8th March 2009: Blokarts

One of the stands at the boat show was for blokarts: small wind-powered buggies that seem to be the new cool wind toy. They were offering free demos down near Papakura, so we drove down to have a go.

Sophie chases an evil yellow-sailed kart

These things are really good fun and remarkably fast, particularly when reaching across the wind. They're also much more stable than I thought they would be. I'd be pretty keen to own one if only I had a large expanse of sand or tarmac...

A few more photos here.