i warned you about hardie and his temper
no seriously thats messed up
what kinda windsurfer would ever speak to another in that manner
my opinion in this situation i would say that the phsyco abusing you should have used his eyes to see what you were doing obviously you were slowing down to catch the swell
isnt there a thing called a line up

GONE WITH THE WIND

DR FL

G'day,

Another contensious issue.

I know the scenario you're refering to, Yes we do get quite a few people who stall out and wait letting waves go by to try and pick and choose the waves as they are coming in.

Myself due to lack of skills I have 2 speeds out on the water, moving or not, stalling and waiting is not really an option.

You have raised your piont of view, and I do not condone the behaviour of the bloke who tried to prang you.

But being the devils advocate, looking from the other guys piont of view perhaps went way out back and picked up his swell line a long way out. Riding it in he finds some one waiting "in the line up" who is claiming the wave he lined up from "out back"

As I have pionted out I'm not the best sailer in the world so I go out back to try and line things up It browns me off when someone jibes onto the wave I've lined up half way on my trip back to the break, it's also frustrating when a guy is a stalling good 300mtrs in from you then claims your wave.

Like I said it's contensious and no doubt this will bring out some wonderfull views from everybody who thinks they are in the right.

What is unacceptable is the clown trying to hit you.

Alby


Plan for tomorrow.
Live for today

Hi all of you,
just to make clear, I was not stalling or waiting. I can understand, that it is annoying if someone is waiting for the best wave and lets through reasonable ones and it is also annoying if someone gybes in the wave you picked hundreds of meters out, but all that was not the case.
However, this was the only negative experience I made in Mandurah, so I keep on going there unless more people try to kill me. I always try to be friendly, because everthing makes more fun, if everbody is friendly.
Dr.F.

I've seen a lot of snakey moves at various places and it is great when the sailors get into a circle work mode and stack as you mentioned. places like gnarloo where the wave is long can handle a few sailors on the wave (one at centreys and one at tombies) as long as the down the line sailor doesnt get in the way of the upwind sailor doing a lip launch or something. usually the downwind sailor on the wave can make the wave shutdown for the upwind sailor, hence getting the wave to themselves - snake trick no 5. margarets is a bit harder to handle 2 sailors on one wave but I say 'sharing is caring', specially when i can get another good wave and can smack the lip a few times, why not take turns smacking it with someone else on the wave!

yeah my best ever party wave was with Veigard down at Margies. was on 4.7 and a logo wave. i think we each got about 4 bottom turns.

on the serious side i think each break should have its own rule wether stacking is acceptable or wether the guy who claims it out the back gets it. At many breaks stacking is ok if everyone joins the back of the que, but it only works if everyone does one or the other. Up at gnaraloo my mate got his head ripped off by a chick because he stalled and she caught it out back even though he was upwind. none of us stalled there ever again.
sorry elmo u might have to practice sailing in non planing conditions to help with chugging out back.

so which one of u mandurah guys looks most like a coffin cheater bikie and will voulenteer to become Mr. Plod and start thumpin dickheads who bring this sort of agro with them onto the water. Its simply not on. if u do drop in on someone, somehow, (it can happen) u should make a point of waving them on to the wave next time. You can earn lots of respect out on the water by waving ppl onto waves that would othewise be yours, especialy if the other sailer is a bit of a gumby or a grom or a real old fart.

if u plan to share a wave then if u r the downwind sailor make sure ur far enough downwind that u dont get speared in the head when the other guy goes for an aerial.

Bertie

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