The silence is deafening

Over the Years the State and National organisations have had their up's and downs. One thing Ive always seen with 99% of VOLUNTEERS is their passion and commitment to what their doing. Ive seen many knee jerk reactions by councils over the years and this grass roots organisation with bugger all capital goes in and takes on councils.... Ever tried to take on a council in a dispute? The other option is we would have been restricted to one or two beaches just like JET-skis. We are more likely to cause injuries to other beach goers..?..?...

We have a price rise. Go out for a night on the town, or dont just one night...... There's your insurance for the year. Without going into detail WE as kitesurfers got slammed by some payouts as already stated. With the increase of beginners every year, If you like the sport, you have 2 options:
Say something to reckless kiters at you local, and join a cool organisation that will only benefit from your help and imput.(my car rego was $425 for a year, no property insurance)
OR, say nothing to idiots, see near misses and get pissed off that your local just got banned.

How often do you guys change your kites?

My guess is that most of us are changing our kites every second year at least, assuming that you have only one kite (that wouldn't be true for many) that's 800-1000 a year. Even if you only change every third that's still $500-700/yr.

In that respect $120/yr to make sure that not only are you represented at the table if your beach is up for restrictions and that you don't spend the next 10 years of your life paying for a mistake (should you make one) isn't bad if you ask me.

I think there are a lot of people missing the point here, the point isn't the cost, it is the increase. If everyone rolls over and says yes please sir, can I have another (increase)......Who will be still insured if it doubles next year, who is happy to pay $250, I am guessing fewer, how about $500 the year after, then a $1000, you can see where this is going.....

Are people still moaning about this???

FFS...

Support your local WAKSA or state association. If you don't want to pay then shut up and stop flapping your gobs.

It's 125$ people. Yeah its increased. But so has most things in life these days. Please if you don'[t want to pay then keep your thoughts to yourself. It's your choice and it really is old news.

Juddy and the Waksa mob do a good job.

I guess they are thoughts developed by a lack of kiting and an increase of boredom. Quite a lot of posts from mid life crisis types who are 'living the dream'. Just ask Mr 'Pioneer of Waveriding' who pisses and moans about most things kite related including the increase of subs for WAKSA.

I recently got my own insurance for teaching for the upcoming season. Wasn't cheap but now I have peace of mind. Insurance sucks, but unfortunately its part and parcel of today's society.

I purchased my new kite today. Of subject i know but im very happy.
As a carpenter my public liability insurance is $720 a year just in case i drop my hammer on someones foot. $120 a year to kite at my local and support waksa CHEEEEEEEEEEEEP AS BROOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

puppetonastring said...

dbabicwa said...

$65 is not bad for the insurance. 10 times increase is not so good. But let's see in about 6 months time. Fingers crossed no 3rd party incidents...

$65 to $125 is not ten times.

We were paying something like $5 (now, that's cheap:) for the insurance last year. This is 10 times.

No one is questioning the Waksa mob...They do a great job.

TurtleHunter said...

spreader said...


$65 for $10M personal to $20M event coverage is (and always has been) ridiculously cheap.

was'nt there an event up north last year that charged extra for insurance, exmouth i think ?????

There was but not this year although I am sure most will be back just to kite
Insurance sucks and they get you from every angle. In Exmouth the insurance covered you if you hurt yourself at an event and the club was covered for public liability.

sweet, thanks for clearing that up.

hookworm and others - a lot of the info that you are asking about is available (and lots of it has been for a long time)


AKSA AGM minutes are here http://aksa.com.au/Default.aspx?pageId=655513
AKSA Financial reports are here aksa.com.au/Default.aspx?pageId=655512

KBV minutes should be available, but Campbell is out of the country, have you tried contacting them?
www.kbv.org.au/index2.htm

The AKSA events application form is here aksa.com.au/Nationals

AKSA insurance policy info is here with links to the documentation
aksa.com.au/Default.aspx?pageId=752873

As always if anyone has any questions please email [email protected] and I will attempt to answer them. On this forum it is difficult to determine what the actual question is.

Regards
Gav
AKSA Public Officer, Treasurer and Administrator

RPM said...


I guess they are thoughts developed by a lack of kiting and an increase of boredom. Quite a lot of posts from mid life crisis types who are 'living the dream'. Just ask Mr 'Pioneer of Waveriding' who pisses and moans about most things kite related including the increase of subs for WAKSA.

I haven't said anything yet!