In Popular Culture
- Land sailing is featured in Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novel, Sahara, and also in its film adaptation. Blokarting featured in The Amazing Race 13, in episode 4.
- Sand sailing is featured as a means of desert transportation in Avatar: The Last Airbender, in episodes 30 and 31.
- The term "land yacht" is also used derisively for any large vehicle.
- Land sailing is featured in book three, Odalisque, of Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, the first part of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
- In The Dreamstone, The Urpneys used a land yacht twice, in 'Trouble with the Miners' and 'The Jolly Bird.'
- The British reality-television competition series Scrapheap Challenge featured land yachts in season 2, episode 4. One team created a dual-sail yacht, but failed to win.
- The American reality-television competition series Junkyard Wars featured land yachts in season 7, episode 3 "Sand Yacht". Two teams, each led by an expert land yachtsman, constructed small yachts from parts available in a junkyard. The team that won used an aluminium sail, supposedly the first time a metal sail was used for a land yacht.
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