First sail of the season out at Hillarys, there were 3 kiters out there. I really can't see this place handling much more than 2/3 Kiters. Is this going to be a problem as the season progresses? I mean are we going to see 10/15 Kiters out there mid-season? If so that place will be virtually unsailable. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.

nebbian said...

I just thought of something really evil...

50 metres of glass-coated line, attached to your mast tip.

An ultra-stable, single line kite that auto-zeniths very easily, coloured bright orange, with a couple of streamers hanging off it.

Instant exclusion zone!

If only you used your genius for good instead of evil[}:)]

Zed said...

I've been training the seals, showing them pictures of kiters and beating them with a stick at the same time. They've responded well.

All this talent and genius misappropriated by the devil[}:)]

whippingboy said...

Fortunately I sail south of the river.

Down at Woodies it's common to have 40-60+ kiters, and 8-12 windsurfers.

They stay in their bit we stay in ours, and there are parts we share

The only problem is when someone new shows up, but they soon learn

Where's Woodies?

yes, and anywhere not covered by a coloured box is where your car will get smashed up and broken into

the kiters can have woodies, it is not flat enough to be flat and there is no waves

Just superglue a razor edge on the top two meter of your sails luff panel. As you go past you simple cut the lines....Haha.

qldsalty said...

Just superglue a razor edge on the top two meter of your sails luff panel. As you go past you simple cut the lines....Haha.

Yeah, and when you wipe out in the path of a wave, and you have to grab the mast to save your gear....duhhh...

Zed said...

First sail of the season out at Hillarys, there were 3 kiters out there. I really can't see this place handling much more than 2/3 Kiters. Is this going to be a problem as the season progresses? I mean are we going to see 10/15 Kiters out there mid-season? If so that place will be virtually unsailable. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.

they (kiters) normally stop by as part of an outer reefs downwinder they do....

a few do sail upwind from the poo to sail it,

the problem with conjestion here is that the kiters 'tend' to SNAKE the break to pieces, because they can, if they took more time to sail futher back and share the small wave more, it would work better.... unfortunatley i have never seen this happen.

U will normally find though that once the poleys get upto 3 or more , and it stats to get clutterred with the kites, they usually move on.....

whippingboy said...

Fortunately I sail south of the river.

Down at Woodies it's common to have 40-60+ kiters, and 8-12 windsurfers.

They stay in their bit we stay in ours, and there are parts we share

The only problem is when someone new shows up, but they soon learn

For the most of the part the RED zone is just people travelling to the orange zone, I haven't noticed any real agro in the red part, I think most kiters give the polies a fair bit of respect there. I don't really think kiters and windsurfers really mix well in the orange zone.

evlPanda said...

What is with Perth?


Just asking.

And tell me you don't have to carry your kit down to the red box while the kiters float to the nearby green box? Looks like a beautiful spot to sail.

there is a carpark at the front of the green box and a carpark at the right hand end of the red box, so you dont have to carry gear too far.

the orange box used to be a premier speed run and is still not too bad in the right wind. unfortunately the sanddunes have built up high enough to create a small wind shadow.
The kiters love it because its dead flat, some of them just dont know how to share

Yes its probably not the greatest spot, it is however convenient

Oompa Loompa said...

i have been following this forum a bit and have noticed that you zed like to post places you sail

have you stopped to consider that maybe if you keep posting about these places on a public forum that it may get busier?

also think about the locals who sail there all the time. not just on the weekends but there are people who sail there during the week

its a small place and in my opinion cant really handle more than 8 windsurfers let alone kiters

we don't have that problem in QLD. the more the merrier.

It is not that bad... just that Woodies (and Crazy Waves, a winter wavesailing spot) is close to a couple of sh!t areas where there is a fairly high percentage of waste of space oxygen thieves who should be shot. Shallow end of the gene pool sorta area, unfortunately close to a beach

The rest of the metro coastal strip rarely sees car breakins during the day

Oh yeah it was! The development going in (to **** the windsurfing up) is already increasing prices there tho'

Roughly a 3x1 in bad street was $90K 5 years ago and $250K now ... after the prices dropped recently... maybe peaked at $300K a year ago (?)