.......Apparently there's a safety issue here ??
Obviously poleys have zero manoeuvrability when sailing with a fat-arse rig at breakneck speed.
Stupid kiters, don't they know.....
GPS-MEN CAN'T TURN.

"With teeth fully clenched tight, and with beads of perspiration dribbling down from the brim of his gath-hat.....
the GPS-man noticed the meter strapped to his bicep was red-lining."
"Suddenly,thru the mist of sweat, he noticed a lone kiter directly in his sights, straight on course."

There's only one thing to do in this situation. ^^^
lol.
First, adopt the poo-stance (if you aren't already in it).
Then, gently squeeze out the slippery hard line from the clutches of the hook....
and with the full force of your bum-muscles, dump the load.
Throw your feet to the sun, legs wide apart,
arch your helmetted-head back towards the water......
and butt-check to safety.
lol.
Just like that US pilot when he ditched his arse into the Hudson River and skidded to a halt.
No one died.
That was beautiful.

waveslave said...

.......Apparently there's a safety issue here ??
Obviously poleys have zero manoeuvrability when sailing with a fat-arse rig at breakneck speed.
Stupid kiters, don't they know.....
GPS-MEN CAN'T TURN.

"With teeth fully clenched tight, and with beads of perspiration dribbling down from the brim of his gath-hat.....
the GPS-man noticed the meter strapped to his bicep was red-lining."
"Suddenly,thru the mist of sweat, he noticed a lone kiter directly in his sights, straight on course."

There's only one thing to do in this situation. ^^^
lol.
First, adopt the poo-stance (if you aren't already in it).
Then, gently squeeze out the slippery hard line from the clutches of the hook....
and with the full force of your bum-muscles, dump the load.
Throw your feet to the sun, legs wide apart,
arch your helmetted-head back towards the water......
and butt-check to safety.
lol.
Just like that US pilot when he ditched his arse into the Hudson River and skidded to a halt.
No one died.
That was beautiful.

NO they shouldn't be banned!

They should be smart enough to realise that they are risking lives.

The other night at Melville one lone Kiter ventured up into the Poley area right where everyone was starting thier downwind run, why?

If you want really flat water you could go way upwind in the shallows where the windsurfers don't go, but stay far enough upwind not to cause problems.

yeh well and he called me on my spelling to is he liek the forum nazi here or something lolz

yes

waveslave said...

.......Apparently there's a safety issue here ??
Obviously poleys have zero manoeuvrability when sailing with a fat-arse rig at breakneck speed.
Stupid kiters, don't they know.....
GPS-MEN CAN'T TURN.

"With teeth fully clenched tight, and with beads of perspiration dribbling down from the brim of his gath-hat.....
the GPS-man noticed the meter strapped to his bicep was red-lining."
"Suddenly,thru the mist of sweat, he noticed a lone kiter directly in his sights, straight on course."

There's only one thing to do in this situation. ^^^
lol.
First, adopt the poo-stance (if you aren't already in it).
Then, gently squeeze out the slippery hard line from the clutches of the hook....
and with the full force of your bum-muscles, dump the load.
Throw your feet to the sun, legs wide apart,
arch your helmetted-head back towards the water......
and butt-check to safety.
lol.
Just like that US pilot when he ditched his arse into the Hudson River and skidded to a halt.
No one died.
That was beautiful.

sounds a bit painful, this "testicular braking" method....

elmo said...

waveslave said...

.......blah blah blah

... the auto eject system in my rig regularly fires of prematurely

Elmster there is a nasal spray thing advertised on telly that they reckon fixes that problem.
Else give it a good hand shandy before the first date

too much info.

echunda said...

It would be a sad day when a group of people are banned from an area.

How about putting signs up warning both sail and kiters of the dangers of sharing an area.

The only problem then would be funding and approvals from local councils.

Echhy I know waveslave, and though most seabreeze forumers would not believe this he's not a bad bloke, and he loves stirring (and we all over do it sometimes me included). I think he's having a go at our preciousness and our inability to be manouvreable at speed, which are true. However, Slave has never come over to our speed spot and done his thing because he has the right to, he has never put us at risk therefore he has acted responsibly, so Give the Guy some CREDIT!!! Remember Responsibilities come before Rights. In all of life one must act responsibly first such as obey the laws and keep others safe, before they exercise their rights. I agree banning is not a good thing, this needs to be a voluntary thing ... we are both helping each other out here if we keep each other safe. Mandurah is blessed in that it has a huge Estuary with the luxury that the two sports have at least 2 equally good beaches, where each sport can do their own thing, and windsurfers not stuff it up for kiters and vice versa. The beach they have is safer for kiting with more sideshore winds, and no major obstacles close to shore, we voluntarily gave it up, and ask windsurfers not to go there. I'll probably get massacred for supporting Slave, but if we don't argue fairly then our arguments have little weight!!

I had a big-ass turtle (?tortoise?) not giving way at Dutchies on Thursday when hanging on and only just in control --- but then again he probably had right of way.

At about 1m or more across he was a hazard that just wouldn't see sense and move on. In the rough conditions he was quite hard to see and he was loitering just out from the reef.

Could have been messy

Turtle nets. Turtle nets with poles that stick up with crime scene tape between them, and thugs on jet skis committing the crimes vis: bashing errant kiters and freestylers who dare to intrude.

you guys can't steer/swerve at 35 knots???

Rider5 said...

No, just the ocean

I definitely agree

Pork Hunt said...

yeh well and he called me on my spelling to is he liek the forum nazi here or something lolz

Zat you trollingboyo? Looks like the same sort of gibberish, only less attitude.

Mark _australia said...

SmellySkater said...

lol

before you come into a WS versus kiter topic maybe you should decide which is cooler.... seeing as thought that is all you have posted about

Hey it was funny although I don't agree that it's right I still have a sense of humor.

I've been learning to windsurf all weekend, I've been really lucky that windsurfers are great people, already I've been given a board to learn on until I'm ready for a smaller board, also I have a mast and boom lent to me, I'm going to buy a sail tomorrow a second hand wave sail

I'm not about what's cool I think your misinterpreting what I write

Just when it gets over 18-23knots,,,

Well said Nebs