We've had road rage, surf rage & now fish rage.
Certainly sounds like harrassment, if not assault and more.
Follow up with water police & further if necessary.

NOT GOOD!

sounds pretty chronic and the final actions unwarranted, but you did say they were there first.

how hard would it have been to give em a wide berth.

hey, i resemble that comment!

next time keep a BASEBALL bat handy!!!!!1[}:)]

30 Knot day we had recently there was a bunch of bogans in their halfcabin dropping crab nets right where we were gybing. They were each sucking on a can of beer and looked like they hadn't a clue.

And yes we were there first.

hey knotboard ya knob, go back and read my comment, I refferred to them being there first, and If you cant take from my writings Im about equal rights on the water, somethings up. Im kinda tongue in cheek about the rod snapping stuff, but you know what, if some fisherman purposefully tried to cause trouble, I wouldnt back down, nature of the beast.

I dig fishing, nothing annoys me more than if I was fishing and some clowns rocked up on their jetski's, or parked their car within 30m and insisted on playing their music at 100dB.

Hey qwerty, nobody out there gives a ratsass about minority sports, simple, I raced motocross and supercross for 15 yrs, all I ever heard was that it never makes tv, why? because to those that are not into it, it is boring to watch. Windsurf racing is quite dull to watch, wavesailing doesnt mean much to joe average because he doesnt know the athletes, and cant relate to the sport. TV is designed for the masses, because the masses watch tv.

However, speed sailing would catch the public eye, you need people to see it on the news and say " wholly crap, did you see how fast those guys were going".

The sports themselves are also much to blame, Ive been involved on many occassions with athlete manaagement getting tv exposure for minority sports, mainly downhill mountain biking, it is really quite easy to get the news coverage at least, but the networks will not go looking for a story, they will however suck anything up like a big huge sponge! So, my trick was killer press releases, followed up with phone calls, then arranging press days.

Now for windsurfing to get exposure in oz, someone needs to do this.

This is off topic but was raised in this thread, sorry.

The old adage of TV being the opiate of the masses has never been more true.

Scientific studies have shown that your brain is in a similar state when watching TV as sleeping, which I guess makes a lot of sense when you consider how boring most programs are. Yet another rehash of people losing weight crossed with Survivor crossed with Big Brother? No thanks, I'll pass

So why don't we have real edge of your seat excitement blasting out from the TV all the time? Simple. T.V. is a modern form of meditation. It's brainwashing, pure and simple, driven by advertising dollars and greed.

Here's an experiment to try: Go without TV for a month, then watch a full commercial break. You'll come out reeling from the visual and auditory assault that is commercial advertising. Yet people who watch it every day don't even notice how their choices are being affected by subtle manipulation... even their total world view is changed by it. It's insidious. It's addictive. It's a drug.

Do yourself a favour and switch off the TV.

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Originally posted by qwerty
anyway, we could all talk all day about why sailing is not on TV. I'd rather go sailing

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Me too

that little stretch of water at "the train" next to the sandbank is actually a 40 knot speed limit shipping channel.
it is also very narrow (you could cast from one side to the other easily)
if these guys were fishermen they would have left immediatly a few windsurfers turned up, as the target fish species on the broadwater would bugger off in that clear shallow channel on the first few passes.
which leads me to believe that they were "boaties wetting a line"
not fishermen! big difference, fishermen also value their rods as highly as we value our windsurfing equipment, so using them as whips and canes would indicate these blokes were just p1ssed off that the windsurfers turned up spoiling their serenity and casting at the boys deliberately is just malicious.

anyway it's happened before and it will happen again nothing much can be done about it but chuckle about the visualisation of sonic and the chairman being whipped by a couple of old testy boaties!

a vision i hope i don't dream about!

either way, apart from the odd shark and ray, there are no fish in there to catch? The only fish these desperate people catch are 3 inch long whiting, bream, and toadies. As far as crab pots go at the broadwater, who wants to eat a crab that has been feeding on engine oil and house boat turds it's entire life

yes - even crabs enjoy a rock'n'roll chokito

Regarding the comments made earlier about who should be where.
A vessel fishing OR anchored has precedence over a sailing vessel, without even considering the speed of the boards involved. If they are bogans/a..eholes then it shouldnt be hard to be better than them? You must be careful that these situations dont escalate and result in a requirement for windsurfers to get a recreational skippers ticket to make sure they know the rules! (not sure of your qland boating rules?)

hey guys, windfishing is a real sport...

www.americanwindsurfer.com/articles/gone-windfishing-a-very-big-fish-story/

WE HAVE A PROBLEM !!!!!

I am not really happy that such a thing has happened !!! especially at my favourite mud hole !

I was told by a certain Green Coloured Leader IN windsurfing circles that yes it is the gold coast and it is busy and we ALL HAVE TO SHARE WHAT IS TOO OFFER !!!

if these guys are boaties and anchored in the Main Shipping chanel and causing distress to ther sailing vessels passing by then they are in breach of the regulation to the General safety obligation as per Qld Gov Act transport operations ( marine safety )

NOW - there are assalts involved too !
this is getting ugly .
Sonic and Chairman i hope you are both ok !!! you guys don't deserve this at all, i know both you blokesw and your good guys !

i hope police have followed through on what has happened !

gcmoz

moz by the sound of it they were standing on the sandbar, boat was anchored.

I think you need to have a cup of tea, Im sure it was only a rare occurance, lots of people sharing common grounds or water, bound to have little tiff's everynow and then.

It makes life exciting!

oh really, I didnt know that, I did hear of it happeneing a few years back, it led to a throwing of a beer bottle, followed by some fistycuffs, ask Neil Brown, he knows the story.

Maybe we should offer tea to the fishermen, you know, tea and sympathy.

mmm, well I guess it is a bit of a problem that will probably get worse before better.

Isnt there a big plan in for a reclaim of all that area out to the bar? That will certainly stuff things up.

Im sure the council on the goldy wont be satisfied till it is concrete from end to end!