New Zealand hasn't earned a reputation as an incubator for innovative outdoor adventure sports for nothing: bungee jumping, kite boarding, Zorbing (read rolling down a hill strapped inside a giant ...

What is a blokart … it is a three wheeled kart powered by the wind using a sail. Blokarts are a Kiwi invention, developed in 1999 by Paul Beckett. With a background in hang-gliding and land sailing, ...

The blokart is a cool-looking piece of driving apparatus, but what is it? A kart? A plane? Both? At first glance, we see that there are no pedals, no steering wheel and no brakes, all of which we ...

The 2024 Blokart World Championship at Ivanpah Lake, near Las Vegas, with a giant solar farm as a backdrop. The “Holy Grail” of Blokarting brought pilots from around the world, to a dusty dry lake in ...

Sailors from around the world will take to the tarmac of the Ōhakea Air Base and Sanson for the 2022 Blokart New Zealand and World Championships. Blokarting is a New Zealand invention, created in 1999 ...

A group of land sailing enthusiasts gather for some informal racing at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, R.I., on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The group, from Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire, use ...

THEIR new track might be an overgrown former Australian football oval now, but come June the Central Queensland Blokart Club hopes to be racing land yachts. A short-term lease has been signed with ...

Tomorrow, the Central Queensland Blokart Club will be holding a public open day. Anyone interested in exploring the world of blokart land sailing can see the machines in action and take one for a test ...

Blokart racing may be decidedly lesser known than its onwater relative but in Bermudian Tristan Loescher, the island has a star in the rapidly-growing sport. Based in New Zealand, Loescher recently ...

WESTPORT — Dave Lussier loves ocean sailing. And still does. He's done it for more than three decades, on both double and triple hulls. But when it comes to getting an adrenaline rush for the Fall ...