There called goat boats for a reason.. come up to birubi on a sunny Sunday morning when the swell is 2ft or smaller and see what a debacle that is..

Those pesky goat boats will eat anything - better check if your harness has a few nibbles out of it.

1st it was goat boats easily paddling onto any kind of mush-excuse-for-a-wave, then came the return of mini-mals/mals and now it's bloody kiters screaming in and grabbing and everything.. Where will it all end?? The average surfer might as well give it away I reckon..

You know those little one person kayaks....

Maybe on the flipside it comes down to living in harmony, we don't understand them and what they do and how they manouvre and vice versa. Imagine how other water users feel when we are zipping around- they might not understand how we work, something to think about...

PS Goatboats do seem to be universally despised tho....

Buell said...


Call me stupid but what the hell is a goat boat

They're a paddle ski - also known as an egg beater. Long before mals made a comeback and long before SUP made a re-emegence and long before kitesurfing was ever dreamed of - goat boats have been despised in the lineup.

I couldnt care how they work, but why oh why would someone try to use one of those things. I mean seriously.
I don't think i could think up a crapper sport. Except canoe polo. It's 2 teams of 5 goatboats in a swimming pool, and they try to chuck a water polo ball into a raised net thing.... exciting stuff....not.

But in the surf they call their waves like nobodys business, then proceed to nose dive/roll over/chicken out after about .5 of a second.

Sorry, must calm down. Breathe in...breathe out.

milko said...

There called goat boats for a reason.. come up to birubi on a sunny Sunday morning when the swell is 2ft or smaller and see what a debacle that is..

I thought they were called goat boats because you only get old goats of guys out on them in their dirty DTs/budgie smugglers/banana hammocks/euro man shorts

When Im out surfing I hate the goaters,
but ya gotta admit its funny as sh#t when they tip over and cant get back up.haaa heee haaaa he ha.
Like a turtle on its back.
You see their heads trying to pop up for precious air then go under again,haa hee haaa he,oooorrr its funny
"Look here comes a set and he's still upsidedown"HAAA HEEE HAAA HE HAAAA[}:)]
Dont see many these days,maybe all floating upsidedown out to sea.

Goat boats are bad, but the devil incarnate has got to be a jet ski. [}:)]

i recon that the last 3 days of wind have been sooooo gooode that little goat boat men dnt bother me

KIT33R said...

Hey Laurie, can we have a forum for Goatboats?

That would be popular, but for all the wrong reasons.

also whats more fun then charging past a goat boater at full speed with zero effor on a kiteboard... I enjoy it every time...

not complaining about the GBer just a heads up that these guys can really motor along and be on ya in a flash