When Ted Phillip opens the curtains in the morning and finds a good old Manawatu westerly blowing, he is in heaven.
His celebrations don’t go down well with those who aren’t his accomplices in the land-sailing sport known as blokarting.
“You don’t have many friends,” he said. “People say, `the bloody wind in Palmerston North’.”
Not Phillip. He packs his sleek 29kg kart into the boot of his car and heads for Coronation Park, the Sanson sports ground or Himatangi and Foxton beaches. Sometimes a secondary runway at Ohakea will be opened for them, or a Massey University car park  … More
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