capsizing. The model landsailer is remote controlled, in one embodiment, with a single remote control radio channel which is utilized to control the position of the nose wheel of a three-wheel support structure, with the single channel radio controlled operation permitting all sailing maneuvers including heading up, jibes, tacking, coming about and runs, and with the flexible wire outrigger providing realistic visual feedback to the operator of the radio control unit. Features of the vehicle include single pivot steering, a mast which serves as an antenna, a fixed position lateen rig, a one piece slip pocket sail, and a boom and yard coupling which permits rotation about the longitudinal axis of these elements to permit sail shaping.

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A remotely controlled unattended land sailer, comprising: a wheeled vehicle having a body at least one sail, a mast mounted to said body for supporting said sail, a boom pivotally mounted to said mast, a sheet attached at one end to said body and at its other end to said boom for maintaining said sa

A remotely controlled unattended land sailer, comprising: a wheeled vehicle having a body at least one sail, a mast mounted to said body for supporting said sail, a boom pivotally mounted to said mast, a sheet attached at one end to said body and at its other end to said boom for maintaining said sail at a predetermined sail set to either side of the centerline of said vehicle; said vehicle having a single forward wheel and remotely controlled steering means for turning said wheel responsive to remote control signals; said vehicle having means for providing realistic heeling including a flexible outrigger mounted to said vehicle along a single axis transverse to the centerline of said vehicle for flexing in a plurality of planes, said outrigger having portions extending from either side of said vehicle, said outrigger portions comprising a flexible wire, said vehicle having a pair of wheels being in fixed spaced-apart relation attached respectively to the free ends of said outrigger portions; said wire being of a stiffness to prevent turnover of said vehicle for winds under a predetermined maximum and being of a stiffness to provide said vehicle with an amount of heel which causes said vehicle to approximate the sailing characteristics of waterborne sailboats during a tacking maneuver.